Museum & Heritage Studies

Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius

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 – 2014-12-05
Routledge

Edited by Raymond Silverman

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 – 2014-08-26
Routledge
Museum Meanings

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…

Paperback – 2012-08-30
Routledge

Edited by Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

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 – 2012-04-23
Routledge
Museum Meanings

By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine

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 – 2012-04-11
Routledge
Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale

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 – 2012-02-28
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Museum Meanings

By David S. Mitchell

The peak of architectural ironwork in the 19th Century saw the spread of ornate decorative ironwork across the world. In recent years there has been a significant increase in conservation and restoration projects aiming to protect the artistry of traditional ironwork for future generations.…

Hardback – 2016-09-27
Routledge

Edited by Bas Verschuuren, Naoya Furuta

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia. This book provides a new perspective on the topic of sacred natural sites and cultural heritage by linking…

Paperback – 2016-08-11
Routledge

Edited by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change. Museums work through exhibitions, events,…

Paperback – 2016-08-11
Routledge
Routledge Environmental Humanities