Museology & Heritage Studies

This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship makes a contribution towards building a museum perspective of innovation that takes into consideratio...

Plastic objects are included more than ever in museums and galleries collections these days, but these items can start to deteriorate when they a j...

X-radiography of textile objects reveals hidden features as well as unexpected components and materials. This non-destructive technique throws ligh...

Working with Young Children in Museums makes a major contribution to the small body of extant research on young children in museums, galleries and ...

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a blockbuster exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton G...

The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the inven...

Museums and public art have traditionally taken significantly different approaches to customer engagement, but throughout history they have also wo...

Over the last twenty years the educational role of the museum has come to be central to its mission. There are now far more educational opportuniti...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth ...

Having been mistakenly perceived as a follower of Salvador Dalí, Catalan surrealist painter and writer Àngel Planells (19011989) has passed through...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...

Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices considers how museums can adapt their exhibits, programs, and organizational structures to the divers...

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, sig...

Curating Under Pressure breaks the silence surrounding curatorial self-censorship and shows that it is both endemic to the practice and ubiquitous....

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

What does heritage mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects, landscapes, people and ideas are v...

This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for Italy by exporting literal...

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the...

How does museum location shape the interpretation of an art object by critics, curators, art historians, and others? To what extent is the value of...

Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few ...

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the...

This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from th...

Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. These heritages of ...

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts orga...

A Representation of Nationhood in the Museum examines how the National Museum of Korea, as a national repository of material culture and the states...

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciousl...

Sustainability in an Imaginary World explores the social agency of art and its connection to complex issues of sustainability. Over the past decade...

The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design. Placing a specific emphasis on social responsibility, ...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

Saving Spaces offers an historical overview of the struggle to conserve both individual parcels of land and entire landscapes from destruction in t...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecur...

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variet...