The first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complext heritage of industrial cultures. A practical book drawing examples from real issues in Europe and North America...
The first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complext heritage of industrial cultures. A practical book drawing examples from real issues in Europe and North America...
A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada...
A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada...
This engaging volume reveals how politics permeates all facets of museum practice, particularly in regions of political conflict. In these settings, museums can be extraordinarily influential for shaping identity and collective memory and for peace building. Using key Cypriote archaeological, histor..
The Presented Past challenges the representation of the past as objective and argues rather that it is `constructed'. This book will interest teachers, archaeologists and cultural resource managers...
Examines how the recent boom in the museum and heritage industry has led to its increasing commercialisation, which, Walsh argues, frequently serves only to distance us from our own heritage...
For more than ten years, this series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. These introductory volumes provide non-scientists with the essential theoretical background to their work...
Since the previous edition of The Troubles of Journalism, many significant challenges have occurred in the media: the events of September 11, the war on terrorism, mergers and consolidation of media ownership, new concerns about press credibility,..
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians which address the contradictions posed by museum and gallery staged exhibitions, and the challenge of staging art presentations and displays...