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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A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London)......more

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

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

Twenty renowned international curators write about the exhibition or project that transformed their ideas about curating......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

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

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

Advances in Paleoimaging: Applications for Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Forensics, and Cultural Artifacts builds o......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

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

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

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

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approa......more

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

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

Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family p......more

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

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

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South Africa......more

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

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

The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying and human re......more

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

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

A manifesto on the state of the non-profit arts sector and the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity leaders have to redefine t......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

Reflecting Fifty Years commemorates five decades of artistic innovation and cultural enrichment at Washington State Univ......more

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

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

This book tells the story of the unifying of two major institutions during a turning point in American public art educat......more

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

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

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

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

Peter Sloterdik sees our digitalized world in a "growing spatial crisis", accompanied by the danger of a "general virtua......more

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

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

Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage brings together best examples and practices of di......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

’Eloquent and powerful ... an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was ......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

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland......more

◙ This big format Sketchbook was designed for artists and creatives to use everywhere they go! Our on-trend Kraft cover ......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

Put the past behind you with a whole year full of famous derrières in art! From the lusciously rendered bottoms of Renai......more

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

In many contemporary societies we encounter iconoclasm breaking out with renewed violence. Iconoclastic actions against ......more