Museums & museology books

This book studies how people negotiate difficult heritage within their everyday lives, focusing on memory, belonging,...  Read More >>

The robbery and looting of the German armed forces in the USSR was followed by the transport of German cultural...  Read More >>

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The Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in Asia Minor and the Population Exchange that followed led to the forced displacement...  Read More >>

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"""Craft and Heritage argues for a critical and sustained engagement between the fields of craft and heritage. The...  Read More >>

Museums and Nationalism in Croatia, Hungary, and Turkey draws attention to museums as political productions of the...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle...  Read More >>

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This book centers on museum management with particular focus on risk management. Additional topics such as strategic...  Read More >>

A landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Maori society. This beautifully...  Read More >>

The material for this book arose from the author’s research into porcelains over many years, as a collector in appreciation...  Read More >>

Site-specific installations are created for specific locations and are usually intended as temporary artworks. The...  Read More >>

"English summary: Why is it that culture nowadays is hardly considered powerful whereas Jacob Burckhardt in his...  Read More >>

This volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks,...  Read More >>

A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris.  Read More >>

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Contributors take note of differing aspects of memorial culture, such as those embedded in war memorials, mass grave...  Read More >>

Since prehistoric times and throughout the course of human evolution, wood has been an integral part of all civilizations....  Read More >>

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives...  Read More >>

This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town. By looking...  Read More >>

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

Nineteenth-century “salvage anthropology” preserved millions of Indigenous objects, sources of knowledge invaluable...  Read More >>

Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth...  Read More >>