Museum Studies

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The full, inside story of how the discovery of a previously unknown painting by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance master, went from media sensation to career-destroying scandal.On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December, 1969, the Boston Museum...

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In June 1965, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, as it was then named, owned a mere handful of artifacts. In fact, the Oklahoma City institution was forced to borrow materials in order to mount exhibitions to support its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824889869Author Philipp SchorchFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint University of Hawaii PressPublisher University of Hawaii PressWeight(grams) 152g

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices in three Pacific museums located at the corners of the so-called Polynesian triangle: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum,...

Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of ‘world cultures’, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are...

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The East India Marine Society Museum was one of the most influential collecting institutions in nineteenth-century America. From 1799 to 1867, when Salem, MassachuSetts, was a premier American port and launching pad for international trade, the museum's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788789438047Author Bodil Bundgaard RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Nationalmuseet AntiksamlingenPublisher Nationalmuseet Antiksamlingen

Showcasing fifty-seven items from the collections at Puke Ariki museum in Taranaki, Flashback puts a fresh light on Taranaki heritage and the stories of the region and people.Book InformationISBN 9781869694821Author Andrew MoffatFormat PaperbackPage...

Telling Our Story is a rich visual and narrative collection celebrating the history, culture, and diversity of the Arab American community. The volume chronicles the founding of the Arab American National Museum from several viewpoints, and offers a...

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How do history museums and historic sites tell the richly diverse stories of the American people? What fascinates us most about American history?To help answer these questions, noted public historian Richard Rabinowitz examines the evolution of public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781091306158Author Uvi PoznanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 159g

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National museums and national galleries played an important role in the nation-building processes of the 19th century. As spaces of knowledge, they educated the population and contributed to shaping the nation. In this context, it was important to convey...

Changing Heritage presents the most comprehensive analysis of heritage issues available today. Critically analysing the complexity of the current and forthcoming issues faced by heritage, it presents insightful directions for the future.Drawing on the...

Originally published in 1971 The Countryside on View is a handbook which provides extensive information about the many ways in which visitors to rural areas may find out about what they have come to enjoy. A major part of it concerns small countryside...

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new...

Join Ahmed, along with his friends, Nasser, and Aisha, as they take a tour around the most famous museums in Qatar. The perfect pre-reader book for tiny tots looking to explore the wonderful world of museums in Qatar.Book InformationISBN...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788776021412Author Per Kristian MadsenFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint NationalmuseetPublisher NationalmuseetWeight(grams) 1132g

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The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world. It suggests that existing art institutions are not equipped to deal with the radical social, economic and environmental change we...

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Visitor experience has been a long neglected aspect of museum practise, receiving less academic attention than areas such as exhibition design or collections care. Despite this, the quality of the visitor experience is the single biggest factor which...

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...

Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full length account of its various collections and fascinating activities had ever been written before Mr. True put them down here in 1950. Founded through a generous...

Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals - all with their own vision of the truth...