Museums & museology books

Proceedings of the IIC Nordic Group conference 'Planning to move? Processes and consequences for collections, objects and society' held in October 2012.

Discusses the technology and processes in digital preservation of cultural heritage. This title covers topics in five major areas: Digitization of cultural heritage; Digital management in the cultural heritage preservation;...

Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the...

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...

Museums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space.

What are the basic principles that underly museum work? What ideas can apply to ill-equipped and under-staffed museums everywhere? This guide provides answers to such questions, as well as details of museum organization from...

Celebrating nine decades of wisdom and wonder at the McCord Museum

This is a book about the learning potential of objects - whether they're rare artefacts in museum collections, or found objects discovered at a local car boot sale. This book grows from the simple fact that learning by engaging...

In recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. Could it be that the encyclopedic museum has outlived its usefulness? In this book, the...

Focuses on heritage from below in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. This title discusses the contemporary manifestations and the...