Museum Studies & Museology

Drawing from a wide range of experience, the authors propose the simple ideas which should underpin all professional museum training courses. Organized on a modular basis, "Museum Basics" provides a basic guide to best practice' in every aspect of museum work, from museum organization, through colle... More

Drawing together a selection of high quality, intellectually robust and stimulating articles on both theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this Reader investigates the closely linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles, from established and world-renowne... More

Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences, her own personal research, and international case studies, Elizabeth Crook here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum. Focusing strongly on areas such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, Aust... More

Recoding the Museum is a cultural reading of how ???new media??? has coded the practices, aspirations and perceptions of the modern museum. Through an historical approach, Ross Parry excavates cultural assumptions and values that provide the basis of museum information management and display, and th... More

This new and revised edition looks at the controversy of how traditional western museums have represented non-western cultures. With a new introduction by the author, this book will continue to influence global museum policy.This new and revised edition looks at the controversy of how traditional we... More

Up from Africa explores the way natural history museum audiences imagine their evolutionary heritage and how meaning is constructed as a result of a dynamic interplay between museum iconography, and the powerful preconceptions they bring with them.Through the use quantitative and qualitative methods... More

"Art History and Its Institutions" focuses on the institutional discourses that shaped and continue to shape the field from its foundation in the nineteenth century. From museums and universities to law courts, labor organizations and photography studios, contributors examine a range of institutions... More

Brings together recent research in this rapidly changing field, blending contributions of academic researchers with museum managers. Papers by practitioners take real-life situations as their starting point and draw upon wider management theory as appropriate. Topics include creative management in m... More

In this original and highly illustrated book Kenneth Hudson reviews the development of the world's museums over the past 200 years by identifying 37 pioneers in ten countries - from the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the outdoor Sukuma Museum in Tanzania and the ... More

How does one turn a house containing artworks into a museum? How does one narrate the story of the lives that were lived there? How authentic can a retrospective reconstruction of interior spaces and their contents be? The contributors of "The Modern Period Room," drawn from a broad range of discipl... More

Quickly vanishing in our own time, less than a century ago family-operated farms were a predominant way of life in North America. Since the 1600s the agriculture practiced on American farms has been a catalyst of both geographic settlement and economic expansion. During the 19th century, four genera... More

How did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernization of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism o... More

Looking back across many centuries and civilizations to trace the same mistakes made over and over again, Of Stones and Man explores how obsession with grandeur resulted in a series of disastrous constructions and consequences for builders of the Pantheon in Paris, the collapsed Beauvais Cathedral, ... More

A nation's heritage is one of the most potent forces for generating tourism: the Tower of London is the greatest "visitor attraction" in Britian, but it seems insignificant in comparison to the numbers of tourists visiting Disney World, Epcot and other entertainment complexes in the United States, w... More

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