Museum Studies Books

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21. Museum Basics

    3rd Edition

    By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine

    Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

    Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has therefore been produced...

    Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
22. Museum Making

    Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

    Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale

    Series: Museum Meanings

    Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built...

    Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
23. Scholars, Travellers and Trade

    The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840

    By R. B. Halbertsma

    Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about?Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
24. Transforming Museums in the Twenty-first Century

    By Graham Black

    In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences – and this root and branch change would be necessary whether or not museums faced a funding crisis. It is the result of the impact of new technologies and the rapid...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
25. Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries

    By Christopher Whitehead

    In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the aesthetic experience and ideas about learning and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
26. Preventive Conservation in Museums

    Edited by Chris Caple

    Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

    Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession. It bridges the gap between the basic...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
27. Experiencing the Past

    On the Character of Archaeology

    By Michael Shanks

    Series: Material Cultures

    In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches....

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
28. Museum Volunteers

    Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers

    By Sinclair Goodlad, Stephanie McIvor

    Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

    Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism.This book:* reviews research on the changing priorities of museums*...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
29. Museums and Their Visitors

    By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

    Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

    Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
30. The Presented Past

    Heritage, Museums and Education

    By B. L. Molyneaux, P. G. Stone

    Series: One World Archaeology

    The Presented Past is concerned with the differences between the comparatively static, well-understood way in which the past is presented in schools, museums and at historic sites compared to the approaches currently being explored in contemporary archaeology. It challenges the all-too-frequent...

    Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge