Museum Studies

The Sustainable Museum is the first book to outline a coherent strategy for the direction of museums, as it relates to sustainability in the museum and heritage sector.Arguing that museums must place sustainability at the centre of all their activities,...

Welcoming Young Children into the Museum provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with this audience and their carers. Meeting the reader where they are, this guide enables professionals to work...

National Museums and the Origins of Nations provides the first international survey of origins stories in national museums and examines the ways in which such museums use the distant past as a vehicle to reflect the concerns of the political present...

Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives, they don't have the words to express why. This book brings these ideas together...

This is a new translation of Quiccheberg's seminal 16th century text on the collection and display of objects. Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, first published in Latin in 1565, is an ambitious effort to demonstrate the pragmatic value of curiosity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541246768Author Henna Coloring BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788890822308Author Hans Joachim NagelFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Nawal MediaPublisher Nawal Media

Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processes and practices that...

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039147Author Sarah Ganz BlytheFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 279mm * 203mm * 19mm

Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum traces the evolution of pervasive racial ideas, and 'post-race' allusions, over more than a century of museum thinking and practice. Drawing on the illuminating history of the Smithsonian Institution, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528429Author Beryl GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 22mm

Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518837Author E R ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Fundraising for Impact in Libraries, Archives, and Museums provides practical advice that will help LAMs reassess how to leverage their organizational assets in ways that support communities and help to forge productive relationships with foundation,...

Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world. In it, Michael Ames, an internationally renowned museum director, challenges popular concepts and...

Mapping a New Museum seeks to rethink the museum's role in today's politically conscious world. Presenting a selection of innovative projects that have taken place in Latin America over the last year, the book begins to map out possibilities for the...

This is a collection of stories about art works-whether an oil portrait, a wilderness explorer's sketchbook, or a Tiffany lamp-and how the author fell under their spell. Few people are aware of the work, the emotion, and the obsessions of a curator's job...

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From museums and the preservation of old buildings to broader questions of community and identity, heritage is now a political issue. This book explores what heritage means now heritage is big business and how it is used to encourage people to identify...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541246799Author Henna Coloring BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542364874Author Robert E BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888024425Author Mohammad H TamdgidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press)Publisher Ahead Publishing House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293023Author Rosella Mamoli ZorziFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539721574Author Paula a SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517539665Author Dixie Parker-FairbanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088684Author Pascal GielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm

What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535180160Author Helen D HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

This book bridges accessibility and evaluation through case studies of museums that highlight the role of evaluation in accessibility work. Stories from institutions of various sizes, types, and geographical locations highlight how diverse organizations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888024906Author Mohammad H TamdgidiFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Ahead Publishing House (Imprint: Okcir Press)Publisher Ahead Publishing House...

Over the years as the director of the St. Louis Art Museum and later the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Perry T. Rathbone kept a journal. These are his unguarded and spontaneous expressions of the moment, not meant for publication—at least not in his...

This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic...

Beverly Serrell and Katherine Whitney cover the essentials of the processes of exhibit label planning, writing, design, and production. In this third edition, Serrell’s classic guide to writing interpretive exhibit labels is updated to include new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519394330Author Jorge a Rodriguez JarFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In any museum, gallery, or heritage site that wishes to engage with foreign-language visitors, translation is essential. Providing texts in foreign languages – whether for international visitors from different language cultures or for heritage speakers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798576515677Author Babatunde E AdebiyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g