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  • The Museum’s Borders

    On the Challenge of Knowing and Remembering Well

    by Simon Knell ...
    The Museum’s Borders demonstrates that museum practices are deeply entangled in border making, patrol, mitigation and erasure, and that the border lens offers a new tool for deconstructing and reconfiguring such practices.Arguing that the museum is a critical institution for the operation of knowledge-based democracies, Knell investigates how they have been used by scientists, art historians and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • National Galleries

    by Simon Knell ...
    Are national galleries different from other kinds of art gallery or museum?What value is there for the nation in a collection of international masterpieces?How are national galleries involved in the construction national art?National Galleries is the first book to undertake a panoramic view of a type of national institution – which are sometimes called national museums of fine art – that is now ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Museum

    Shaping Museums for the Global Now

    Edited by Simon Knell ...
    The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • National Museums

    New Studies from Around the World

    Edited by Simon Knell, Peter Aronsson, Arne Amundsen ...
    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 used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Care of Collections

    Edited by Simon Knell ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Confronting contemporary issues in museum practice, this collection provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care.Contributors cover a wide range of issues including:conservation practicethe monitoring and control of lightrelative humidity and atmospheric pollutionpacking, handling and transportation of collectionsstorage and access to collectionsbiological infestationdisaster ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Museums in the Material World

    Edited by Simon Knell ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section introductions.The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Museum Revolutions

    How museums change and are changed

    Edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Sheila Watson, Simon Knell ...
    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, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Museum

    Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    by Danny Danziger ...
    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

    $5.99 USD

  • Making Museums Matter

    by Stephen Weil ...
    In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts, a detailed consideration of how the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Engaging Museum

    Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

    by Graham Black ...
    Series 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 front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards.This holistic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Museums and Education

    Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

    by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill ...
    Series 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 purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance.The need to theorise learning and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD