Museum Studies
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Doing Museology Differently
Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Museums and the Paradox of Change
3rd Edition
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
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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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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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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
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National Museums
New Studies from Around the World
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
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Museum Revolutions
How museums change and are changed
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
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Civilizing the Museum
The Collected Writings of 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
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The Engaging Museum
Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement
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
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Heritage, Museums and Galleries
An Introductory Reader
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
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The Birth of the Museum
History, Theory, Politics
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