Museum Studies

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed, or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as...

When Jean Sutherland Boggs was appointed to direct the National Gallery of Canada in 1966, she became the first woman to direct a major museum in Canada and the first to direct a national gallery anywhere in the world. The subsequent appointments of...

After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a "voluntary detour" encapsulates the...

Collecting Mexico centers on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Shelley E. Garrigan approaches questions of origin, citizenry, membership,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996440202Author Martha L BensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Shiloh MuseumPublisher Shiloh MuseumWeight(grams) 816g

After visiting hundreds of museums across Alberta, Lianne McTavish chronicles some of the most challenging and unexpected sites where the idea of the museum is being reshaped. The concept of the visit as a "voluntary detour" encapsulates the...

"Shared Intelligence," companion catalog to the exhibition of the same name, explores the stimulating and productive relationship between painting and photography in American art. The essays in this beautifully illustrated book describe how...

Based on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship,...

Reculturing Museums takes a unified sociocultural theoretical approach to analyze the many conflicts museums experience in the 21st century. Embracing conflict, Ash asks: What can practitioners and researchers do to create the change they want to see,...

Published to mark 20 years since the landmark opening of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand in 1998, this illustrated book by well-known museum studies academic Conal McCarthy examines the vision behind the museum, how it has evolved in the last two...

A reference for BC Indigenous communities and museums, created by and for Indigenous people working in repatriation. Our late friend and brother Rod Naknakim said, "Reconciliation and repatriation cannot and should not be separated. The two must anchor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982163303Author Patrick BringleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386g

Judith Nasby, founding director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, animates the story of the gallery from its humble beginnings in the hallways of a university campus in 1916 to its latest incarnation as the internationally recognized Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646991495Author Victoria CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, LimitedWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136744Author Maxine E McBrinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 184g

Using Non-Textual Sources provides history students with the theoretical background and skills to interpret non-textual sources. It introduces the full range of non-textual sources used by historians and offers practical guidance on how to interpret them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782370741202Author Yves Le FurFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Editions Skira ParisPublisher Editions Skira ParisWeight(grams) 1980g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780271087108Author Matthew RampleyFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Pennsylvania State University PressPublisher Pennsylvania State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056995546Author Ram Shankar PathakFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Gordon & Breach Science Publishers LtdPublisher Gordon and BreachWeight(grams)...

"We Are Coming Home!" is the story of thehighly complex process of repatriation as described by those intimatelyinvolved in the work, notably the Piikuni, Siksika, and Kainai elderswho provided essential oversight and guidance. We also hear from...

Museums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies. Bringing together 16 contributors from eight countries, this book has...

For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser's Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spatrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a...

Working with Young Children in Museums makes a major contribution to the small body of extant research on young children in museums, galleries and heritage sites. Bridging theory and practice, the book introduces theoretical concepts in a clear and...

Heritage's revival as a respected academic subject has, in part, resulted from an increased awareness and understanding of indigenous rights and non-Western philosophies and practices, and a growing respect for the intangible. Heritage has, thus far,...

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and exhibitions. Drawing on a study of exhibitions that took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560980216Author Ivan KarpFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with audiences and communities on-site, online and in wider society. Facing new generations with growing...

Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices...

Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can also include unseen archives, study rooms, and libraries which are inaccessible to the public...

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by...

Iris Barry (1895-1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863358976Author Elena CrippaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. Considering recent gender and sexuality-related developments through a critical lens, the...

MUSEUM PR ACTICE Edited by CONAL MCCARTHY Museum Practice covers the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of all types, including the core functions of management, collections, exhibitions, and programs. Some forms of museum...

Managing Natural Science Collections demonstrates the need for consistency and evidence-based decision making in the management of natural science collections, which are becoming increasingly valuable when it comes to addressing societal challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534321Author Paul O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Between a Temple of Art and a Big EventAs places to enjoy art, as well as institutions that have become historic, museums can also be examined through the question of who exactly heads up these temples of art. What kinds of personalities have guided the...

Connecting Museums explores the boundaries of museums and how external relationships are affected by internal commitments, structures and traditions. Focusing on museums' relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, the book provides a detailed...

While historically focusing on the object, the study of ethics in conservation has expanded to consider the human aspect of conservation work. This book offers a flexible framework to guide decision-making in line with this development, offering an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838123260Author Celine CondorelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Edinburgh Talbot Rice GalleryPublisher University of Edinburgh...