From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic o......more

The Innovation and influence of the first children’s museums in the US When it opened in 1899, the Brooklyn Children’s M......more

The Innovation and influence of the first children’s museums in the US When it opened in 1899, the Brooklyn Children’s M......more

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the......more

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the......more

How to Think About Museums: A Guide with Exercises is a lively introduction to the key issues in the contemporary multid......more

This new book recovers a path-breaking venture in museology from the late 1960s that has largely gone unnoticed. In 1967......more

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Why modern and contemporary art--and art conservation--can’t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary i......more

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An enchanting and illuminating exploration of the history of craftmanship and the world’s oldest craft traditions, docum......more

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A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thoug......more

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Envisioning new ways to imagine the future through activist approaches to archivism Traditional archivism runs the risk ......more

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Museums face a reckoning. Thrust to the forefront of difficult conversations around toxic philanthropy, increased corpor......more

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Bridging scholarly research and conservation practice, this volume presents fundamental guidance on the preservation of ......more

Calling attention to the unseen mediation and re-mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this ground......more

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Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lex......more

Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology is an illustrated monograph articulated through a comprehensive lex......more

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Featuring 55 gorgeous full-color images of diverse Smithsonian objects, this wire-bound, weekly calendar is like visitin......more

Combating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regi......more

Combating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regi......more

The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interaction, multisensory experiences that can be understood internation......more

Museum Basics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to professional practice in museums, galleries and r......more

Museum Basics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to professional practice in museums, galleries and r......more

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Utilizing case studies from Caribbean and Latin American history, Cruz redefines artistic and cultural practices within ......more

This groundbreaking book provides the first material study of the celebrated contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, known wo......more

Displays of Belonging illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought to preserv......more

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics......more

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums is filled with creative fodder for practitioners who wish to make more memor......more

Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by f......more

Museum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by f......more

The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education is a practical reference guide that shows how museums, galleries......more

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Sea of Islands brings together knowledge holders, scholars, and artists from across the Pacific with Western scholars wo......more

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"The first comprehensive study of New York art patron and collector Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931), examining her influenti......more

Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care provides a comprehensive and inclusive overview of theory, resea......more

Literary Heritage examines the literary heritage sector in the post-pandemic moment. The book argues that this is a uniq......more

This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1......more

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender offers an exceptional range of international contributions that interrogat......more

This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typogr......more

In The Culture Box, Harley Parker applies Marshall McLuhan’s medium theory to the museum, analyzing the museum as the si......more

The Visitor Studies Guide offers an up-to-date overview of the rapidly expanding field of theory and research practice r......more

In Rhetorics of Value, Corinne A. Kratz explores how exhibition design creates and conveys values that have the potentia......more

A timely reflection on the Museum of Modern Art’s collection. The opening of a new museum building offers a unique momen......more

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The interactive, accessible and research-backed guide to setting your museum on a path toward a sustainable future Based......more

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A colourful illustrated history of the buildings in Vancouver’s Chinatown, celebrating the richness, diversity, and vibr......more

This volume analyzes forms of collective resilience through manifestations of strength-in-fragility in selected communit......more

First published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from th......more

"Discover the incredible history of how the Smithsonian and the United States grew alongside each other"--...more

Enveloping Worlds is a collection of essays that analyzes the phenomenon of immersive, participatory performance as it h......more

In July 1980 London’s National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson an......more

Caring for Plastics in Collections presents basic knowledge of plastics in an accessible way and empowers readers to det......more

Care has become a trend in the art field, but much of the recent curatorial focus seems to be limited to symbolic gestur......more

In July 1980 London’s National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson an......more

Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts examines collaborative practices in museums, heritage, ......more

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Heritage, Authority and Power examines who holds power and authority in heritage, the connection with specialist knowled......more

Art that questions the museum’s role in assigning meaning to cultural artifact This thought-provoking volume focuses on ......more