Museology & Heritage Studies

Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types...

Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as creativity and inspiration are experienced by writers who engage with the visu...

The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attribu...

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing...

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in d...

Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum provides new thinking on exhibitions of global art and world art in relation to unive...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associat...

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

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the con...

The Digital Future of Museums: Conversations and Provocations argues that museums today can neither ignore the importance of digital technologies w...

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,...