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
An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, London The N......more
A best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London)......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
A subjective, candid, multi-vocal story about the creation of the building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. A Form......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
...more
...more
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
The rich history of a centuries-old document security technology--folding and securing a letter into its own envelope fo......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
This debut book by the popular collaborative team--heralded as one of the first truly new critical voices of the 21st ce......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
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
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find......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
...more
Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact inst......more
Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact inst......more
The essential reference for anyone engaged in the material study of cast bronze sculpture. Since the fourth millennium B......more
Debates around restitution and decolonizing museums continue to rage across the world. Artifacts, effigies, and ancestra......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
The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland......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
We came out with our big format Sketchbooks last year and they are such a pleasure to use! We designed every detail, nic......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
Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care provides a comprehensive and inclusive overview of theory, resea......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
China’s Heritage through History employs a longue durée approach to examine China’s heritage through history. From Imper......more
Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century addresses the largely under-exa......more
Featuring 55 gorgeous full-color images of diverse Smithsonian objects, this wire-bound, weekly calendar is like visitin......more
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance ......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
Peter Sloterdik sees our digitalized world in a "growing spatial crisis", accompanied by the danger of a "general virtua......more
A thorough investigation into the shadowy inner workings of privately funded contemporary art museums Compiled by Larry’......more
In Italy, art historians can study wall-paintings, tombs, and stained-glass windows in the early churches for which they......more
As the master narratives of the so-called Museum Age decline and the new museology grows old, museums appear to be retur......more
Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation o......more
How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary manne......more
How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape? Can you re-create a historic profile from a contemporary manne......more
...more
The history of American ceramics is far better documented than that of other crafts, yet many untold stories remain. Une......more
...more
Focusing on cultural expressions that are most likely to intermingle with copyright law, trademark and IP-adjacent regul......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
A collection of first-person narratives offering a vivid, nuanced look at the lived and shared experiences of Bering Str......more
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
A concise illustrated history of one of art’s most important and elusive elements Over the millennia, humans have used p......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
The days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are ove......more
This collection brings together current research into the development of the market for pre-modern manuscripts. Between ......more
Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor r......more
Women and Contemporary Art in the Gulf offers a unique focus on the roles of women in contemporary art, cultural product......more
What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditi......more
This volume explores how Italian institutions, dealers, critics, and artists constructed a modern national identity for ......more
Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-dept......more
Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse the rela......more
Museums, Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam analyses the relationship between museums, collections and social repa......more
...more
Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with t......more
Self-Determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatr......more
Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate ......more
Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and ......more