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  • Elements of Archaeological Conservation

    by J.M. Cronyn ...
    Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this is the only comprehensive book on the subject at an introductory level.Perfect as a practical reference book for professional and students who work with excavated materials, and as an introduction for those training as archaeological conservators. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Conservation Concerns

    A Guide for Collectors and Curators

    by Konstanze Bachmann ...
    Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Birth of the Museum

    History, Theory, Politics

    by Tony Bennett ...
    Series 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 that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • 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 and, ultimately, to repair the world. In this groundbreaking book, Silverman forges a framework of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice

    Decolonizing Engagement

    by Bryony Onciul ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum community engagement and the process of self-representation, specifically how the First Nations Elders of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum

    Exchanging Views of Empire

    by Kathleen Davidson ...
    Series series Science and the Arts since 1750
    The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. This book addresses the complex relationship ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Museums, Health and Well-Being

    by Helen Chatterjee, Guy Noble ...
    The role of museums in enhancing well-being and improving health through social intervention is one of the foremost topics of importance in the museums sector today. With an aging population and emerging policies on the social responsibilities of museums, the sector is facing an unprecedented challenge in how to develop services to meet the needs of its communities in a more holistic and inclusive ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Towards the Museum of the Future

    New European Perspectives

    Edited by Roger Miles, Lauro Zavala ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of different museum audiences, and discusses the museum as communicator and educator in the context of current ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference

    by Richard Sandell ...
    How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference?In recent decades there has been growing international interest amongst practitioners, academics and policy makers in the role that museums might play in confronting prejudice and promoting human rights and cross-cultural understanding. Museums in many parts of the world are increasingly concerned to construct ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Museum in Transition

    A Philosophical Perspective

    by Hilde S. Hein ...
    During the past thirty years, museums of all kinds have tried to become more responsive to the interests of a diverse public. With exhibitions becoming people-centered, idea-oriented, and contextualized, the boundaries between museums and the “real” world are eroding. Setting the transition from object-centered to story-centered exhibitions in a philosophical framework, Hilde S. Hein contends that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

    Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

    by Chip Colwell ...
    A leading anthropologist "explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work" ( Publishers Weekly).Who own the objects that connect us to history? And who has the right to decide, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? As senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Museums and Communities

    The Politics of Public Culture

    Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, Steven Levine ...
    Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD