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

Over the past few years an increasing number of museums have experimented with social media to demonstrate that they are......more

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

An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, London The N......more

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

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like......more

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It mar......more

This book investigates the role played by copyright on the digitisation of cultural heritage from 3 angles: the theoreti......more

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The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums. We all know what a mummy i......more

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

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

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

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collec......more

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

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

Discover the incredible history of the Smithsonian as it grew to meet the needs of a nation Follow the fascinating growt......more

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

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

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

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

"Bringing together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals, and spanning two centuries a......more

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

Reimagining both the House Museum and Reconstruction memory for the twenty-first century In Rebirth, public historian Je......more

Reimagining both the House Museum and Reconstruction memory for the twenty-first century In Rebirth, public historian Je......more

Mobile Heritage explores how recent mobile technologies (such as apps, mobile accessible platforms, games, AR, MR, drone......more

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

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

"A new edition of the go-to guide for US collections management-the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions......more

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

This comprehensive tome covers all aspects of Picasso’s artistic career, from self- portraits to sculpture to photograph......more

The rich history of a centuries-old document security technology--folding and securing a letter into its own envelope fo......more

"In recent years, museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories and legacies, many of which have......more

The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the ’museum movement’ of the early twentieth century, whic......more

Alternative Economies of Heritage is a groundbreaking edited volume that critically evaluates how the ’work’ of heritage......more

How Museums Tell Stories is the first book to try to explain how museums "work" as a medium that narrates stories, both ......more

How Museums Tell Stories is the first book to try to explain how museums "work" as a medium that narrates stories, both ......more

This collection of essays investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explore......more

Through a diverse collection of expert voices, this volume invites readers to embark on their own journeys through appro......more

Through a diverse collection of expert voices, this volume invites readers to embark on their own journeys through appro......more

Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice brings into focus the knowledges, value systems, ethics and workplace......more

Assessing the Social Values of Heritage considers how social values can be better understood and incorporated into the d......more

Essays, mind maps, codes of conduct and more offer guidelines for cultural institutions to make and maintain accessible,......more

The Museum in Asia advances an understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of ......more

The Museum in Asia advances an understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of ......more

This study reassesses Cage’s multifaceted practice from a transdisciplinary perspective, using text as a premise for his......more

How can exhibitions not only stage existing knowledge, but also raise questions that might eventually lead to new resear......more

"An authoritative, beautifully illustrated study."--Kirkus Reviews The first comprehensive study of Cassatt’s life, work......more

Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continen......more

A subjective, candid, multi-vocal story about the creation of the building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Warsaw......more

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National......more

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

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum volume engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impai......more

Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, w......more

Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, w......more

Grappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world ......more

Working with Conservation Data provides a practical, step-by-step guide that describes how to approach the issue of docu......more

Working with Conservation Data provides a practical, step-by-step guide that describes how to approach the issue of docu......more

The Conservator’s Cookbook is a collection of practical, step-by-step guides outlining how to prepare various solutions,......more

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the ......more

Museums and Mass Violence examines the varied ways in which museums around the world address - or fail to address - the ......more

Colour, Colour Measurement and Colour Change, the first new book in the expanded Science for Conservators series, explai......more

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies o......more

This new edition titled Adhesives, Coatings and Consolidants discusses the chemical, physical, and optical properties th......more

In recent years, not only ethnographic collections, but also the European canon of art history have come under siege. Th......more

"In this book, Amanda Cachia argues that contemporary disabled artists make inequities in the museum more transparent by......more

"In this book, Amanda Cachia argues that contemporary disabled artists make inequities in the museum more transparent by......more

What Kirkus describes as a "masterful revelation about life and art imitating each other in maintenance and repair" in a......more

Insights from Visitor Studies: A purpose-oriented model for museums provides a systematic overview of the value of visit......more

The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is an enlightening, transatlantic reading of ......more