Museum and Heritage Studies

Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience

By Tiina Roppola

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure...

Published December 18th 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

Festival Architecture

Edited by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy

Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from...

Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge

Museum Texts

Comunication Frameworks

By Louise Ravelli

Series: Museum Meanings

Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums: * What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?* Why do some choice in language make a more direct relation to...

Published December 18th 2005 by Routledge

Reshaping Museum Space

Edited by Suzanne Macleod

Series: Museum Meanings

Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space, and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and...

Published May 30th 2005 by Routledge

Liberating Culture

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation

By Christina Kreps

Series: Museum Meanings

Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation is transforming conventional museum practice. Liberating Culture ...

Published January 22nd 2003 by Routledge