Museum Studies

This accessible volume examines the choices and tensions involved in the conservation and interpretation of our historic built heritage. Using a case-study format, the contributions come from a wide-range of heritage professionals...

As cultural tourism increases the management of heritage sites becomes more complex. This book examines these crucial management issues from a marketing approach, to identify the needs of all concerned...

This book challenges common perceptions of Marie Antoinette, appraising the last Queen of France’s role in relation to the events of French Revolution through an original analysis of contemporary heritage practices and visitor perceptions at her former home, the Petit Trianon...

The ideal guide to the ways in which museums can achieve a marketing orientation. It is essential reading for museum professionals, students and anyone in the heritage industry around the world...

Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses.  The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation of familiar opportunities and obstacles in museum de..

Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses.  The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation of familiar opportunities and obstacles in museum de..

Bringing together contributors from a broad range of perspectives from history to critical theory, this book argues that museums have become an institution and metaphor in contemporary society...

Bringing together contributors from a broad range of perspectives from history to critical theory, this book argues that museums have become an institution and metaphor in contemporary society...

This volume is a clear and practical guide to the difficult ethical questions museums work entails. Promoting the value of ethical theory and practice in museums, Edson tackles a number of key questions and also corrects some of the prevailing misconceptions about museum ethics, such as the differen..

This comprehensive study covers a wide range of exhibitions, care of exhibits, exhibition evaluation and administration...

This comprehensive study covers a wide range of exhibitions, care of exhibits, exhibition evaluation and administration...

Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design a..