Welcome to the Museum and Heritage Studies catalogue for 2012. We've arranged our new titles and key backlist into themed sections, accessible via the links on the left of this page.
2012 sees the publication of some fantastic new textbooks and research works – why not take a look? We hope that you find this new format e-catalogue easy to use. If you have any feedback or questions, would like a paper version, or want suggestions for course reading or textbooks, please don’t hesitate to email - contact details can be found in the left hand pane.
This catalogue represents just a small selection of our list and to see the full range just log on to www.routledge.com/archaeology.
Some highlights from this year are featured below – click on the contents links to the left to access the full catalogue.
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Post Critical Museology
Theory and Practice in the Art Museum
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
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Heritage
Critical Approaches
Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of...
Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Museum Objects
Experiencing the Properties of Things
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
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Museums, Equality and Social Justice
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
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Museum Basics
3rd Edition
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
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Museum Making
Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions
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
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Transforming Museums in the Twenty-first Century
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
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Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries
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
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Preventive Conservation in Museums
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
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The Heritage of War
Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts,...
Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
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The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics
Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum
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