Museums

A look at the past, present and future of science museums.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Samuel J.M.M. AlbertiIllustration(s): 99 illustration...

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Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldIllustration(s): Text Boxes; Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & Wh...

Reducere. Unknown Museums of Upstate New York is an informative and entertaining guide to the rich resources available at fifty small, often overlooked, regi...

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is home to both time and space: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Prime Meridian. But have you ever stopped to a...

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompan...

This book argues for the need to integrate museum-based experiential qualities into discussion of Byzantine art in order to reach fuller, deeper, m...

Takes the reader on a journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' this title explores the agen...

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a "museum object" in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, th...

An account of the changing attitudes to the way art is presented in the modern museum of art. It examines the relationship between the artist, the ...

Reducere. The Black Hawk War was the final conflict east of the Mississippi River between American Indian communities and the United States regular troops an...

Museums, Collections, and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections, and social repair in contemporary Vietna...

Evaluating Early Learning in Museums presents developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant practices for engaging early learners and their f...

This new edition of Digital Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is the most current, complete guide to digital preservation available ...

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums.

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

One of the best kept secrets about Egyptian art is the National Museums of Scotland world-class collection. This is the first book devoted these ar...

- The only book available sampling the finest selection of Jun wares from renowned collections and museums around the world - Highly educational ar...

Explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to crea...

The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based o...

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museu...

aeo This book is a classic work in the sociology of culture, by a world leader in the field. aeo The book is one of the first systematic, comparati...

Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Second Edition is a much-needed guide to marketing for libraries, archive...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 248Collection: MuseumPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 223 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackE...

Publisher: Sandstein Kommunikation GmbHIllustration(s): 175 col & b/w illsNumber of pages: 180Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 216 x 272 x 17Cover...

Alexander Dorner's radical ideas about the purpose of museums and art, examined through his tenure as Director of the RISD Museum.Alexander Dorner ...

Film Curatorship is an experiment: a collective text, a montage of dialogues, conversations, and exchanges among four professionals representing th...

The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museumPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Dan HicksIllustration(s): 4 Tables, black and whi...

Reducere. During the global Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, many called upon the United States to finally face its painful past. Tim Gruenewald's new bo...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul Den ArendThis book will help you if you plan on visiting the Vatican or want to know more about it. The Vatican is an ...

A groundbreaking book recounting the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from 1900 to the present.

Takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Ana Maria (University of Toronto, Canada) Navas IanniniIllustration(s): 5 Line drawings, black and white;...

Reducere. With its stylish design, zingy illustrations and handy size to pop in a bag, Take Me To Museums is a must-have accompaniment to every museum or gal...

A series of guided journals for young people encouraging them to make the most of travel experiences. Packed with facts, and emphasising a sense of...

The international controversy over who owns antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are ...

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

A complete catalogue of Glasgow Museums' remarkable Ship Model collection with more than 700 stunning photographs both of complete models, and clos...

Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public hi...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book offers insights into changes brought about by the enormous growth of the internet. There are new ways to share cultural herita...

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arbor...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Museums--along with books, newspapers, and Wild West shows in the 19th century, movies and television in the 20th--have shaped our perceptions of A...

Reducere. A complete guide to interpreting women's history. Women's history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in hom...

Reducere. Take an exclusive backstage tour of the world's most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures. This behind-the-scenes guide showcases a...

Self-determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation and cross-cultural c...

Reducere. A visual guide to approximately 20 Florida art colonies and districts. The book will discusses in detail a variety of towns in Florida renowned as ...

Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by Pedro Lorente in this...

Reducere. In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the s...

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

Reducere. DescriptionWhether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the ...

Beautifully illustrated and packed with case studies and detailed project examples, Clay in Common is a hands-on project guide explaining how to se...

Museums are increasingly seen as the place where scientific research and heritage education meet; 8 papers here consider the mediation of language ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Kathryn K. MatthewIllustration(s): 26 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 27 Il...

DescriptionThough World War II took place after the development of color photography, nearly all of the familiar images of it are in black and whit...

Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - this is a fascinating and moving family story.

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...

This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum institutions. The author p...

Publisher: Glasgow Museums PublishingAuthor(s): Geraldine ShenkinIllustration(s): 1 Maps; 30 Illustrations, black and white; 80 Illustrations, colo...

Reducere. Go on... be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you en...

Contributor(s): Editor: Kristine KhouriEditor: Rasha SaltiThe International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized...

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Scientific concepts are basic to the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no scientific training. These in...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Erich Hatala (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Frost Center for the E...

Scientific concepts are basic to the conservation or artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no scientific training. These in...

A guide to the weirdest and most wonderful museums in the world, from the Currywurst Museum of Berlin to the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum

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