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  • New Heritage

    New Media and Cultural Heritage

    The use of new media in the service of cultural heritage is a fast growing field, known variously as virtual or digital heritage. New Heritage, under this denomination, broadens the definition of the field to address the complexity of cultural heritage such as the related social, political and economic issues. This book is a collection of 20 key essays, of authors from 11 countries, representing a ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

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  • Making Museums Matter

    de Stephen Weil ...
    In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts, a detailed consideration of how the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

    de Adrian George ...
    A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of influential curators.The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.An introduction explores curatorial work from its ... Leer más

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  • The Engaging Museum

    Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

    de Graham Black ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards.This holistic ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Places of Pain and Shame

    Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Learning in the Museum

    Series series Museum Meanings
    Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums.Hein combines a brief history of education in public museums, with a rigorous examination of how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky and subsequent theorists relate to learning in the ... Leer más

    $75.99 USD

  • Museums in a Digital Age

    Edición de Ross Parry ...
    Series series Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
    The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site.However, ‘digital heritage’ (as an area of practice ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • On Collecting

    An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition

    de Susan Pearce ...
    Series series Collecting Cultures
    On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on certain objects and how does this add meaning to our lives? Do men and women collect differently? How ... Leer más

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  • Whose Culture?

    The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Intangible Heritage

    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of ‘intangible heritage’ to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined and managed in both national and ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Museum Ethics

    Theory and Practice

    Edición de Gary Edson ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    A number of developments in the museum movement during the last few years have forced museums to give greater attention to ethical issues. Members of a profession are increasingly regarded constituting an ethical community. Every person with such a community must have a sense of personal obligation as well as a responsibilty for others to assure ethical achievement. This volume firmly places ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Making Representations

    Museums in the Post-Colonial Era

    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and forging new relationships with communities.Simpson examines the increasing number of museums and cultural centres being established by indigenous ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD