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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745341767
RRP: €29.75€20.27Walk 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... -
The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon 9780615346502
RRP: €29.75€25.19Apologies 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 -
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum Françoise Vergès 9780745349619
RRP: €23.80€15.89'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly The Western museum is a battleground - a terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone today wants to rethink the museum, but how many have the... -
Displaying Organisation: How to Successfully Manage a Museum Exhibition by Rhiannon Goddard
RRP: €41.64€34.28Displaying 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: €29.75€26.06Apologies 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)... -
A Companion to Museum Studies Sharon Macdonald (University of Manchester) 9781444334050
RRP: €46.35€42.20A 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 Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
RRP: €45.21€39.72At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: €15.46€10.51New 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... -
Museum Basics: The International Handbook Timothy Ambrose (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, UK and a Fellow of the Museums Association, UK) 9781138292475
RRP: €47.59€43.23This 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... -
Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen
RRP: €52.35€45.74This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application... -
Museum, Media, Message Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (University of Leicester, UK) 9780415116725
RRP: €142.80€123.77Collecting 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... -
Inward, Outward, Onward, Upward: A Lifelong Journey Towards Anti-Oppression and Inclusion in Museums by Cecile Shellman 9781538193075
RRP: €29.75€25.93Inward, Outward, Onward, Upward: A Lifelong Journey Towards Anti-Oppression and Inclusion in Museums puts forth an incisive look at diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, anti-racism, pro-marginalized people and museums. It asks its readers—museum... -
Museums and Wealth: The Politics of Contemporary Art Collections by Nizan Shaked 9781350045750
€83.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350045750Author Nizan ShakedFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
Stories from Small Museums Fiona Candlin 9781526166883
RRP: €20.22€15.08During 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... -
The Art Business: Art World, Art Market by Jeffrey Taylor 9780367513238
RRP: €47.59€42.20This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional activities of the art business. Addressing this fast-moving industry, The Art Business: Art World, Art Market analyses the sector's institutions and structures, including galleries, auction... -
Manual of Museum Planning: Sustainable Space, Facilities, and Operations by Barry Lord
RRP: €121.38€108.12As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of people, effective museum planning is more important than ever. The Manual of Museum Planning has become... -
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There by Tiffany Jenkins
RRP: €20.22€14.61The 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... -
The Science For Conservators Series: Volume 2: Cleaning by Conservation Unit Museums and Galleries Commission
RRP: €52.35€45.74For 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... -
The Science For Conservators Series: Volume 3: Adhesives and Coatings by Conservation Unit Museums and Galleries Commission
RRP: €45.21€39.72For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators Series have 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... -
Community Archives: Sustaining Memory by Jeannette A. Bastian
RRP: €86.28€69.69This 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... -
Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' William Logan (Deakin University, Australia) 9780415454506
RRP: €45.21€39.72Places 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... -
Interpreting Heritage: A Guide to Planning and Practice by Steve Slack
RRP: €39.26€34.44Interpreting 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... -
Museums and Heritage Tourism: Theory, Practice and People Chris White (UOW College Hong Kong (UOWCHK), Hong Kong) 9781032438900
RRP: €21.41€19.39This 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... -
Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market by Noah Horowitz 9780691157887
RRP: €29.75€24.16Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers... -
Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums by Angela Kipp 9781442263482
RRP: €41.65€37.13Managing 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... -
Heritage, Museums and Galleries: An Introductory Reader by Gerard Corsane 9780415289467
RRP: €47.59€42.20Bringing 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... -
Museum Texts: Comunication Frameworks by Louise Ravelli
RRP: €45.21€39.72Answering 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... -
Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift by Gail Anderson 9780759119659
RRP: €76.16€67.50Reinventing 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... -
Museum of the Future: Now What? by Cristina Bechtler
RRP: €19.04€13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037645697Author Cristina BechtlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier -
Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum by Richard Sandell 9780415494731
RRP: €45.21€39.72Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums... -
Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media by Loic Tallon 9780759111219
RRP: €51.17€44.96The 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... -
Biennials, Triennials, and Documenta: The Exhibitions that Created Contemporary Art Anthony Gardner (University of Oxford, UK) 9781444336658
RRP: €24.93€22.35This 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... -
Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed by Simon Knell 9780415444675
RRP: €59.49€52.24This 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 Volunteers: Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers Sinclair Goodlad 9780415510479
RRP: €52.35€45.74Museum 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... -
Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives by C. Kurt Dewhurst 9781442272927
RRP: €69.02€61.17This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third... -
Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker by Michael Murawski 9781538108956
RRP: €35.70€32.00In 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... -
Transforming Inclusion in Museums: The Power of Collaborative Inquiry by Porchia Moore 9781538161906
RRP: €41.65€36.83This book proposes that the Incluseum's paradigm can help the field meet the challenges of this current landscape and offer practical guidance for museum workers, leaders and emerging professionals doing the daily work to transform the future of museums... -
Museum Metamorphosis: Cultivating Change Through Cultural Citizenship by nico wheadon 9781538130438
RRP: €41.65€36.83This book uses curated roundtables, case studies and interviews with cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art who offer tools to dismantle institutional hierarchies and reshape museums into more vital and relevant forms.About the... -
The Delirious Museum: A Journey from the Louvre to Las Vegas by Calum Storrie 9781845115098
€30.40"The Delirious Museum" is a remarkable, illuminating work, which presents an original view of the idea of the museum in the twenty-first century, re-imagining the possibilities for museums and their displays and re-examining the blurred boundaries... -
The Art of Access: A Practical Guide for Museum Accessibility by Heather Pressman 9781538130513
RRP: €44.03€38.87This book will help readers take the steps needed to set their museums on a path to being welcoming and accessible. It features a variety of actions that museums, regardless of their size or budget, can implement.About the AuthorHeather Pressman has...