Museum and Heritage Studies Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. 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
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. 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
4. Teaching History with Museums

   Strategies for K-12 Social Studies

   By Alan Marcus, Jeremy Stoddard, Walter W. Woodward

   Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. 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
6. The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

   Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

   Edited by Janet C. Marstine

   Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Cross-Cultural Issues in Art

   Frames for Understanding

   By Steven Leuthold

   Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
8. Gender, Sexuality and Museums

   A Routledge Reader

   Edited by Amy K. Levin

   Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Making of the American Landscape

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Michael P. Conzen

   The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s...

   Published January 20th 2010 by Routledge
10. Museums in a Digital Age

    Edited by Ross Parry

    Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

    The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online...

    Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge