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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Museum Basics

   2nd Edition

   By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Fully updated and extended to examine the many changes that have occurred in the last decade, this second edition of world-renowned text Museum Basics provides a basic guide to all aspects of museum work and staff experience from museum organization, through collections management and...

   Published March 2nd 2006 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. Hands-On Exhibitions

   Managing Interactive Museums and Science Centres

   By Tim Caulton

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   The development of interactive displays has transformed the traditional museum world in the last decade. Visitors are no longer satisfied by simply gazing at worthy displays in glass cases - they expect to have hands-on experience of the objects and be actively involved with the exhibits, learning...

   Published February 11th 1998 by Routledge
10. The Politics of Display

    Museums, Science, Culture

    Edited by Sharon Macdonald

    Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

    The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and...

    Published December 24th 1997 by Routledge