The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevat......more

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S......more

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S......more

This debut book by the popular collaborative team--heralded as one of the first truly new critical voices of the 21st ce......more

It focuses on digital museums in the context of Vietnam and contributes to global discussions on the development of digi......more

The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are invo......more

Crafting Museum Social Media for Social Inclusion Work investigates if and how social media can be integrated into the s......more

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Future Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, partic......more

This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immat......more

Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to exp......more

Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to exp......more

In 1925, Pius XI staged the Vatican Missionary Exposition in Rome’s Vatican City. Offering a narrative of the Catholic C......more

Culture in CrisisThe right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the ......more

Museums as Ritual Sites critically examines the assumption that museums inherently function as ritual sites and, in turn......more

Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation’s Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smi......more

Imagine leading lively museum discussions with confidence, knowing exactly which questions to ask and when, engaging you......more

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

Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflec......more

Museums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums....more

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and e......more

Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscrip......more

The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage......more

John Ruskin’s critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his time, established him as a leading criti......more

This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their h......more

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of N......more

Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences......more

"Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from......more

Defines and models the concept of a cultural archives focusing on how diverse communities express and record their herit......more

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged - in......more

This book presents over twenty authors’ reflections on ’curating care’ - and presents a call to give curatorial attentio......more

This volume is the first to evaluate current practices and conceptual frameworks that have developed around the collecti......more

Celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges On an afternoo......more

Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawin......more

Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawin......more

Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive explores the possibilities of archival......more

Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility st......more

’Wicked Problems’ are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not i......more

Leiden University has an impressive collection of primary texts in various Middle Eastern languages such as Arabic, Pers......more

In Italy, art historians can study wall-paintings, tombs, and stained-glass windows in the early churches for which they......more

A spirited guide to the century-old diorama halls at Los Angeles’ Natural History Museum, where habitats across the glob......more

A powerful, timely and thought-provoking exploration of the transformative role of the museum--and of art--in society to......more

The successes and challenges of working collaboratively are brought to the fore in this volume of papers presented at th......more

The fate of heritage in war has attracted considerable attention in recent years, due in no small part to ISIS’s campaig......more

Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find......more

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees Editors: Sant Khalsa and Juniper Harrower Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees fo......more

Whose Heritage? challenges and re-imagines what is ’heritage’ in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan ’post......more

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value - the Venice A......more

Financial Management in Museums considers sustainable and innovative solutions to current museum financial challenges by......more

Financial Management in Museums considers sustainable and innovative solutions to current museum financial challenges by......more

This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authen......more

Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact inst......more

Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact inst......more

Novel research approaches that challenge conventional curatorial and institutional practices Published within the contex......more

In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that ......more

Are you fully prepared for any eventuality that might strike your film or tape collection? Does your organisation have a......more

In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that ......more

This study evaluates how Chinese museums present Palaeolithic archaeology and contextualises museum narratives of human ......more

This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing ......more

This open-access publication provides essential guidance on digital inventories and surveys for the identification, cons......more

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China’s Heritage through History employs a longue durée approach to examine China’s heritage through history. From Imper......more

This book is the first volume of the ICOM Museum Practice series. eExploresing contemporary practices in the field of mu......more

This book is the first volume of the ICOM Museum Practice series. eExploresing contemporary practices in the field of mu......more

This study charts how exhibitions were used for propaganda and political intervention during the two decades from 1933: ......more

Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century addresses the largely under-exa......more

"A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition"--Publishers Weekly "An impressive critique of the universal museum......more

European countries, including the Netherlands, are increasingly more willing to return looted art to their former coloni......more

Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation o......more

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How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary manne......more

Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Aus......more

The history of American ceramics is far better documented than that of other crafts, yet many untold stories remain. Une......more