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

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

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

She helped found MoMA and pioneered the promotion of work of American and French modern artists at the turn of the 20th ......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

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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

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

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

Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts explores the challenges and opportunities that arise wh......more

A new edition of the bible of U.S. collections management--now updated for the 21st-century museum professional or Museu......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

Participation and the Post-Museum discusses the concept of participation in museum practice, as well as ideas that const......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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The essential reference for anyone engaged in the material study of cast bronze sculpture. Since the fourth millennium B......more

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

The first comprehensive study of Cassatt’s life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework. This b......more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Celebrates the design of Australia’s newest cultural landmark SANAA’s new building for the Art Gallery of New South Wale......more

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

Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the inter......more

This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seek......more

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions.......more

Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester,......more

"This interdisciplinary anthology presents 10 chapters from a range of scholars in art history, cultural studies and ant......more

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stor......more

Leadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations: A Practical Guide is the first book to provide guidance ......more

Leadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations: A Practical Guide is the first book to provide guidance ......more

Experimental Design and Scientific Data Analysis provides accessible information about the research process from start t......more