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Clapham Junction 3000 years of Maltese Heritage
Gordon E.Weston€8.95CLAPHAM JUNCTION is well known for its intriguing display of the enigmatic ‘cart-ruts’. Many visitors, however, are unaware of the number of other ...
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The Curator''s Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces
Adrian GeorgeCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50The Curators Handbook is the essential practical handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping out every stage of the exhibition-making pr...
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Curating Art Now
Lilian CameronCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Curating Art Now is a timely reflection on the practice of curating and the role of the art curator during a period of rapid change. Curating h...
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Building Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region: Construction, Materials, Encounters
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North America. Their research, o...
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Experts in the World Heritage Regime: Between Protection and Prestige
Luke JamesCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99Addressing the topic of expertise in international cultural conservation, this book argues that the UNESCO World Heritage regime emerged as a Faust...
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Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
Noah AngellCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guid...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Laura HeltonCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African Ameri...
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Rare Books and Special Collections
Sidney E. BergerCurrent price €80.99Original price €107.99From cuneiform, coins, and codices to prints, drawings, photographs, and maps, departments of rare books and special collections are the premier re...
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The Redemption of Things: Collecting and Dispersal in German Realism and Modernism
Samuel FrederickCurrent price €113.09Original price €129.99Collecting is usually understood as an activity that bestows permanence, unity, and meaning on otherwise scattered and ephemeral objects. In The Re...
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Exhibitions for Social Justice
Elena GonzalesCurrent price €39.09Original price €45.99Exhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best practices ...
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Participatory Heritage
Andrea CopelandCurrent price €56.99Original price €75.99The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges...
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Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €133.97Original price €153.99Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the wa...
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The Vertical Man: A Study in Primitive Indian Sculpture
W.G. ArcherCurrent price €87.54Original price €102.99Originally published in 1947, The Vertical Man explores a form of Indian sculpture largely ignored in other studies, with a focus on two kinds of s...
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Returning Southeast Asia''s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution
NUS PressCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...
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Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €38.24Original price €44.99Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights, democracy and p...
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Law and Intangible Cultural Heritage in the City
Sara RossCurrent price €122.39Original price €143.99With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangi...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Laura HeltonCurrent price €113.96Original price €130.99During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African Ameri...
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Managing Natural and Cultural Heritage for a Durable Tourism
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €98.30Original price €112.99This contributed volume offers a wealth of cases that explore the factors and conditions required for heritage tourism to be economically and socia...
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Art Museum Education: Facilitating Gallery Experiences
Olga HubardCurrent price €89.60Original price €102.99How can museum educators facilitate experiences with artworks that are meaningful to viewers? How might educators negotiate divergences between vis...
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Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe: Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism ...
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Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe: Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism ...
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Lessing digital: Studien für eine historisch-kritische Neuedition
Megan O. DrinkwaterCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99Die Lessing-Forschung steht seit längerer Zeit vor der Herausforderung, dass sie zwar ein Zentrum der germanistischen Aufklärungsforschung bildet,...
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Human Remains in Society: Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-Violence
Manchester University PressCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and et...
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Handbook On Developing Online Curriculum Materials For Teachers: Lessons from Museum Education Partnerships
Information Age PublishingCurrent price €93.08Original price €106.99This book provides an essential resource for educators and museum professionals who wish to develop education focused eMuseums that feature motivat...
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An Introduction to the Making of Western Art: Materiality, Preservation and Change
Susan L. GreenCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99This book is the first introduction to Western art that not only considers how choice of materials can impact form, but also how objects in differe...
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A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
Sally CoulthardCurrent price €22.52Original price €28.50The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...
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Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Steven ConnCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50We live in a museum age, writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are ...
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Regulating Transnational Heritage: Memory, Identity and Diversity
Merima BruncevicCurrent price €122.39Original price €143.99There is a vast body of international and national law that regulates cultural heritage. However, the current regulation remains quite blind to the...
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Battle for the Museum: Cultural Institutions in Crisis
Rachel SpenceCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient timesin the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests force out patrons a...
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Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €34.43Original price €41.99This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development. The book argues that arts and culture ar...
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America''s Culture
Chip ColwellCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the obje...
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Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador
Goose Lane EditionsCurrent price €51.32Original price €58.99Winner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Associations Outstanding Achievement...
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Open Heritage Data: An introduction to research, publishing and programming with open data in the heritage sector
Henriette Roued-CunliffeCurrent price €60.74Original price €80.99Digital heritage can mean many things, from building a database on Egyptian textiles to interacting with family historians over Facebook. However, ...
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Collecting Asian Art: Cultural Politics and Transregional Networks in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
Leuven University PressCurrent price €54.39Original price €67.99Museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe.Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museum...
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The Queer Museum: Radical Inclusion and Western Museology
Erica RobenaltCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99The Queer Museum examines how relationships between institutions and LGBTQ+ communities function and how they help to define queer museum practice....
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Swanseas Royal Institution and Waless First Museum
University of Wales PressCurrent price €49.58Original price €56.99The Royal Institution of South Wales is a very special organisation, one of the few such institutions to survive into the twenty-first century. Fou...
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The British Museum: Treasures of Ancient Egypt: 20 Colourful Cards to Pull Out and Send
Michael O'Mara Books LtdCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99A stunning new range of stationery produced in association with the British Museum.These beautiful colour postcards, illustrated with artwork and a...
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Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals, Indigenous Collections, Current Practice
Conal McCarthyCurrent price €58.28Original price €66.99This ground-breaking book explores the revolution thats transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwide...
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The Role of Today''s Museum
Clive GrayCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99The Role of Todays Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the ...
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International Perspectives on Museum Management: Looking Towards Desirable Futures
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €26.96Original price €30.99International Perspectives on Museum Management is the first volume of the ICOM Museum Practice series. eExploresing contemporary practices in the ...
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Inside Outside: The Hidden Voices of Historic-Old-New Yazd
Fatemeh RostamiCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99This book is the voice of everyday people talking about their citys poetryprose transformation. Through the narrative-imagination of the local live...
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Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts: Thirteen Centuries of Glory from the Umayyads to the Ottomans
Seracettin SahìnCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99Current price €54.80Original price €62.99Save 13% -
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €190.52Original price €218.99The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bri...
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Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan: Relics of an Underground Empire
Jung-Sun HanCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99This book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan.Introducing and an...
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Valuing Your Collection: A practical guide for museums, libraries and archives
Freda MatassaCurrent price €60.74Original price €80.99This book addresses the issue of valuing objects in cultural collections, ranging from high-value to low or no-value and featuring a range of colle...
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3D Recording, Documentation and Management of Cultural Heritage
Whittles PublishingCurrent price €84.14Original price €98.99Documentation of our cultural heritage is experiencing an explosion of innovation. New tools have appeared in recent decades including laser scanni...
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Participatory Heritage
Andrea CopelandCurrent price €104.24Original price €138.99The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges...
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