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  • Museum Security and Protection

    A Handbook for Cultural Heritage Institutions

    Edited by Robert Burke, David Liston ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    The ICMS Handbook is acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures. It was first published as A Basic Guide to Museum Security, and is now fully revised, enlarged and updated. The manual covers: general principles security, theft and burglary: security personnel; training; collection management and transport; disaster planning; fire and environmental hazards; ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Museum

    Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    by Danny Danziger ...
    An ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Entertainment Weekly)Using more than fifty interviews, award-winning writer Danny Danziger creates a fascinating mosaic of the people behind New York?s magnificent Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the aristocratic, acerbic director of the museum, Philippe de Montebello, to the curators who have a deep knowledge and ... Read more

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  • Museums in a Troubled World

    Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse?

    by Robert R. Janes ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Are Museums Irrelevant?Museums are rarely acknowledged in the global discussion of climate change, environmental degradation, the inevitability of depleted fossil fuels, and the myriad local issues concerning the well-being of particular communities – suggesting the irrelevance of museums as social institutions. At the same time, there is a growing preoccupation among museums with the marketplace, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • On Collecting

    An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition

    by 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 ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 USD

  • Museum Texts

    Comunication Frameworks

    by Louise Ravelli ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?* Why do some choice in language make a more direct relation to visitors?* Is there a correct way of presenting a particular view of content?* How do design practices ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Learning in the Museum

    by George E. Hein ...
    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 ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Museums in a Digital Age

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Museum Exhibition

    Theory and Practice

    by David Dean ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    Museum Exhibition is the only textbook of its kind to consider exhibition development using both theory and practice in an integrated approach. This comprehensive study covers care of exhibits, writing accompanying text, using new technology, exhibition evaluation, administration and content for a wide range of collections. It provides a complete outline for all those concerned with providing ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Intangible Heritage

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Laurajane Smith, Natsuko Akagawa, Natsuko Akagawa ...
    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 ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Towards the Museum of the Future

    New European Perspectives

    Edited by Roger Miles, Lauro Zavala ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    Towards the Museum of the Future explores, through a series of authoritative essays, some of the major developments in European museums as they struggle to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It embraces a wide range of European countries, all types of museums and exhibitions and the needs of different museum audiences, and discusses the museum as communicator and educator in the context of current ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • Digital Heritage And Culture: Strategy And Implementation

    by Steven Wan Pok Wu, Herminia Wei-hsin Din ...
    This book addresses the state-of-the-art initiatives as well as challenges, policy, and strategy issues in developing a digital heritage ecosystem within the broader context of an emerging digital culture. Case studies are drawn from the United States, Europe, and Asia to showcase the breadth of innovative ideas in delivering, communicating, interpreting, and transforming cultural heritage content ... Read more

    $41.39 USD