Museum Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293023Author Rosella Mamoli ZorziFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

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 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...

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...

Famines and the Making of Heritage is the first book to bring together groundbreaking research on the role of European famines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in relation to heritage making, museology, commemoration, education, and monument...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538146798Author Tara YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 152g

Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons for change in museums are examined and explained. The 170 years history of New Walk provides an original basis and innovative approach to...

Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality.It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums have hitherto been...

Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World demonstrates that digital literacy, creativity, and resilience, as the COVID-19 pandemic has so vividly illustrated, are now vital components of the classroom and of the curator’s toolbox.Museum studies students...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987903049Author Darrell MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint DM Ink PublishingPublisher DM Ink PublishingWeight(grams) 481g

The first of its kind, this practical guide to freelancing in museums and historic sites has the tools and resources to help answer common questions and get readers starting and growing a freelance career. Topics covered include: oHow do you market your...

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art. Bringing together expertise from different disciplines, the book provides an in-depth...

Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of ‘decolonising practice’ in privately owned museums and cultural centres in Zimbabwe.Including contributions from academics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733229692Author Jim StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Zymoglyphic Museum PressPublisher Zymoglyphic Museum PressWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863351843Author Archondia PolyzoudiFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546258940Author Janet C ConstantinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512820652Author Theo B. WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditions and the globalized artworld? The book brings together twenty curatorial case studies from diverse regions of the globe.Reflecting...

Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in all aspects of museums' structure and programming are top issues in the field today - and in the overall arts/culture sector. Much has been written, from various perspectives, over several decades. Yet,...

Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repair in contemporary Vietnam. Drawing on fieldwork in a range of museums in the country, alongside interviews with museum workers and...

Building on archival work undertaken in France and fieldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museum-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia provides a critical analysis of museum histories and development in three former colonial territories.This work...

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites.Drawing exclusively upon empirical research, chapters...

Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse the relationship between the representation of certain pasts in ‘official’ heritage settings and the use of the same pasts in political...

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating. Despite all genuine efforts to reach broader audiences, museums persistently fear riskingtheir credibility by becoming ‘too...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948630460Author Alison JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and LiPublisher Resource,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980230079Author Therese QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Stepsister Press, LLCPublisher Stepsister Press, LLCWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692459393Author Joe KirchmyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint No Frills BuffaloPublisher No Frills BuffaloWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988983908Author Paul LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint I Street PressPublisher I Street PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088738Author Ank Leeuw MarcarFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 150mm * 18mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773079522Author Morten SondergaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 782g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783954983735Author Georg NoackFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Sandstein Kommunikation GmbHPublisher Sandstein Kommunikation GmbH

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...