Museums & museology books

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Museum Administration is the handbook for students, new professionals, and anyone who needs to know what goes into...  Read More >>

In 2000, the University of Virginia Art Museum mounted an exhibition called """"Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the...  Read More >>

In December of 2003, the National Museum of Romance in Tristia, New Jersey, closed its doors due to lack of funding....  Read More >>

Explores the role of arts, architecture, museums and cultural industries in regenerating urban centers.  Read More >>

Explores the role of arts, architecture, museums and cultural industries in regenerating urban centers.  Read More >>

Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to...  Read More >>

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An intellectual biography of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. founding director of the Museum of Modern Art.  Read More >>

This volume examines the meaning of museum architecture in the urban environment, considering important issues such...  Read More >>

Often museums or libraries have the power to profoundly alter our sense of ourselves and of the world around us,...  Read More >>

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This introduction to the vast and extraordinarily diverse collection of Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) is published...  Read More >>

What begins as a meditation on ""the museum"" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book,...  Read More >>

This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned...  Read More >>

This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned...  Read More >>

Often museums or libraries have the power to profoundly alter our sense of ourselves and of the world around us,...  Read More >>

Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather...  Read More >>

What begins as a meditation on ""the museum"" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book,...  Read More >>

Museums worldwide face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This manual focuses on...  Read More >>

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Known in Europe as interpretive narrative archaeology , the practice of using creative methods to interpret and...  Read More >>

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This textbook is directed at students approaching heritage as a combined field of study for the first time. The...  Read More >>

Folk art was neither widely collected nor highly valued in the early 1900s, when globetrotting Chicago socialite...  Read More >>