Museum Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

   Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Museum Objects

   Experiencing the Properties of Things

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley

   Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

   Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Museums, Equality and Social Justice

   Edited by Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

   Series: Museum Meanings

   The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Politics of Memory

   Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

   Edited by Ana Lucia Araujo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent,...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Museum Making

   Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

   Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale

   Series: Museum Meanings

   Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Scholars, Travellers and Trade

   The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840

   By R. B. Halbertsma

   Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about?Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Transforming Museums in the Twenty-first Century

   By Graham Black

   In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences – and this root and branch change would be necessary whether or not museums faced a funding crisis. It is the result of the impact of new technologies and the rapid...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
9. Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries

   By Christopher Whitehead

   In this pioneering book, Christopher Whitehead provides an overview and critique of art interpretation practices in museums and galleries. Covering the philosophy and sociology of art, traditions in art history and art display, the psychology of the aesthetic experience and ideas about learning and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
10. Preventive Conservation in Museums

    Edited by Chris Caple

    Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

    Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession. It bridges the gap between the basic...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge