Museology & Heritage Studies

Small museums must adopt policies of financial responsibility and stability if they are to last. Through an organized commitment to transparency an...

Effectively managing people, facilities, and partnerships can make or break an institution. Museum operations encompasses responsibility for the ma...

Museums exist to serve their audiences; however, the scope of this charge is constantly being challenged and changed. This book looks at new roles ...

Programs, tours and exhibits are the meat-and-potatoes of what most museums do to meet their missions to educate the public. Interpretation helps m...

Proper collections care, planning, and conservation is an essential responsibility for a museum of any size, but funding for these obligations ofte...

Museums exist to serve their audiences; however, the scope of this charge is constantly being challenged and changed. This book looks at new roles ...

Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift offers 44 seminal articles representing the changing perspectives about the...

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for ...

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for ...

Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases  how the use of technology in museums should be understood...

Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases  how the use of technology in museums should be understood...

Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green b...

As the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us exhibitions are the public face of museums. The effecti...

As the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Standing Professional Committees Council tells us exhibitions are the public face of museums. The effecti...

What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits f...

What museum does not want insight into what its visitors and potential visitors are looking for? Nearly every function within the museum benefits f...

Traditionally, city museums have been keepers of city history. Many have been exercises in nostalgia, reflecting city pride. However, a new generat...

Ancient Salt Roads of China is the most comprehensive book to date on the transportation routes of the ancient Chinese salt industry and offers com...

The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and ...

This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collec...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Exhibitions have been in a state of constant transformation since the...

Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact institutional change by impleme...

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway....

This open access handbook is the first to take stock of and to provide a comprehensive international interdisciplinary review of developments in li...

This book offers an innovative study of UNESCO's religious heritage and nomination mechanisms. In particular, it shows how these processes can easi...

This book gathers the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Ar.Tec. (Scientific Society of Architectural Engineering), Colloqui.AT.e,...

This book focuses on digital museums in the context of Vietnam and contributes to global discussions on the development of digital museum offerings...

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britains inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a...

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

Conservation of Books is the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation, offering the first modern, compreh...

This book is dedicated to the analytical methods and approaches applied to ancient textiles and fibres. It offers an overview of textile archaeolog...

Colour, Colour Measurement and Colour Change, the first new book in the expanded Science for Conservators series, explains the science of colour, c...

Colour, Colour Measurement and Colour Change, the first new book in the expanded Science for Conservators series, explains the science of colour, c...

This study reassesses Cages multifaceted practice from an integrated transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his musical, visual...

We've all been tourists at some point in our lives. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Is...

This book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts ...

In an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler ...

This book presents a comprehensive forensic analysis of an oil painting depicting a Madonna and Child in a tondo format, previously thought to be a...

This book presents a comprehensive forensic analysis of an oil painting depicting a Madonna and Child in a tondo format, previously thought to be a...

Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and ass...

Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and ass...

This book examines The Thousand and One Nights by Abol-Hassan Khan Sani ol-Molk Ghaffari (1813/1814-1867), of  the content of the illustrations of ...

Museums and the Ancient Middle East is the first book to focus on contemporary exhibit practice in museums that present the ancient Middle East. Br...

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of masonry structures and constructions, as presented by leadi...