Museum Studies Books

New and Published Books

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. Cultural Property Security

   Protecting Museums, Historic Sites, Archives, and Libraries

   By Daniel J. Benny

   The protection and security of cultural properties is of primary concern to the thousands of federal, state, county, city, and private institutions entrusted with housing and displaying our national heritage and history of our society. Cultural property security is of global importance as well,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by CRC Press
3. 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
4. Conservation of Cultural Heritage

   Key Principles and Approaches

   By Hanna M. Szczepanowska

   Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities with museum collections and artifacts. It also assists current professionals in understanding the complex decision-making processes that face...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
5. Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

   Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Post Critical Museology

   Theory and Practice in the Art Museum

   By Andrew Dewdney, David Dibosa, Victoria Walsh

   Post-Critical Museology considers what the role of the public and the experience of audiences means to the everyday work of the art museum. It does this from the perspectives of the art museum itself as well as from the visitors it seeks. Through the analysis of material gathered from a major...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. New Directions in Museum Ethics

   Edited by Janet C. Marstine, Alexander Bauer, Chelsea Haines

   This book considers key ethical questions in museum policy and practice, particularly those related to issues of collection and display. What does a collection signify in the twenty-first century museum? How does an engagement with immateriality challenge museums’ concept of ownership, and how does...

   Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. The Constructed Past

   Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public

   Edited by Philippe Planel, Peter G. Stone

   Series: One World Archaeology

   The Constructed Past presents group of powerful images of the past, termed in the book construction sites. At these sites, full scale, three-dimensional images of the past have been created for a variety of reasons including archaeological experimentation, tourism and education. Using various case...

   Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Managing Archaeology

    Edited by John Carman, Malcolm Cooper, Anthony Firth, David Wheatley

    Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge