This extensive work not only describes the nature of conservation but also provides an ethical framework to which the conservation of objects as diverse as Old Masters to the ephemera of the twentieth century can be related.
Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, vie..
A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA..
Forward Planning provides a complete basic guide; from the principles on which planning is founded, through drawing up the plan itself, implementation..
The first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complext heritage of industrial cultur..
For more than ten years, this series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. These introductory volumes provide non-scient..
An examination of the social and physical aspects of clothes which traces the history and development of clothing from the earliest times to the machi..
Bringing together contributors from a broad range of perspectives from history to critical theory, this book argues that museums have become an instit..
The Presented Past challenges the representation of the past as objective and argues rather that it is `constructed'. This book will interest teachers..
As well as providing a meaningful theoretical basis to museum education, this volume serves as a practical guide for all museum professionals on how t..