Museums & museology books

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Museums, Libraries and Urban Vitality: A Handbook

Museums, Libraries and Urban Vitality: A Handbook

Author: Roger L. Kemp ,  Marcia Trotta
ISBN: 9780786434688
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Students and Novices

Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Students and Novices...

Author: N Elizabeth Schlatter
ISBN: 9781598740431
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Expert curator Elizabeth Schlatter outlines the types of jobs available within museums, the kinds of training needed,...  Read More >>

Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our...

Author: James Cuno
ISBN: 9780691137124
Format: Hardback
$65.87

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The Practice of Public Art

The Practice of Public Art

Author: Cameron Cartiere (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) ,  Shelly Willis (Shelly Willis, University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780415962926
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Offers differing perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. This book examines the continual evolution...  Read More >>

Touching Vision: Essays on Restoration Theory and the Perception of Art

Touching Vision: Essays on Restoration Theory and the...

Author: Schinzel
ISBN: 9789054873525
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification

The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification

Author: Christopher Hitchens ,  Charalamabos Bouras
ISBN: 9781844672523
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The opening of the Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the...  Read More >>

Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and Philosophy

Museum Origins: Readings in Early Museum History and...

Author: Hugh H Genoways ,  Mary Anne Andrei
ISBN: 9781598741964
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from the formative period...  Read More >>

National Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums

National Standards and Best Practices for U.S. Museums...

Author: Elizabeth E. Merritt ,  Elizabeth E Merritt
ISBN: 9781933253114
Format: Paperback
$60.59

For the first time, the U.S. museum profession's current operating standards in areas from public accountability...  Read More >>

Mastering a Museum Plan: Strategies for Exhibit Development

Mastering a Museum Plan: Strategies for Exhibit Development...

Author: Dirk Houtgraaf ,  Vanda Vitali
ISBN: 9789073239999
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Mastering a Museum Plan provides an optimal structure for successful planning, one that allows a museum to articulate...  Read More >>

Where is Queer?: Museums & Social Issues 3:1 Thematic Issue

Where is Queer?: Museums & Social Issues 3:1 Thematic...

Author: John Fraser ,  Joe E Heimlich
ISBN: 9781598748079
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book addresses heteronormativism, a concept that is extremely important for understanding visitors' ability...  Read More >>

(Re)Visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium

(Re)Visualizing National History: Museums and National...

Author: Robin Ostow
ISBN: 9780802092212
Format: Hardback
$150.48

(Re)Visualizing National History is a unique and interdisciplinary volume that offers insights on the dilemmas of...  Read More >>

Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Author: Daniel B. Reibel
ISBN: 9780759111318
Format: Paperback
$81.71

A guide to registration methodology. This title covers the various aspects of the registration of museum collections....  Read More >>

The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources

The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of...

Author: Jonah Siegel (Professor of English, Professor of English, Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780195331134
Format: Hardback
$164.95

What should a museum contain or exclude? Who does a museum hope to attract? What, in fact, is the purpose of a museum?...  Read More >>

Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Author: Daniel B. Reibel
ISBN: 9780759111301
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A guide to registration methodology. This title covers the various aspects of the registration of museum collections....  Read More >>

To Inspire and Instruct: A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums

To Inspire and Instruct: A History of Medieval Art in...

Author: Christina Nielsen
ISBN: 9781847183316
Format: Hardback
$139.89

This collection of essays, which derive from a symposium held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, tells the...  Read More >>

Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums

Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small...

Author: Alice Parman ,  Jeffrey Jane Flowers
ISBN: 9780759109964
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A hands-on workbook to guide staff and volunteers through exhibit planning, design, fabrication, and installation...  Read More >>

Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers, and Community Groups

Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum...

Author: John H. Jameson ,  Sherene Baugher
ISBN: 9780387769806
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Numerous applications of public interpretation and outreach models and an increased interest in establishing partnerships...  Read More >>

The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context

The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage...

Author: Elizabeth Pye
ISBN: 9781598743043
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in museums and other cultural institutions...  Read More >>

Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum: Volume 3

Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum: Volume 3

Author: Supreme Council of Antiquities
ISBN: 9789774372964
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum is a regular Egyptological forum for scholarly discussion of the various aspects...  Read More >>

Strawbery Banke

Strawbery Banke

Author: J. Dennis Robinson ,  Ralph Morang
ISBN: 9780960389629
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport spans 400 years in 400 pages with over...  Read More >>

Museum - Spiegel Der Nation?: Zugange Zur Historischen Museologie Am Beispiel Der Genese Von Landes- Und Nationalmuseen in Der Habsburgermonarchie

Museum - Spiegel Der Nation?: Zugange Zur Historischen...

Author: Marlies Raffler
ISBN: 9783205777311
Format: Paperback
$179.52

Originally presented as the author's Habilitationsschrift--Karl Franzens-Universitèat Graz, 2005.  Read More >>

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