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An introduction to the key issues, controversies and debates which exist in museum management. This book considers subject areas such as strategic management, HRM and marketing.

Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums.

Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully-chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives.

A Museum studies Approach to Heritage is an introductory reader for postgraduate students of heritage studies, museum studies and those interested in how we conceptualise and use the past. Widening the scope of heritage studies by drawing on a range of disciplines as well as the best from established sources, the book also explores heritage through new areas of knowledge including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from other disciplines enables the volume to offer readers views of the past and future of this growing field.

A Museum studies Approach to Heritage is an introductory reader for postgraduate students of heritage studies, museum studies and those interested in how we conceptualise and use the past. Widening the scope of heritage studies by drawing on a range of disciplines as well as the best from established sources, the book also explores heritage through new areas of knowledge including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from other disciplines enables the volume to offer readers views of the past and future of this growing field.

Contains articles selected from across the breadth of museum disciplines, which are linked by a logical narrative. This work seeks to introduce classic pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. It is intended for students and museum practitioners involved in the field of material culture in museums.

Explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. This book focuses on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, and examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities.

Drawing together articles on theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this book investigates the linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles deal with the museum context of management and how marketing and management practices must take account of the specifics of the museum and the not-for-profit ethos.

A compilation of significant articles addressing the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences, focusing specifically on educational groups.

Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession. It bridges the gap between the basic museum generated literature and technical and detailed conservation literature.

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Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession. It bridges the gap between the basic museum generated literature and technical and detailed conservation literature.

Explores the developments, functions and meanings that are associated with museums' use of new technologies.

Bringing together significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.

This volume provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care including conservation practice, the monitoring of control of light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollution, biological infestation and disaster planning.

Contains articles selected from across the breadth of museum disciplines, which are linked by a logical narrative. This work seeks to introduce classic pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. It is intended for students and museum practitioners involved in the field of material culture in museums.

Explores the museums as a site of representation, identity and memory, and considers how it can influence its community. This book focuses on the museum as an institution, and its social and cultural setting, and examines how museums use their roles as informers and educators to empower, or to ignore, communities.

A practical introduction bringing together papers discussing some of the major issues affecting collections management in the 1990s.

Drawing together articles on theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this book investigates the linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles deal with the museum context of management and how marketing and management practices must take account of the specifics of the museum and the not-for-profit ethos.

A practical introduction bringing together papers discussing some of the major issues affecting collections management in the 1990s.

A compilation of significant articles addressing the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences, focusing specifically on educational groups.

This volume provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care including conservation practice, the monitoring of control of light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollution, biological infestation and disaster planning.

This edited volume gives evidence of the variety of views that exist about museums, and considers museum provision and professionalism in all their forms.

Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.