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“lois h silverman”

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  • The Social Work of Museums

    by Lois H. Silverman ...
    Museums may not seem at first glance to be engaged in social work. Yet, Lois H. Silverman brings together here relevant visitor studies, trends in international practice, and compelling examples that demonstrate how museums everywhere are using their unique resources to benefit human relationships and, ultimately, to repair the world. In this groundbreaking book, Silverman forges a framework of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Conservation Concerns

    A Guide for Collectors and Curators

    by Konstanze Bachmann ...
    Written in accessible, nontechnical language, this book's twenty-three essays provide invaluable conservation guidelines for a variety of materials and media. Focusing also on proper storage techniques and environmental control, contributors offer information on emergency planning, disaster management, and identifying damages that may require professional treatment. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Elements of Archaeological Conservation

    by J.M. Cronyn ...
    Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this is the only comprehensive book on the subject at an introductory level.Perfect as a practical reference book for professional and students who work with excavated materials, and as an introduction for those training as archaeological conservators. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Places of Pain and Shame

    Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

    Edited by William Logan, Keir Reeves ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community’s history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases – or, conversely, choose to forget them.Such episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Whose Culture?

    The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

    Edited by James Cuno ...
    The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Museums, Heritage and International Development

    Edited by Paul Basu, Wayne Modest ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
    While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Museums and Communities

    Curators, Collections and Collaboration

    Edited by Viv Golding, Wayne Modest ...
    This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities.The book unpacks ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Museum Communication and Social Media

    The Connected Museum

    by Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    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 debates and practices. Young people, as both early adopters of digital forms of communication and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Museum Materialities

    Objects, Engagements, Interpretations

    Edited by Sandra Dudley ...
    This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Risk Assessment for Object Conservation

    by Jonathan Ashley-Smith ...
    'Risk Assessment for Object Conservation' reflects Dr Jonathan Ashley-Smith's personal interests and views in areas including materials science, the ethics of restoration, the costs of conservation and the philosophy of museums. This valuable book explains the mechanisms of deterioration of museum artifacts, quantifying the probability that damage will occur and estimating the rate of progress ... Read more

    $242.99 CAD

  • Museum Storage and Meaning

    Tales from the Crypt

    Edited by Mirjam Brusius, Kavita Singh ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Beyond their often beautiful exhibition halls, many museums contain vast, hidden spaces in which objects may be stored, conserved, or processed. Museums can also include unseen archives, study rooms, and libraries which are inaccessible to the public. This collection of essays focuses on this domain, an area that has hitherto received little attention. Divided into four sections, the book ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD