Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Studies

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden subur...

Museum Development and Cultural Representation critically examines the development of a museum and cultural heritage centre in the indigenous Kelab...

Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage 2021 presents contributions on various aspects of the study, protection and restoration of...

Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities...

This book is a groundbreaking attempt to rethink the landscapes of the social world and historical practice by theorising social haunting: the ways...

First Published in 1997. This is Volume IX, Number I of Visual Resources, an international journal of documentation. This special issue focuses on ...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1...

Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, inc...

Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums is the first scholarly book to analyze contemporary African American museums from a multifac...

Studies in Archaeological Conservation features a range of case studies that explore the techniques and approaches used in current conservation pra...

This book examines artists engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist produc...

Heritage tourism is a global multi-million-dollar phenomenon, influencing national, regional and local cultural identities. Hong Kong finds itself ...

This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different places in which popula...

Interpreting Heritage is a practical book about the planning and delivery of interpretation that will give anyone working in the heritage sector th...

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This proces...

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and ...

It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However...

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophic...

This book explores the effects of the Instagram platform on the making and viewing of art.Authors Lachlan MacDowall and Kylie Budge critically anal...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

As a celebration of Anne Thurstons pioneering work on records and archives management as an essential basis for demonstrating integrity in governme...

This visually stunning and technically detailed book is an in-depth analysis of the materials and techniques used on thirty eight of the V&A's ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a mor...

Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digiti...

Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship makes a contribution towards building a museum perspective of innovation that takes into consideratio...

Plastic objects are included more than ever in museums and galleries collections these days, but these items can start to deteriorate when they a j...

X-radiography of textile objects reveals hidden features as well as unexpected components and materials. This non-destructive technique throws ligh...

Working with Young Children in Museums makes a major contribution to the small body of extant research on young children in museums, galleries and ...

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a blockbuster exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton G...

The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the inven...

This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline an...

Museums and public art have traditionally taken significantly different approaches to customer engagement, but throughout history they have also wo...

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This bac...

This Routledge Focus aims to investigate and analyse the United Kingdoms relationship with the European Communities (EC) and the European Union (EU...