Museum Studies

Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Co...

Reducere. This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological a...

Reducere. Museums serve to help us understand the past and navigate our future--as individuals, as societies, and as a global community. A careful and accura...

Reducere. "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum wi...

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

Reducere. Long regarded as one the leading texts in museology, Introduction to Museum Work in now thoroughly revised and updated. While citing recent changes...

Reducere. Author Myra Kahn Adams' popular, ongoing, weekly Sunday Bible study on Townhall.com has been compiled into a book as requested by Townhall readers....

Reducere. Nancy Turner describes more than 150 plants traditionally harvested and eaten by First Peoples east of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia and ...

DescriptionWondering what a museum director actually does? About to start your first director's job? Looking for guidance in starting up a museum o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina SimonVisitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, librar...

Reducere. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.-A....

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museum...

Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-...

Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals o...

* Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. * Includes original essays by noted artists, curators,...

Winner of the 2018 Ontario Museum Association Award of Excellence Creating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us abou...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina SimonPreface by: Jon MosconeWhat do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in com...

Reassembling the Collection presents innovative approaches to the study of historical and contemporary engagements between museums and the various ...

Between the countless works of art in the world and numerous laws on their care, the task of deciphering correct procedure can seem daunting. In Ar...

Sharon Turner (1768-1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic l...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Days before his thirty-third birthday, Jacob Paul, an ordinary New Yorker, learns that his life is the dream of a man bein...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a fount of major collections of art from some of the most renowned painters and sculptors of the ...

Reducere. In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolin...

Reducere. "Incredible amount of detail about all those kickers from the past, including an appendix with comprehensive model-year information."--WoodenBoat "...

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its cre...

Reducere. Dr. Jurgen Matthaus, nascut in 1959, este director al Departamentului de cercetare de la Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocau...

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor t...

In a series of richly detailed studies from Britain, Australia and North America, Bennett investigates how 19th and 20th century museums, fairs and...

Reducere. Teacher resource book for Ohio and Indiana Native American history lessons. Over 250 pages of activities, worksheets, projects, puzzles, and readin...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of the chaos and pain of Charlottesville, museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders must move quickly to face t...

Fostering Empathy through Museums features fifteen case studies with clear take-away ideas, and lessons learned by vividly illustrating a spectrum ...

Scholars from diverse disciplines tackle the many questions posed by the work and life of abstraction pioneer Hilma af KlintIn this thorough critic...

Reducere. Because of his recourse to language, photography and systems of information, On Kawara is often described as a key figure in the history of Concept...

Description Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History join forces in a thrilling new picture book about the discovery of the Titanosaur...

Reducere. Taxidermy is everywhere these days--from hip restaurants to posh clothing stores. Yet few realize that behind these "stuffed" animals is a world of...

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as we...

Reducere. Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indi...

DescriptionIn 1910 and 1914, a two-volume study of New York's native birds was issued as part of the State Museum's annual report. A vast catalog o...

Reducere. PROSEIn 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented t...

Reducere. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet Willia...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

DescriptionThe UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and na...

DescriptionExhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best...

Reducere. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the ma...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the c...

Reducere. ``Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the Lake Superior...

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

DescriptionTart, richly flavoured damsons have been growing in England since the island's earliest recorded history. Whether wild and foraged, or c...

Reducere. Children and parents will love learning their very first ideas about North Carolina in My N.C. from A-Z. This colorful, sturdy board book celebrate...

Reducere. "Two Leggings . . . was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologi...

Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski, a strong and stubborn Polish orphan, leaves Chicago on an orphan train, expecting to be adopted and turned...

A general introduction to the art and architecture of Greece, the Cycladic islands and Crete, from c.3300 - 1000 BC. The authors have been highly s...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Emma CoffieldIllustration(s): 18 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 23...

Reducere. The majesty of Earth's most magnificent features was the domain of Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). In paintings of natural wonders throughout the galaxy...

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

Where did the mummy come from? What happened to the person that became the mummy? Find out all this and more High-interest topics, real stories, en...

Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influen...

Reducere. Since the 1990s, Thomas Struth has been one of the best-known and internationally successful photographers of the German art scene. Struth studied ...

DescriptionLGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear reg...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Reducere. A handsome presentation of Scottish artist Sarah Graham's up-close drawings of insects and plantsIn her majestic drawings, London-based artist Sara...

Reducere. Should Christians even bother with the modern wing at the art museum? After all, modern art and artists are often caricatured as rabidly opposed to...

Reducere. First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 is a foundational work in the f...

This collection of 36 monographs serves as a well-rounded introduction to the Law of Thelema. ?Lapis Philosophorum? redefines the magical philosoph...

Description Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History join forces in a thrilling new picture book about the discovery of the Titanosaur...

Following the publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., Michael Holmes, a leading expert on these texts...

Reducere. From planetary movements and the exploration of our solar system to black holes and dark matter, this comprehensive reference simplifies all aspect...

Reducere. DescriptionCo-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that a...