Museums & museology books

This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape,...  Read More >>

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The power of example, the power of attraction through culture or, in other words, the ability of a country to attract...  Read More >>

An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible to All helps historic sites and house museums understand what...  Read More >>

""In a world where ethnographic collections and institutions are increasingly questioned as lingering vestiges of...  Read More >>

An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible to All helps historic sites and house museums understand what...  Read More >>

This book is intended to help university museum leaders to help them plan strategically in the context of the issues...  Read More >>

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It offers vital context and guidance for those working in heritage management and also presents emerging cultural...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, illustrated history of the British heritage industry, from art historian and former Sotheby's Chairman...  Read More >>

The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec...  Read More >>

Museums and art galleries are fascinating windows into the past; they provide us with a fresh perspective from which...  Read More >>

This book explores the theoretical & architectural connections.  Read More >>

This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held...  Read More >>

This book focuses on performance and performance-based artworks as seen through the lens of conservation, which...  Read More >>

The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the...  Read More >>

Focusing on case studies from across Europe, this collection examines both the objective and the subjective aspects...  Read More >>

English summary: The Berlin Museums Yearbook is published by the National Museums in Berlin, one of the largest...  Read More >>

The essays in this book discuss how museums are at the center of multiple world-wide crises.  Read More >>

This book critically engages with and extends international approaches to progressing real-world and scholarly change...  Read More >>

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A multiauthored portrait of the Swiss open-air museum documenting centuries of historic homes and the enchanting...  Read More >>

Explores the dynamics of African masquerades and mask performances on the continent, linking performative expressions...  Read More >>

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This book is of interest to students and researchers of heritage studies, tourism management, cultural studies,...  Read More >>