On these pages you will find information on the Routledge list which covers Museum Studies, Heritage Studies, Material Culture Studies, and Conservation.
There is also information on books for students, series, and the latest news and events.
Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers,…
Hardback – 2014-12-04
Routledge
The museum has become a vital strategic space for negotiating ownership of and access to knowledges produced in local settings. Museum as Process presents community-engaged "culture work" of a group of scholars whose collaborative projects consider the social spaces between the museum and community…
Paperback – 2014-08-25
Routledge
Museum Meanings
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…
Paperback – 2012-08-29
Routledge
The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum…
Paperback – 2012-04-22
Routledge
Museum Meanings
Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has therefore been produced…
Paperback – 2012-04-10
Routledge
Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
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…
Paperback – 2012-02-27
Routledge
Museum Meanings
Museums and the Politics of Urban Development is a comparative international analysis of the role of museums in prestige cultural precincts. Over the last 10-15 years there has been a significant investment in prestigious urban developments which encompass multiple cultural and leisure facilities.…
Paperback – 2015-05-31
Routledge
Hardback – 2015-04-30
Routledge
Routledge Companions
Climate change is a critical issue for heritage studies. Sites, objects and ways of life all are coming under threat, requiring alternative management, or requiring specific climate change adaptation. Heritage is key to interpreting the societal significance of climate change; notions (and images)…
Paperback – 2015-04-26
Routledge
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
AAM-Recommended Books on Museums' Social Value
To help museum professionals think about this year’s annual meeting theme, the AAM recommended 5 Routledge books as resources on the social value of museums. We invite you to explore the titles here.
Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius, editors of National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010: Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change, explore the role of museums in research, education and the on-going nation making processes of Europe.
Ken Taylor, co-editor of Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions, discusses the interdependence between people, their social structures and ecosystems, and landscape conservation.
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