Museums & museology books

6733 books were found.

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Author: Cathy Curtis (, Los Angeles, CA)
ISBN: 9780199394500
Format: Hardback
$134.95

The first biography of Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) traces her rise from self-taught painter to art-world fame in...  Read More >>

Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House

Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country...

Author: J. Raven
ISBN: 9781137520760
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Tourism in National Capitals and Global Change

Tourism in National Capitals and Global Change

Author: Robert Maitland (Centre of Tourism Research at University of Westminster, UK)
ISBN: 9781138850750
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This book explores the phenomenon of capital city tourism, and uses recent research to examines the appeal of ‘capitalness’...  Read More >>

Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities

Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples,...

Author: Christopher Whitehead ,  Susannah Eckersley
ISBN: 9781472425188
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today....  Read More >>

William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

William Morris and the Society for the Protection of...

Author: Andrea Elizabeth Donovan (Minot State University, North Dakota, USA)
ISBN: 9781138878389
Format: Paperback
$120.00

William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings succeeded in preserving much of the historic...  Read More >>

Environmental Management for Collections - Alternative Conservation Strategies for Hot and Humid Climates

Environmental Management for Collections - Alternative...

Author: Shin Maekawa ,  Vincent L Beltran
ISBN: 9781606064344
Format: Paperback
$113.95

""A practical guide to the conservation of museum and other cultural heritage collections in hot and humid climates""--Provided...  Read More >>

Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability: Between past and future

Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability:...

Author: Elizabeth Auclair (Cergy-Pontoise University, France) ,  Graham Fairclough (Newcastle University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138778900
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book explores the relationships between heritage and sustainability in terms of both theory and practice. It...  Read More >>

Sous la pyramide: Le probleme des musees

Sous la pyramide: Le probleme des musees

Author: Francois Fressoz ,  Catherine Guillou
ISBN: 9782955288504
Format: Paperback
$33.64

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The Resilient Cultural Organisation

The Resilient Cultural Organisation

Author: Peter Latchford
ISBN: 9780956623522
Format: Paperback
$38.81

"With ever decreasing funding, the word which abounds in the cultural sector is 'resilience'. But what does it mean...  Read More >>

Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts

Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts

Author: Mel Evans
ISBN: 9780745335889
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities

Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples,...

Author: Christopher Whitehead ,  Rhiannon Mason
ISBN: 9781472425195
Format: Electronic book text
$329.87

The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today....  Read More >>

Museums of the World

Museums of the World

Author:
ISBN: 9783110404517
Format: Mixed media product
$3360.72

Listed alphabetically by country and place, and within places by name, this volume covers about 55,000 museums in...  Read More >>

The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity

The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation...

Author: David Harvey ,  Jim Perry
ISBN: 9781317530138
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

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Careers With Museums

Careers With Museums

Author: Institute for Career Research
ISBN: 9781512178890
Format: Paperback
$27.72

IF YOU LIKE TO SPEND YOUR DAYS AT the museum, there is a wide variety of interesting jobs that make working at these...  Read More >>

Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else

Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and...

Author: David Balzer
ISBN: 9780745335971
Format: Paperback
$30.95

A criticism of the saturation of the 'curator' in art, business and everyday life  Read More >>

Natural Heritage: At the Interface of Nature and Culture

Natural Heritage: At the Interface of Nature and Culture...

Author: Peter Howard (Bournemouth University, UK) ,  Thymio Papayannis (Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos, Greece)
ISBN: 9781138880658
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Gathering a number of distinguished authors with diverse backgrounds (from a religious leader to academics and conservation...  Read More >>

Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in...

Author: Grayson Perry
ISBN: 9780143127352
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Originally published: Great Britain: Particular Books, 2014.  Read More >>

Heritage, Ancestry and Law: Principles, Policies and Practices in Dealing with Historical Human Remains

Heritage, Ancestry and Law: Principles, Policies and...

Author: Ruth Redmond-Cooper
ISBN: 9781903987377
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Essays... [from] a seminar organised jointly by the Institute of Art and Law and the Natural History Museum --Back...  Read More >>

No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia

No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in...

Author: Saloni Mathur ,  Kavita Singh
ISBN: 9781138796010
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum...  Read More >>

Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

Author: Helen Walasek ,  contributions by Richard Carlton
ISBN: 9781409437048
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically...  Read More >>

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