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The Care and Display of Historic Clothing by Karen M. DePauw 9781538105924
RRP: $64.50$62.22Wearable textiles hold their own stories of trade, manufacture and regionalism, just to name a few; they also tell a personal tale of the individuals who created our history. When we look at a piece of clothing, a coat, a dress, an undergarment, we see... -
Museum Theory by Andrea Witcomb
RRP: $70.89$62.81MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB AND KYLIE MESSAGE Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and... -
Recoding the Museum: Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change by Ross Parry
RRP: $54.17$47.41Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?Does there continue to be a basic 'incompatibility'... -
The Museum Time Machine: Putting Cultures on Display by Robert Lumley
RRP: $47.72$41.96A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.About the AuthorRobert Lumley is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History and... -
The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture by Sharon Macdonald 9780415153263
RRP: $49.01$43.06The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of... -
Museums 101 by Mark Walhimer 9781442230187
RRP: $45.15$39.93Looking for an A-Z, one-stop, comprehensive book on museums? Wish you were able to have one of the world's leading museum consultants spend a couple of days with you, talking you through how to start a museum, how museums work, how to set up an exhibit,... -
What is a Museum?: Perspectives from National and International Museum Leaders by The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums 9781538167809
RRP: $32.25$28.11A series of over 40 essays written by well-known leaders in the museum sector and related fields contribute to our understanding of the word "museum" in the United States and internationally. Members of the International Council of Museums provide... -
Museum Provision and Professionalism by Gaynor Kavanagh
RRP: $51.59$45.23Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything... -
The New Art Museum Library by Amelia Nelson 9781538135693
RRP: $60.63$55.75The New Art Museum Library addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. In 2007, the publication, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, edited by Joan Benedetti,... -
Museum Management and Marketing by Richard Sandell
RRP: $59.33$52.28Drawing together a selection of high quality, intellectually robust and stimulating articles on both theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this Reader investigates the closely linked areas of management and marketing in the museum.The... -
The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World by Kevin Walsh
RRP: $69.65$60.46The 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past is exploited for commercial profit. In The Representation of the Past, Kevin Walsh examines... -
Learning from Museums by John H. Falk 9781442275997
RRP: $55.47$49.25This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking's ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further... -
Preserve, Protect, and Defend: A Practical Guide to the Care of Collections by Barbara Appelbaum 9781984056757
RRP: $51.54$41.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984056757Author Barbara AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach by Beverly Serrell
$54.62Beverly Serrell presents the reader with excellent guidelines on the process of exhibit label planning, writing, design, and production. One of the museum field's leading consultants and label writers, Serrell's 1996 edition of Exhibit Labels has been a... -
Museums: A History by John E. Simmons 9781538171516
RRP: $32.25$28.11This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and... -
The Value of Museums: Enhancing Societal Well-Being by John H. Falk 9781538149218
RRP: $54.18$50.00The Value of Museums makes the case that the niche museums has always been public well-being. This guide shows museums how to assess and communicate that essential public value. About the AuthorJohn H. Falk is executive director of the Institute for... -
New Museums and the Making of Culture by Kylie Message
RRP: $46.43$40.88In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicization of the ownership and curation of objects,... -
Museum Education for Today's Audiences: Meeting Expectations with New Models by Jason L. Porter 9781538148600
RRP: $51.60$45.43This book will help museum educators meet visitors' changing expectations, train and prepare responsive educators, and develop models for the futureAbout the AuthorJason L. Porter is the Kayla Skinner Deputy Director for Education and Public Engagement... -
Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: $51.59$45.23How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of... -
Museum Texts: Comunication Frameworks by Louise Ravelli
RRP: $49.01$43.06Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?* Why do some choice... -
Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies by John Edward Simmons 9781442277458
RRP: $52.89$49.25Care of the collections is a core responsibility for all museums and related cultural institutions. The foundation of collections care and stewardship is good collections management policies. This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a... -
The Development of Costume by Naomi Tarrant
RRP: $49.01$43.06Clothing is the outward and visible sign of taste, discrimination, social attitude and status. In every culture, men and women pay enormous attention to the minutiae of dress and appearance. This authoritative study looks at both the social and physical... -
Museums and the Public Sphere by J Barrett 9781118274835
RRP: $38.64$35.41Museums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums around the world as sites of democratic public space. Explores the role of museums around the world as sites of public discourse and democracy Examines the changing idea of the museum in... -
Presidential Libraries and Museums by Christian A. Nappo 9781442271357
RRP: $92.88$82.19Presidential libraries and museums are national monuments dedicated to the memories of men who served as America's commander-in-chief. There are twenty-five (soon to be twenty-six) presidential libraries and museums. Following an introductory... -
The Preparator's Handbook: A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects by Andrew Saluti 9781538139226
RRP: $38.70$34.42The Preparator's Handbook is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training. It explores, explains, and demonstrates object preparation... -
The Manual of Strategic Planning for Cultural Organizations: A Guide for Museums, Performing Arts, Science Centers, Public Gardens, Heritage Sites, Libraries, Archives and Zoos by Gail Dexter Lord 9781538101315
RRP: $50.31$44.34The Manual of Strategic Planning for Cultural Organizations adopts a hollistic approach to the creative world of cultural institutions. By encompassing museums, art galleries, gardens, zoos, science centers, historic sites, cultural centers, festivals,... -
The Museal Turn by Fellow and Former Director Douglas Brown 9783825360979
RRP: $79.98$69.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825360979Author Fellow and Former Director Douglas BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 369Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag... -
The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye by Maxwell L. Anderson 9781933253671
$53.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933253671Author Maxwell L. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint American Association of MuseumsPublisher American Association of... -
Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums and Other Informal Educational Settings by Judy Diamond 9781442263543
RRP: $50.31$44.34Administrators of museums and other informal-learning centers often need to demonstrate, in some tangible way, the effectiveness of their institutions as teaching tools. Practical Evaluation Guide discusses specific methods for analyzing audience... -
Change Is Required: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Museum by Avi Y. Decter 9781538161661
RRP: $45.15$39.93Seizing the Moment will empower museum professionals, institutional leaders, funders and supporters to address the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic, economic dislocation, and social protest and stimulate new thinking about the future directions... -
Mission Matters: Relevance and Museums in the 21st Century by Gail Anderson 9781538103487
RRP: $55.47$48.74Mission Matters sheds a fresh light on how to envision relevant and impactful museums. Anderson takes the understanding of mission relevance to a new level. The premise of the book makes direct links to external contemporary realities and the need for... -
Islam at the Tropenmuseum by Mirjam Shatanawi
$57.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460222474Author Mirjam ShatanawiFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 1235g -
Manual of Digital Museum Planning by Ali Hossaini 9781442278967
RRP: $96.75$85.53The Manual of Digital Museum Planning is a comprehensive guide to digital planning, development, and operations for museum professionals and students of museums studies and arts administration. In the tradition of Lord Cultural Resource's renowned... -
Fostering Empathy Through Museums by Elif M. Gokcigdem 9781442263574
RRP: $61.92$54.24Fostering Empathy through Museums features fifteen case studies with clear take-away ideas, and lessons learned by vividly illustrating a spectrum of approaches in the way museums are currently employing empathy, a critical skill that is relevant to... -
Come, Stay, Learn, Play: A Guide to Making the Museum Experience by Andrea Gallagher Nalls
RRP: $45.15$39.93Come, Stay, Learn, Play is a practical guide to creating amazing visitor experiences for those on the front-line of museums. About the AuthorAndrea Gallagher Nalls is the director of experience and operations at the Tampa Bay History Center, and is the... -
Programming for People with Special Needs: A Guide for Museums and Historic Sites by Katie Stringer 9781442227613
RRP: $45.15$39.93Programming for People with Special Needs: A Guide for Museums and Historic Sites will help museums and historic sites become truly inclusive educational experiences. The book is unique because it covers education and inclusion for those with both... -
Measuring Museum Impact and Performance: Theory and Practice by John W. Jacobsen 9781442263307
RRP: $55.47$48.74Based on extensive research and decades of experience, museum analyst and planner John W. Jacobsen provides both the theoretical underpinnings and the operational pragmatics of measuring any museum's intentional impact and performance by using 1,025... -
The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum by Geraldine Norman
RRP: $38.70$26.51The Hermitage Musuem in St Petersburg is possibly the greatest museum in the world. It began as a showcase for the art treasures of the Tsars and reflects their legendary extravagance. Imperial romances, marriages and murders all had an impact on the... -
Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker by Michael Murawski 9781538108949
RRP: $87.72$76.28In this book, Michael Murawski explores the work of museums as agents of change through inspiring case studies as well as his own honest, personal experiences as a museum educator, offering effective strategies for museums to enact change in their... -
Writing for Museums by Margot Wallace 9781538166253
RRP: $38.70$34.42Whether written by administrators, staffers, freelancers, or interns, words are delivered by people in your museums with the knowledge, to be interpreted by strangers. This new edition features seven new chapters and a focus on inclusivity and...