Museum and Heritage Studies

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

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 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

National Museums

New Studies from Around the World

Edited by Simon Knell, Peter Aronsson, Arne Amundsen

National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been...

Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge

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

Museums in a Troubled World

Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

By Robert R. Janes

Series: Museum Meanings

Are Museums Irrelevant? Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities – suggesting the irrelevance of museums as...

Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge

Heritage and Identity

Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World

Edited by Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta

Series: Museum Meanings

Heritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures....

Published November 25th 2008 by Routledge

Museums and Community

Ideas, Issues and Challenges

By Elizabeth Crooke

Series: Museum Meanings

Combining research that stretches across all of the social sciences and international case studies, Elizabeth Crooke here explores the dynamics of the relationship between the community and the museum. Focusing strongly on areas such as Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia and North...

Published February 4th 2008 by Routledge

Recoding the Museum

Digital Heritage and the Technologies of Change

By Ross Parry

Series: Museum Meanings

Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector? And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s? Does there continue to be a basic ‘incompatibility’ between the practice of the museum and the...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge

Rethinking Evolution in the Museum

Envisioning African Origins

By Monique Scott

Series: Museum Meanings

Rethinking Evolution in the Museum explores the ways diverse natural history museum audiences imagine their evolutionary heritage. In particular, the book considers how the meanings constructed by audiences of museum exhibitions are a product of dynamic interplay between museum iconography and...

Published November 14th 2007 by Routledge

Museums and Education

Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Series: Museum Meanings

At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge

Museum Revolutions

How museums change and are changed

Edited by Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod, Sheila Watson

This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them. Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research...

Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge

Museums and their Communities

Edited by Sheila Watson

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Using case studies drawn from all areas of museum studies, Museums and their Communities explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. Focusing on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, Sheila...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge

Museums in the Material World

Edited by Simon Knell

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge

Museum Management and Marketing

Edited by Richard Sandell, Robert R. Janes

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Drawing together a selection of high quality, intellectually robust and stimulating articles on both theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this Reader investigates the closely linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles, from established and...

Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge

Civilizing the Museum

The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

By Elaine Heumann Gurian

Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all. Drawing on her experience working in and with...

Published December 18th 2005 by Routledge

The Engaging Museum

Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

By Graham Black

Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to...

Published May 25th 2005 by Routledge

Heritage, Museums and Galleries

An Introductory Reader

Edited by Gerard Corsane

Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past couple of decades. The volume...

Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge

The Birth of the Museum

History, Theory, Politics

By Tony Bennett

Series: Culture: Policy and Politics

In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside...

Published May 3rd 1995 by Routledge