Museum and Heritage Studies

The Dignity of Heritage

By Michael Rowlands, Beverly Butler

The Dignity of Heritage makes a radical break with routinised accounts and definitions of cultural heritage and with the existing or ‘established’ canon of cultural heritage texts. Jacques Derrida’s rallying call to ‘restore heritage to dignity’ is taken as an alternative guiding metaphor by which...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Displaced Things

By Sandra H. Dudley

Displaced Things explores the movements of material things from one setting to another. Its analysis examines how the qualities of objects, and the meanings and values with which they are attributed, change as they are repeatedly re-contextualised. The volume argues that our understanding of the...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

Museums and Social Activism

Engaged Protest

By Kylie Message

Series: Museum Meanings

Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Conservation of 20th Century Furniture

By Jake Kaner, Clive Edwards

Series: Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology

Conservation of 20th Century Furniture provides a comprehensive coverage of materials and techniques that are encountered in twentieth century furniture, through both a contextual point of view and through a range of practice perspectives. After putting both the design and manufacture, and the...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Museum Architecture

A New Biography

By Suzanne MacLeod

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

Museums and the Paradox of Change

3rd Edition

By Robert R. Janes

Museums throughout the world are under increasing pressure in the wake of the 2008/2009 economic recession and the many pressing social and environmental issues that are assuming priority. The major focus of concern in the global museum community is the sustainability of museums in light of these...

To Be Published April 25th 2013 by Routledge

Memorylands

Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

By Sharon Macdonald

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...

Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge

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

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

Conservation of Easel Paintings

Edited by Joyce Hill Stoner, Rebecca Rushfield

Series: Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology

Conservation of Easel Paintings is the first comprehensive text on the history, philosophy, and methods of treatment of easel paintings that combines both theory with practice. With contributions from an international group of experts and interviews with important artists, this volume provides an...

Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge

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

Heritage

Critical Approaches

By Rodney Harrison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Heritage of War

Edited by Martin Gegner, Bart Ziino

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

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