Museology & Heritage Studies

Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationa...

It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. ...

Theatre of the Sphere is Luis Valdezs exploration of the principles that underlie his innovations as a playwright, teacher, and theatrical innovato...

Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before. A va...

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

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material...

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done...

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals ...

Since the 1990s, heritage studies has emerged as a distinct academic field, and practices and rhetoric drawn from mainstream corporate management a...

The remarkable success of the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage is borne out by the fact that...

What is the relationship between creativity, cultural heritage institutions and copyright? Who owns culture and cultural heritage? The digital age ...

Artists in the Archive explores the agency and materiality of the archival document through a stunning collection of critical writings and original...

A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the ...

The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global...

A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed inte...

Heritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula are developing rapidly. Museums and heritage sites are symbols of shifting national identities, and a wa...

A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan investigates the politics of cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan between 2008 an...

This unique collaboration between scholars, practitioners and Muslim artists profiles emerging forms of contemporary British Muslim art, prompting ...

Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent...

The first anthology of feminist art exhibition essays and museum publications, providing an exciting and valuable overview of recent developments i...

This groundbreaking volume explores how culture produced in Spain, from the nineteenth century to the present, both reflects and shapes ways of und...

Difficult Heritage and Immersive Experiences examines the benefits involved in designing and employing immersive technologies to reconstruct diffic...

Preserving collections of analogue video art is no easy task. Not only must collection caretakers ensure that their magnetic tapes are appropriatel...

Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World seeks to dissect and interrogate the nature of the present-day art field,...

Biocultural collections are plants and animals used by people, products made from them, and/or information and archives about them. They are numero...

This book immediately becomes the reference on how to create exhibitions in modern museums and how to work through the complexities of the exhibiti...

Over the years as the director of the St. Louis Art Museum and later the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Perry T. Rathbone kept a journal. These are...

This groundbreaking book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space, and depth dimensions of t...

From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West hav...

How can exhibitions not only stage existing knowledge, but also raise questions that might eventually lead to new research? This question has becom...

The book addresses the contribution of Intangible Cultural Heritage to the sustainable management of historic cities and towns. Through the unique,...

The book critically examines the epistemological disparities between colonialism and capitalism-critical cultural practices and Western art institu...

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of arch...

Ancient myths and Roman treasures, lost loves and haunted relics: historical objects are reimagined in fiction, memoir and poetry - featuring items...

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence an...

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the problem of mass violence an...

Grappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and im...

Grappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and im...

While growing up in rural Indiana during World War II, William Fagaly began his first venture - collecting and selling earthworms to locals - from ...

West Africa is a rich storehouse of heritage resources belonging to different time periods. Archaeologists attempt to exhume, analyse, and interpre...

West Africa is a rich storehouse of heritage resources belonging to different time periods. Archaeologists attempt to exhume, analyse, and interpre...

This edited volume reflects on the profound effort undertaken by artists to contest settler denial and amnesia to disclose Australia's foundations ...

This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working with the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our w...

The incredible story of the first director of the Morgan Library: a visionary Black woman who walked confidently in an early 20th-century mans worl...

As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of ...

As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of ...

Small museums face the same challenges as large museums on a tighter budget and with fewer resources. Navigating these obstacles requires strong l...

Small museums face the same challenges as large museums on a tighter budget and with fewer resources. Navigating these obstacles requires strong l...