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  • Interpreting Historic House Museums

    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While ... Read more

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    Series series Footprint Focus
    Footprintfocus Santander and Picos de Europa is the only dedicated guide available covering this popular Spanish region. Features an Essentials section with practical tips to help plan a trip, detailed information on attractions and comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep and have fun.• Essentials section with tips on getting there and around• Up-to-date recommendations of great places to ... Read more

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  • 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 societal developments that we are all a part of, and applies not just to museums but to all arts bodies ... Read more

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  • The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

    by Adrian George ...
    A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of influential curators.The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.An introduction explores curatorial work from its ... Read more

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    by Sam Miller ...
    Series series from Blue Guide India
    The independent traveller’s guide to Uttar Pradesh: including Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi (Benares) and Mathura, birthplace of Krishna. With practical information plus eating and accommodation tips.This is a chapter from Blue Guide India: the best English-language guide to India's art, architecture and history. Superb maps, detailed sections on religions and culture. Written by the BBC's Sam Miller ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Old Tokyo

    Walks in the City of the Shogun

    This Tokyo guidebook provides an intimate and detailed look at Japan's dynamic capital.Walking is the best way to get to know any city and here is a walker's guide to Tokyo—one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Author and Tokyo native Sumiko Enbutso leads readers through Tokyo's old downtown. Sensitive to the character of each varied neighborhood, she brings a sharp eye to its half ... Read more

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  • Museum

    Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    An ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Entertainment Weekly)Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York?s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic, acerbic director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello, to the curators who have a deep knowledge and ... Read more

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  • The Champagne Region of France (including Reims & Epernay) Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)

    by Jason Russell ...
    Tantalizing vineyards stretching over 34,000 hectares make for a strong first impression when visiting La Champagne. This is just the start of a bubbly love affair. Champagne – a historic French province of great natural beauty, 160 kilometers east of Paris – has a long-standing tradition in viticulture dating from the first century. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction to the Champagne Region ... Read more

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    Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical survey of major changes in current assumptions about the nature of museums ... Read more

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  • A Year In TUSCANY

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    $9.80 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Tours!

    Thematic Tours and Guide Training for Historic Sites

    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps you focus clearly on the material culture and significance of your site and then shows you how to use that focus to train and energize your guides. You will be able to move your tours to a fresh new level that is engaging and educational for visitors of all ... Read more

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