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This catalogue of books on museum studies is the most comprehensive booklist on the subject issued anywhere in the world.
Our new catalogue contains approximately 60 new titles relevant to every aspect of museology, plus an extensive backlist. |
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Museum Studies Titles
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Museums & Difference Sherman, D (Editor) Indiana University Press ISBN : 9780253219350, 2008, £19.99
Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference - notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race - have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice.
Museums and Difference offers the perspectives of scholars and museum professionals in tandem, using the concept of difference to reexamine how museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics. Essays explore a wide range of examples from around the world and from the 19th century to the present, including case studies of special exhibitions as well as broad surveys of institutions in Europe, the United States, and Japan. |
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Lost in the Museum : Buried Treasures and the Stories They Tell Moses, N AltaMira Press ISBN : 9780759110700, 2008, £14.99
Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the 'employees only' doors to uncover the stories buried - along with the objects - in the crypts of museums, historical societies and archives. Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world, the precarious balance of art, culture and politics that keep items, for decades, lost in the museum. |
The Heritage Reader Fairclough, G et al (Editors) Routledge ISBN : 9780415372862, 2008, £27.50
This major new resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principals and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and innovative works in the field, with geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.
With good coverage of major issues and solutions from around the world, The Heritage Reader will appeal to students internationally across the English-speaking world, and will stand proud as a key guide to the study and practice of heritage management. |
New Heritage : New Media and Cultural Heritage Kalay, Y et al (Editors) Routledge ISBN : 9780415773560, 2008, £23.99
The use of new media in the service of cultural heritage is a fast growing field, known variously as virtual or digital heritage. New Heritage, under this denomination, broadens the definition of the field to address the complexity of cultural heritage such as the related social, political and economic issues.
This book is a collection of 20 key essays, of authors from 11 countries, representing a wide range of professions including architecture, philosophy, history, cultural heritage management, new media, museology and computer science, which examine the application of new media to cultural heritage from a different points of view. Issues surrounding heritage interpretation to the public and the attempts to capture the essence of both tangible (buildings, monuments) and intangible (customs, rituals) cultural heritage are investigated in a series of innovative case studies. |
Hands On : Learning from Objects & Paintings : A Teacher's Guide (Early Years/Primary) Glasgow Museums Scottish Museums Council ISBN : 9780902752863, September 2007, £12.00
The authors of Hands On draw on their wealth of experience as educators with Glasgow Museums helping teachers and others to use objects and paintings effectively. It is aimed at early years and primary educators. Discrete activities have been devised for each sector as a guidline for progression, but within these activities there is flexibility, especially for children with English as an additional language or with additional support needs. |
Towards an Engaged Gallery Contemporary Art & Human Rights : GoMA's Social Justice Programme Bruce, K & Hollows, V Culture & Sport Glasgow (Museums) ISBN : 9780902752887, 2007, £12.00
How does a contemporary art gallery - or indeed any museum or gallery - begin to address difficult issues such as violence against women, delivering services for asylum seekers or sectarianism? Focusing on the 'Rule of Thumb' programme on violence against women, this publication is a record of how The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) rose to the challenge, what worked - and what didn't - and what was learnt from the process. |
Museums & Education : Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance Hooper-Greenhill, E Routledge ISBN : 0415379369, 2007, £23.99
The calibration of culture is an international phenomenon, and the measurement of the outcomes and impact of learning in museums in England has provided a detailed case study. Three national evaluation studies were carried out between 2003 and 2006 based on the conceptual framework of Generic Learning Outcomes. Using this revealing data Museums and Education reveals the power of museum pedagogy and as it does, questions are raised about traditional museum culture and the potential and challenge for museum futures is suggested. |
Rethinking Evolution in the Museum : Envisioning African Origins Scott, M Routledge ISBN : 0415405408, 2007, £22.99
Although museological theory has come increasingly to recognize that museum audiences 'make meaning' in exhibitions, or make their own complex interpretations of museum exhibitions, few scholars have explicitly asked how. Rethinking Evolution in the Museum, however, provides a rare window into visitor perceptions at four world-class museums - the Natural History Museum and Horniman Museum in London, the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through rigorous and novel mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) covering nearly 500 museum visitors, this innovative study shows that audiences of human origins exhibitions interpret evolution exhibitions through a profoundly complex convergence of personal, political, intellectual, emotional and cultural interpretive strategies. |
Recoding the Museums Parry, R Routledge ISBN : 0415353882, 2007, £22.99
Drawing upon an impressive range of professional and theoretical sources, this book offers one of the first substantial histories of museum computing. Its ambitious narrative attempts to explain a series of essential tensions between curatorship and the digital realm.
Ultimately, it reveals how through the emergence of standards, increased coordination, and celebration (rather than fearing) of the 'virtual', the sector has experienced a broadening of participation, a widening of creative horizons and, ultimately, has helped to define a new cultural role for museums. Having confronted and understood its past, what emerges is a museum transformed - rescripted, recalibrated, rewritten, reorganised. |
Museums in the Material World Knell, S Routledge ISBN : 041541699X, 2007, £27.50
Museums in the Material World clarifies and expands the horizons of material culture studies as they pertain to museums and opens the eyes of students from a range of disciplines to a much broader understanding of the complexities and subtleties of the museum engagement with the material world. In essence, this is a book about the practice of interpretation and will therefore be of great use to those students of museums and museum practioners. |
Museum Revolutions Knell, S et al Routledge ISBN : 0415444675, 2007, £25.99
While change has been on the museum professional's agenda for twenty years, this book is the first to reveal its complexity and frame it in the context of contemporary museum studies. In doing so, it captures the richness of the field of museum studies at a time when it has achieved a new level of maturity and international cohesiveness. Museum Revolutions is the ideal text for Museum Studies courses, providing a wide range of interlinked themes and the latest thought and research from experts in the field. It is invaluable for those students, researchers and museum professionals who want to understand the past, present and future of the museum and the intellectual richness and diversity of the field of museum studies. |
Museums & Their Communities Watson, S Routledge ISBN : 0415402603 , 2007, £27.50
Museums and their Communities brings together a colletion of readings from practitioners and researchers, working across a range of disciplines, which explore and illuminate the complex and evolving relationships between museums and the diverse communities they represent, serve and with which they engage. |
Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship Benedetti, J Scarecrow Press ISBN : 0810859211 , 2007, £30.00
This introduction to the field of art museum librarianship and its diverse settings addresses the topics of leadership, reader services, automation, security, cataloging, space planning, collection development, visual resources, ephemera, special collections, archives, fundraising, public relations, volunteers and interns, professional development, and solo librarianship. |
Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse Cameron, F & Kenderdine, S The MIT Press ISBN : 0262033534 , 2007, £25.95
This book features theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage. In Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage, experts offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of the uses of digital media by cultural heritage institutions. |
In Principle, in Practice: Museums as Learning Institutions Falk, J et al AltaMira Press ISBN : 075910977X, 2007, £19.99
By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice aims to promote effective programs and exhibitions, identify promising approaches for future research, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining connections between research and practice in the museum community. |
Irish Intellectuals and Aesthetics: The Making of a Modern Art Collection Herrero, M Irish Academic Press ISBN : 0716533286, 2007, £20.00
In this book the author offers a novel sociological approach to art collecting with a study of the practices involved in the making of the collection for the Irish Musem of Modern Art in Dublin. Drawing on the work of sociologists Zygmunt Bauman and Pierre Bourdieu on intellectuals, it argues that art collecting can be theorised as a form of intellectual practice whereby art objects are assigned collecting value. The study is based on interviews with professionals in Dublin's art world, museum, gallery directors and curators. |
Human Remains & Museum Practice Lohman, J & Goodnow, K UNESCO & the Museum of London ISBN : 9231040219 , 2007, £35.00
Human Remains & Museum Practice explores fundamental issues of collecting and displaying human remains, including ethics, interpretation and repatriation as they apply in different parts of the world. This volume reflects the Museum of London as part of an international symposium on the political and ethical dimensions of the collection and display of human remains in museums. |
The Manual of Museum Learning Lord, B AltaMira Press ISBN : 0759109710, 2007, £26.00
Recognizing that museum learning is a vital component of the lifelong learning process that increasingly shapes the development of twenty-first-century individuals, Barry Lord collects a group of experts to offer museums and related institutions (including galleries, zoos and botanical gardens) practical strategies for creating aesthetic and intellectual experiences with learning opportunities that can inspire visitors throughout a lifetime. |
The Manual of Strategic Planning for Museums Lord, G & Markert, K AltaMira Press ISBN : 0759109699 , 2007, £19.99
There can be few announcements in the life of a museum that inspire more varied responses than, "It's time for a new strategic plan. The Manual of Strategic Planning for Museums offers proven methods for successful strategic planning in museums from two experienced leaders in the field. |
Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective Weibel, P & Buddensieg, A Hatje Cantz,Germany ISBN : 3775719334, 2007, £19.99
The Global art production, as a new and controversial phenomenon, affects the future of art museums in many ways. This book focuses on the reciprocal impact of contemporary non-Western art and local museums all over the world. It assembles a group of art critics, anthropologists and museum curators who address the identity of the museum and its change from a variety of viewpoints that reflect their different backgrounds. |