Museums & museology books

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The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the...  Read More >>

We want to keep as much as we can of our cultural and natural heritage but find ourselves unable to afford to save...  Read More >>

Well-executed exhibits in libraries and museums can make attendance numbers skyrocket. This text aims to help the...  Read More >>

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The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the...  Read More >>

Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and...  Read More >>

The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. This volume highlights...  Read More >>

This is a guide to the process of planning, designing, producing and evaluating exhibitions for museums. Subjects...  Read More >>

What does a jar of preserved leopard frogs or the reconstructed skeleton of a sperm whale that washed up on a beach...  Read More >>

Citing a range of examples, this surveys the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made...  Read More >>

This volume comprises the papers presented at the conservation science meeting held in Glasgow in May, 1993. It...  Read More >>

Part of a series on making history in museums, this volume examines the role which museums play in providing a public...  Read More >>

Denver's Conservation Library was established in 1960 as a repository for environmental and conservation documents....  Read More >>

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Since it opened its doors in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 15 million...  Read More >>

Beginning with an account of the discourse of appropriation that dominated the art world in the late 1970s and 1980s,...  Read More >>

An illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This book tells the stories behind...  Read More >>

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The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of...  Read More >>

A discussion of non-destructive spectrophotometric tools and techniques used during the technical examination of...  Read More >>

Traces the history of the Ashmolean Museum and its collections from its origin as a cabinet of curiosities, to proto-scientific...  Read More >>