Museums & museology books

This book presents an innovative approach to the strategic management perspective in the museum context. The presented...  Read More >>

In the new millennium, many public monuments and statues around the world have become the target of protest. These...  Read More >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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

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This book examines China's heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple...  Read More >>

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

This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient...  Read More >>

This book explores one of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, that...  Read More >>

This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency...  Read More >>

David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theatre in Amsterdam used for the registration and...  Read More >>

The only booklength account of collective remembering and analysis of how the 1989 Beijing student movement and...  Read More >>

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

World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka analyses how the World Heritage 'label' is being used by different actors...  Read More >>