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  • The Responsive Museum

    Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century

    by Caroline Lang, John Reeve ...
    What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's challenges and the debates that have resulted. The highly experienced team of writers, including museum educators ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Engaging Museum

    Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement

    by 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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Civilizing Rituals

    Inside Public Art Museums

    by Carol Duncan ...
    Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private individuals present art , and how art museums are shaped by cultural, social and political determinants ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Inside the Museums

    Toronto's Heritage Sites and their Most Prized Objects

    by John Goddard ...
    Heritage Toronto Book Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction BookIlluminates Toronto’s early history through its small heritage museums.A portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie stares from a mural at Queen subway station, his face as round and orange as a wheel of cheese. He served as Toronto’s first mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and was grandfather to William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Boston Raphael

    A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change and a Daughter's Search for the Truth

    by Belinda Rathbone ...
    The discovery of a previously unknown painting by an Italian Renaissance master, and how it went from media sensation to career-ending scandal.On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Museums and Education

    Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance

    by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance.The need to theorise learning and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

  • Sex Museums

    The Politics and Performance of Display

    by Jennifer Tyburczy ...
    Winner of the 29th annual Lambda Literary Award for LGBT StudiesAll museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality—particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed—and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality. Most museum exhibits, she argues, assume that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice

    Decolonizing Engagement

    by Bryony Onciul ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum community engagement and the process of self-representation, specifically how the First Nations Elders of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Thinking About Exhibitions

    by Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne ...
    An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales. ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Difficult Heritage

    Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

    by Sharon Macdonald ...
    How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have?Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked with Nazism – to explore these questions and their implications. Using an original in-depth research, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Gender, Sexuality and Museums

    A Routledge Reader

    Edited by Amy K. Levin ...
    Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on women and museums. At last, students of museum studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies and museum ... Read more

    $80.99 USD