Museology & Heritage Studies

'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide...

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and...

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was asc...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and...

This book focuses on a forgotten placethe Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation pr...

Museums throughout the world are under increasing pressure in the wake of the 2008/2009 economic recession and the many pressing social and environ...

Interpreting Heritage is a practical book about the planning and delivery of interpretation that will give anyone working in the heritage sector th...

Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farm...

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Cana...

Most museums collections contain a wide variety of natural materials, and a diverse range of knowledge is necessary to keep so many types of object...

Culture in Crisis The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of ar...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

This book explores the complexities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in contemporary Australia.It unpacks the continuation of a pervasive...

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and th...

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and communit...

This monograph uses the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale as a vehicle to examine the development of international contemporary art trends ...

This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, w...

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits ...

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trad...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (19041975) developed a new and multi-faceted metho...

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and int...

This book explores the relationships between empire, natural history, and gender in the production of geographical knowledge and its translation be...