Museums & museology books

"Museum studies today understand museums as symbolic spaces shaping, staging, and disseminating images and imaginaries...  Read More >>

The contributors cover a wide spectrum of issues in heritage studies, such as heritage management, accessibility...  Read More >>

By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum...  Read More >>

Exploring the laws issued to care for monuments and artefacts in 15th- to 18th-century Europe, to uncover the origins...  Read More >>

Exploring the laws issued to care for monuments and artefacts in 15th- to 18th-century Europe, to uncover the origins...  Read More >>

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What Photographs Do explores the photographic archives of the V&A to understand how museums are defined through...  Read More >>

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A photographic investigation into ethnographic museums and sites of cross-cultural encounters  Read More >>

Through photography, this book revisits the places museum collections were made, and the places they ended up in....  Read More >>

Discussion of the use and misuse of classical Antiquity in twenty-first-century museums and political discourse....  Read More >>

"How to manage an artist's estate in the 21st century, with case studies from the estates of de Kooning, Judd, Mapplethorpe...  Read More >>

Examines how creative arts and memory institutions selectively commemorate or often outright ignore stark histories...  Read More >>

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...great guide for anyone interested in the details of art galleries. -Kathrine Erickson, Owner, Evoke Contemporary...  Read More >>

Examines how creative arts and memory institutions selectively commemorate or often outright ignore stark histories...  Read More >>

This book charts the city of Tripoli, Libya and it’s rapid economic, environmental and physical transformation,...  Read More >>

Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care. The idealized Western...  Read More >>

The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second...  Read More >>

This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. World Heritage),...  Read More >>

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This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. World Heritage),...  Read More >>

Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast...  Read More >>

Museums and Well-being outlines the historical development of well-being within museums and offers a critical engagement...  Read More >>