Museum and Heritage Studies

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

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

The Social Work of Museums

By Lois H. Silverman

Museums may not seem at first glance to be engaged in social work. Yet, Lois H. Silverman brings together here relevant visitor studies, trends in international practice, and compelling examples that demonstrate how museums everywhere are using their unique resources to benefit human relationships...

Published November 24th 2009 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

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

Education and the Historic Environment

Edited by Mike Corbishley, Don Henson, Peter Stone

Series: Issues in Heritage Management

Practical, inspiring and instructive, Education and the Historic Environment emphasizes the contribution to both education and heritage that results from a positive relationship between the two disciplines. Education and the Historic Environment examines evidence, case studies and chapters from a...

Published January 14th 2004 by Routledge

Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Series: Museum Meanings

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture.This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select and arrange...

Published September 27th 2000 by Routledge

The Educational Role of the Museum

2nd Edition

Edited by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Grounded in the solid strengths of its first edition, this updated and revised second edition, collates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The Educational Role of the Museum has been entirely restructured and new papers have...

Published January 20th 1999 by Routledge

Learning in the Museum

By George E. Hein

Series: Museum Meanings

Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums. Hein combines a brief history of education in public museums, with a rigorous examination of how the...

Published March 11th 1998 by Routledge