Museology & Heritage Studies

Located in the vibrant Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Museo Jumex opened its doors to the public in 2013 as a one-of-a-kind museum devoted to...

National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed o...

This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in transatlantic relations between the United States, and Western and Central European nations...

This book is a summary of the main restoration works carried out at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem that commenced in September 2013. Work ...

Now in its fifth edition, The Historians Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offe...

A romantic journey through forty captivating gardens lost to time. All over the world, once-flourishing horticultural spaces have been abandoned an...

This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted hom...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Author Fund. The Persistenc...

Now in its fifth edition, The Historians Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offe...

This new title in the Director's Choice series guides the reader through the most important of the richly preserved cultural buildings in Bohemia a...

In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that prompted these exhibitions ...

Since its first publication in 1979, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts has become a foundational text in the field of art law. This thoroughly reorga...

Since its first publication in 1979, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts has become a foundational text in the field of art law. This thoroughly reorga...

Reflecting Fifty Years commemorates five decades of artistic innovation and cultural enrichment at Washington State University's extraordinary art ...

Celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges On an afternoon in January 1865, a roarin...

Water may separate islands and the mainland, but the sea also offers a vital link. This volume is one of three major outputs of the research and pu...

This volume explores the process of transformation that is affecting art museums and their role in the modern world. It considers art museums from ...

In recent times, ethnicity and issues of origin have become a hotly debated topic among Jews both in Israel and in the Diaspora. This is particular...

Art that questions the museum's role in assigning meaning to cultural artifactThis thought-provoking volume focuses on a series of works by Gala Po...

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is heritage in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan post-nation. It takes its i...

This book tells the story of the unifying of two major institutions during a turning point in American public art education. Traditionally separate...

This book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested...

This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural Historys David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. As one of the most visited hum...

This book provides indispensable and interdisciplinary insights into the revitalization and redevelopment of urban centers in war-stricken conflict...

The discussion about objects, ancestral remains and archives from former colonial territories is becoming increasingly heated. Over the centuries, ...

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in t...

Site-specific installations are created for specific locations and are usually intended as temporary artworks. The Perpetuation of Site-Specific In...

The cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many di...

Featuring the distinctive heights of Chinese culture, this book presents the readers with authors' insights into the concepts and passions of the C...

What are museums for? How far should museums shift from their traditional focus on high culture to explore popular culture? How can the passion peo...

European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former colonies. In doing so, however, t...

The world has been shocked by the destruction of world cultural heritage sites over the past two decades, as seen in widely disseminated videos dep...

Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find themselves in contact with...