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Environmental Management: Guidelines for Museums and Galleries by May Cassar 9780415514927
RRP: $92.38$80.72The key to the survival of museum collections is a stable indoor environment and vital to this is a well-maintained building with effective environmental services. Environmental Management sets out clearly the theory and practice of achieving an... -
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon 9780615346502
RRP: $52.50$44.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615346502Author Nina SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Museum 2.0Publisher Museum 2.0Weight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art by Anthony Gardner
RRP: $44.00$38.85This innovative new history examines in-depth how the growing popularity of large-scale international survey exhibitions, or 'biennials', has influenced global contemporary art since the 1950s. Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks
RRP: $27.28$18.06New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind... -
Displaying Organisation: How to Successfully Manage a Museum Exhibition by Rhiannon Goddard
RRP: $73.48$60.50Displaying Organisation is a practical, step-by-step guide to planning and implementing exhibitions. Drawing on the author's in-depth experience of managing a wide range of exhibitions and installations, the book breaks down the process of exhibition... -
The Burrell Collection: Renaissance of a global museum by Dr. Bridget McConnell
RRP: $52.50$45.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638397Author Dr. Bridget McConnellFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson 9780415067850
RRP: $283.50$247.13Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and... -
A Companion to Museum Studies by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: $81.80$73.92A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and... -
Museums and Heritage Tourism: Theory, Practice and People by White Chris
RRP: $37.78$33.68This book examines the symbiotic relationship between museums, heritage attractions and tourism, using a range of international case studies. Divided into three clear sections, the author first outlines a theoretical framework for understanding the role... -
Interpreting Heritage: A Guide to Planning and Practice by Steve Slack
RRP: $69.28$61.24Interpreting Heritage is a practical book about the planning and delivery of interpretation that will give anyone working in the heritage sector the confidence and tools they need to undertake interpretation.Steve Slack suggests a broad formula for how... -
Curating, Interpretation and Museums: When Attitude Becomes Form by Sylvia Lahav
RRP: $104.98$91.35Following a period of strategic and ideological change in museums, this book outlines new attitudes in curating and display, education and learning, text and interpretation, access, inclusion, participation, space, and the issues around the... -
Reshaping Museum Space by Suzanne MacLeod 9780415343459
RRP: $79.78$70.10Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks 9780745341767
RRP: $52.50$35.24Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all... -
Museum, Media, Message by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
RRP: $252.00$218.42Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; and the evaluation of museums. Addressing the need for... -
The Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook by Timothy J. McNeil 9781538157985
RRP: $178.50$157.58This full-color book uses real-world examples, museum and exhibition design studio profiles, historical and contemporary voices, and draw on the author's own creative practice and exhibition making experience, as well as contributions from his extensive... -
Museums in a Digital Age by Ross Parry 9780415402620
RRP: $113.38$99.27The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their... -
Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization by Annie E. Coombes
RRP: $115.40$102.25MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and... -
Stories from Small Museums by Fiona Candlin
RRP: $35.68$26.21During the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased. Typically small and independent, the new museums concentrated on local history, war and transport. This book asks who founded them, how and why.In order to find... -
Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums by Angela Kipp 9781442263482
RRP: $73.50$65.00Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. The target audience are museum professionals... -
Museum Accessibility by Design: A Systemic Approach to Organizational Change by Maria Chiara Ciaccheri
RRP: $77.70$68.59Museum Accessibility by Design: A Systemic Approach to Organizational Change addresses the design of museum accessibility strategy, offering cases, tools and resources to facilitate its critical deployment and guide its evolution in museums through... -
Community Archives: Sustaining Memory by Jeannette A. Bastian
RRP: $152.25$122.98This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres. It also explores new definitions of... -
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There by Tiffany Jenkins
RRP: $35.68$25.79The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many... -
Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries by Christopher Whitehead
RRP: $79.78$70.10In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the... -
Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' by William Logan 9780415454506
RRP: $79.78$70.10Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to... -
The Science For Conservators Series: Volume 2: Cleaning by Conservation Unit Museums and Galleries Commission
RRP: $92.38$80.72For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no... -
Heritage and Sport: An Introduction by Gregory Ramshaw 9781845417017
RRP: $62.90$56.51This book provides a holistic view of the relationship between heritage and sport. It examines four types of sport heritage: tangible immovable sport heritage (sports venues, monuments and memorials, landscapes); tangible movable sport heritage (museums... -
The India Museum Revisited by Arthur MacGregor 9781800085725
RRP: $126.00$111.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085725Author Arthur MacGregorFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 37mm -
Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift by Gail Anderson 9780759119659
RRP: $134.40$119.11Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift offers 44 seminal articles representing the changing perspectives about the role of museums in contemporary times. The book includes iconic pieces from the 20th century and presents... -
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else by David Balzer
RRP: $20.98$15.04*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside... -
Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader by Gerard Corsane 9780415289467
RRP: $83.98$74.47Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries... -
Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media by Loic Tallon 9780759111219
RRP: $90.30$79.34The biggest trend in museum exhibit design today is the creative incorporation of technology. Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media explores the potential of mobile technologies (cell phones, digital cameras, MP3... -
Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed by Simon Knell 9780415444675 [USED COPY]
RRP: $104.98$7.20This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from... -
Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed by Simon Knell 9780415444675
RRP: $104.98$92.19This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from... -
Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites by Laurajane Smith
RRP: $79.78$70.10Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites... -
A Guide to Copyright for Museums and Galleries by Anna Booy
RRP: $92.38$80.72Written by a team of legal experts on copyright, this user-friendly, comprehensive guide is the essential reference tool for everyone in the world of museums and galleries whose work brings them into contact with copyright-related questions. It addresses... -
Museums and Difference by Daniel J. Sherman
RRP: $54.58$48.07Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference-notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race-have become equally important concerns of scholarship in... -
Museum Basics: The International Handbook by Timothy Ambrose
RRP: $83.98$75.73This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in... -
Museum Volunteers: Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers by Sinclair Goodlad
RRP: $92.38$80.72Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism.This book:* reviews... -
Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: $81.88$67.16The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new... -
Museums and their Communities by Sheila Watson
RRP: $96.58$86.37Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. Focusing on the museum as an institution,...