Museums & museology books

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How does a changing understanding of the museum’s public role influence the way exhibitions are created today? In...  Read More >>

Collecting Social Media in Museums draws attention to the importance of collecting social media as museum objects...  Read More >>

Collecting Social Media in Museums draws attention to the importance of collecting social media as museum objects...  Read More >>

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

A groundbreaking history of Africa's looted architectural heritage and a bold proposal for the repatriation of...  Read More >>

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A new critical edition of a museum seminar report from 1967, featuring Marshall McLuhan and his collaborator Harley...  Read More >>

Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement,...  Read More >>

The book also proposes new insights based on historical materials regarding the close internal connection between...  Read More >>

Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. This edited collection brings together 20 articles...  Read More >>

Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of...  Read More >>

The book describes the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully...  Read More >>

This book charts the history of Teylers Museum from its inception until Lorentz' tenure. From the vantage point...  Read More >>

This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1987, this book rejects the ‘pay through the nose’ approach to conservation enshrined in...  Read More >>

The national parks of England and Wales are a vital part of the environmental resources of Britain. Originally published...  Read More >>

An exacting study of the activities that marked the First World War Centenary within the UK from 2014 to 2018 that...  Read More >>

This book introduces a Maintainability Index of Heritage Buildings (MIHB) to support the decision-making and prioritisation...  Read More >>

This Handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the intersections between cultural heritage...  Read More >>

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This comprehensive volume highlights and centres untold histories of education at MoMA from 1937-2020, using the...  Read More >>

Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original, previously...  Read More >>

This book gives readers detailed explanations of the techniques used to map and monitor the built and natural environment...  Read More >>