Museum Studies

Collating the views of international museum professionals, architects, designers and academics, this book highlights the complexity and significance of museum space, studies recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design...

Provides rare insights into visitor perceptions, this book explores the way natural history museum audiences imagine their evolutionary heritage and gives a fuller understanding about how to improve the relationship between museums and communities...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company...

Throws new light on the process of creating a national museum, and the difficulties of convincing society of the value of the past...

Snapshots of Museum Experience uses a method of photo-elicitation with child visitors to the museum in order to investigate children’s experience, rather than the usual focus on museum learning. By so doing, the book undermines many of our assumptions about the interests, needs and demands of child ..

An examination of the social and physical aspects of clothes which traces the history and development of clothing from the earliest times to the machine age...

An examination of the social and physical aspects of clothes which traces the history and development of clothing from the earliest times to the machine age...

Grounded in the strengths of its first edition, this book has been restructured to include new papers and recent articles, and presents front-running theory and practice as it addresses the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences...

The Engaging Museum is a practical guide book for museums and students on museum studies courses on how to create the highest quality experience for museum visitors...

The Engaging Museum is a practical guide book for museums and students on museum studies courses on how to create the highest quality experience for museum visitors...

In the changing landscape natural history museums find themselves The Future of Natural History Museums develops a cohesive discourse that balances the disparate issues that these institutions will face over the next twenty to fifty years. Thinkers from around the world, in a range of museums from t..