Museums & museology books

Humanities scholars, in general, often have a difficult time explaining why their work matters, and eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This book explores―at the macro, meso and micro levels and in terms of qualitative as well as quantitative studies―the...  Read More >>

This book addresses the effects of the environment on Saint Petersburg’s cultural heritage. It summarizes the results...  Read More >>

This textbook provides a general introduction to the most important nondestructive testing (NDT) exploration methods...  Read More >>

A visitor-friendly handbook that serves as a souvenir of the collection as well as an evocation of the experience...  Read More >>

By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century,...  Read More >>

Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others. In this...  Read More >>

By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century,...  Read More >>

​This book explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the legal protection of World Heritage sites...  Read More >>

This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. Multispectral...  Read More >>

Brings together international approaches to fashion curation in the 21st century as practiced in the museum, commercial...  Read More >>

Museums and the Culture of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range...  Read More >>

This collection is the first book to comprehensively analyse the relatively new and under-researched phenomenon...  Read More >>

Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican...  Read More >>

The second, third and fourth chapters focus on the Kurdish context, examining ethical changes as revealed in Kurdish...  Read More >>

Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions...  Read More >>

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This book takes the concept of “dark tourism”—journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity—in an innovative...  Read More >>

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference. The theme of the conference...  Read More >>

Produced in partnership with the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (AFLHAM), the volume...  Read More >>

Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and...  Read More >>

This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. These dynamics...  Read More >>

It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the...  Read More >>

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem...  Read More >>