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1. Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience

   By Tiina Roppola

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

   Ambiguous Engagements

   Edited by Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
3. Exhibiting Madness in Museums

   Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

   Edited by Catharine Coleborne, Dolly MacKinnon

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

   Edited by Juliette Fritsch

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections

   The Crisis of Cultural Authority

   By Tiffany Jenkins

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique...

   Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge