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1. Managing Quality Cultural Tourism

   By Priscilla Boniface

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Managing Quality Cultural Tourism is an authoritative look at how to manage cultural tourist sites to best meet the needs of the visitors, the presenters and the site itself. As cultural tourism increases the management of heritage sites becomes more complex. Priscilla Boniface addresses these...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Handbook for Museums

   By David Dean, Gary Edson

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Handbook for Museums is the definitive guide of need-to-know information essential for working in the museum world. Presenting a field-tested guide to best practice, the Handbook is formed around a commitment to professionalism in museum practice. The sections provide information on...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Architecture in Conservation

   Managing Development at Historic Sites

   By James Strike

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   One of the problems faced by heritage organizations and museums is adapting old buildings to their needs or building new ones to fit in with historic sites. How exactly do you create a visitor's centre at Stonehenge? The real difficulty lies where the budget is minimal, and the potential damage to...

   Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Museum Basics

   3rd Edition

   By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has therefore been produced...

   Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Museum Volunteers

   Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers

   By Sinclair Goodlad, Stephanie McIvor

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism.This book:* reviews research on the changing priorities of museums*...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Museums and Their Visitors

   By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Environmental Management

   Guidelines for Museums and Galleries

   By May Cassar

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   The key to the survival of museum collections is a stable indoor environment and vital to this is a well-maintained building with effective environmental services. Environmental Management sets out clearly the theory and practice of achieving an appropriate museum environment for both collections...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Towards the Museum of the Future

   New European Perspectives

   Edited by Roger Miles, Lauro Zavala

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. The Engaging Museum

   Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

   By Graham Black

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to...

   Published May 25th 2005 by Routledge
10. Making Representations

    Museums in the Post-Colonial Era

    By Moira G. Simpson

    Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

    Responses to controversial exhibitions in recent years have demonstrated the dissatisfaction felt by many indigenous peoples and ethnic groups at the ways in which the western museum traditionally represented their cultures and excluded them from the process of interpretation and display. Native...

    Published June 13th 2001 by Routledge