How to Think About Museums: A Guide with Exercises is a lively introduction to the key issues in the contemporary multid......more

Over the past few years an increasing number of museums have experimented with social media to demonstrate that they are......more

Medieval manuscript historian and author of the widely acclaimed Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts discovers the most......more

The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the ’Manchester Mummy’. In 1835, the Manches......more

The first comprehensive study of Cassatt’s life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework. This b......more

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National......more

How activities in and around government-run care facilities can help former residents heal after their closure. Into the......more

In recent years, not only ethnographic collections, but also the European canon of art history have come under siege. Th......more

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What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in ......more

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stor......more

Library Lives: a constellation of books and objects from the Rylands plots the lifelong love affair between one particul......more

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S......more

Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S......more

What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and ......more

New poems from 100 of the world’s brightest contemporary poets, all about a common subject: the Louvre--exploring the ma......more

In July 1980 London’s National Gallery paid a record sum for a canvas that purported to be Peter Paul Rubens’s Samson an......more

In 1925, Pius XI staged the Vatican Missionary Exposition in Rome’s Vatican City. Offering a narrative of the Catholic C......more

Envisioning new ways to imagine the future through activist approaches to archivism Traditional archivism runs the risk ......more

Twenty renowned international curators write about the exhibition that transformed their ideas about curating. Across th......more

Celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges On an afternoo......more

This book tells the story of the unifying of two major institutions during a turning point in American public art educat......more

The fate of heritage in war has attracted considerable attention in recent years, due in no small part to ISIS’s campaig......more

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thoug......more

The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevat......more

Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility st......more

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Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact inst......more

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The essential reference for anyone engaged in the material study of cast bronze sculpture. Since the fourth millennium B......more

’Wicked Problems’ are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not i......more

This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making, and the extent to which artist autonomy and authe......more

In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that ......more

Financial Management in Museums considers sustainable and innovative solutions to current museum financial challenges by......more

Financial Management in Museums considers sustainable and innovative solutions to current museum financial challenges by......more

This big format Sketchbook was designed for artists and creatives to use everywhere they go! This version with on-trend ......more

In Biennial Boom, Paloma Checa-Gismero traces an archeology of contemporary art biennials to uncover the processes that ......more

Taps into the zeitgeist of exploring the imperial legacies and confronting the historic racism of museums.Museums around......more

This is the first step-by-step guide to the design, implementation, and maintenance of heritage inventories and surveys.......more

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) ......more

China’s Heritage through History employs a longue durée approach to examine China’s heritage through history. From Imper......more

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China’s Heritage through History employs a longue durée approach to examine China’s heritage through history. From Imper......more

Featuring 55 gorgeous full-color images of diverse Smithsonian objects, this wire-bound, weekly calendar is like visitin......more

Put the past behind you with a whole year full of famous derrières in art! From the lusciously rendered bottoms of Renai......more

The Western Museum is an ideological, political, and economic disunity battleground. Calls for its decolonization have w......more

In many contemporary societies we encounter iconoclasm breaking out with renewed violence. Iconoclastic actions against ......more

A thorough investigation into the shadowy inner workings of privately funded contemporary art museums Compiled by Larry’......more

Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century addresses the largely under-exa......more

In Italy, art historians can study wall-paintings, tombs, and stained-glass windows in the early churches for which they......more

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Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation o......more

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How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary manne......more

The history of American ceramics is far better documented than that of other crafts, yet many untold stories remain. Une......more

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A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Str......more

This volume is the first book to bring together ground-breaking research on the role of European famines in the 19th and......more

This volume is the first book to bring together ground-breaking research on the role of European famines in the 19th and......more

Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum t......more

Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum t......more

A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Str......more

This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts. Between ......more

International Perspectives on Museum Management is the first volume of the ICOM Museum Practice series. eExploresing con......more

International Perspectives on Museum Management is the first volume of the ICOM Museum Practice series. eExploresing con......more

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Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and ......more

Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons for c......more

Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatr......more

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor r......more

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditi......more

Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse the rela......more

Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with t......more

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate ......more