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History at War: The Campaigns of an Historian

by Noble Frankland

History at War is a unique book. It throws light on important unexplored aspects of the pursuit of historical truth. It tells how, alone among historians, Noble Frankland fought in the bomber offensive during...


Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience

by Tiina Roppola

Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-,...


The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan

by Morishita

The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national...


Using Museums as an Educational Resource: An Introductory Handbook for Students and Teachers

by Graeme K. Talboys

Visits to museums have long been recognised as an important aspect of the education of young people. Graeme K. Talboys offers a comprehensive introduction for students, practising teachers and other educators...


Art Practice in a Digital Culture

by Hazel Gardiner & Charlie Gere

In this unique book artists, art historians, art theorists and curators of new media reflect on the idea of art as research and how it has changed practice. Intrinsic to the volume is an investigation of the...


Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See

by Beth Cook & Rebecca Reynolds

This book looks at the interaction between Design students and museums, and explores issues, projects and emerging ideas about how museums can better support HE students. It illustrates the general lessons that...


The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century

by Caroline Lang & John Reeve

The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's...


Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook to Corporate Buying

by Charlotte Appleyard & James Salzmann

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to corporate collecting, examining the history, nature...


A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition

by Marie C. Malaro & Ildiko Deangelis

Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by...


Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame

by Murray G. Phillips

We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum...


Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism

by Hong Kal

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment...


Exhibiting Madness in Museums

by Catharine Coleborne & Dolly MacKinnon

While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent...


Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

by Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt & Kalliopi Fouseki

The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic...


Intangible Natural Heritage

by Eric Dorfman

The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help...


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...


Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

by Ivan Karp

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and...


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...