Museum Studies

This valuable resource looks at the need of the heritage industry to repond sensitively to the limitations or potentials of the environment...

This valuable resource looks at the need of the heritage industry to repond sensitively to the limitations or potentials of the environment...

Belgian Museums of the Great War examines Belgian museums in their handling of the centennial of World War I. It studies their histories and the changes made in advance of the anniversary, and considers the site-specificity of each institution and its architectural frame. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_..

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature, but gaps between science and society limit government and industry capacity to engage with communities to broker innovative solutions to climate change. Drawing on l..

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature, but gaps between science and society limit government and industry capacity to engage with communities to broker innovative solutions to climate change. Drawing on l..

This extensive work not only describes the nature of conservation but also provides an ethical framework to which the conservation of objects as diverse as Old Masters to the ephemera of the twentieth century can be related...

This book examines why human remains in museum collections have become controversial in the last three decades. It establishes that the issue has been promoted by influential members of the sector as part of a broader attempt to distance themselves from their foundational role as a consequence of a ..

Critical Practice is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries among art history, museum studies, political science and applied ethics. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to represent key developments in institutional critique as they impact museums. The book elucidates the museological and et..

Critical Practice is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries among art history, museum studies, political science and applied ethics. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to represent key developments in institutional critique as they impact museums. The book elucidates the museological and et..

The in-depth, visitor-centered research underlying this book offers nuanced understandings of the interface between visitors and exhibition environments. Museum educators, designers, interpreters, curators, researchers, and evaluators will find this framework of value in both daily practice and futu..

Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of invention in museum studies; another is the distancing of academic museum studies from museum practice. Doing Museology Differently charts a different course. ..

Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of invention in museum studies; another is the distancing of academic museum studies from museum practice. Doing Museology Differently charts a different course. ..