Museology & Heritage Studies

Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their roles in con...

Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - The Museum Makers is a fascinating and moving family story.'Rachel Morris is on...

Debates about the restitution of cultural objects have been ongoing for many decades, but have acquired a new urgency recently with the intensifica...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine th...

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of proces...

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movementand a bold vision for its ...

Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum, with a rich history of scholarship, research, and illuminating e...

The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the ...

Determining the authorship and originality of artistic works is essential for fully enjoying art, and for the correct functioning of the market and...

For well over a half century, Norman Whitten has spent a third of his professional life undertaking ethnography with Afro-Latin American and Indige...

A stunning new range of stationery produced in association with The National Gallery.Each title contains 20 full-colour postcards of outstanding ar...