Museum, Historic Sites, Gallery & Art Guides

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors b...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy, this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between communi...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understan...

This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressions found on select mid-20th-century modern commercial buildings in South ...

This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-...

'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide...

Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides ...

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues ...

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are vari...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and...

The subject of many films and books, art theft is a fascinating topic that continues to capture the popular imagination. However, it is one of many...

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including w...