What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing
The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. The political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at al
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies bring together original essays by a global team of experts to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field of museum studies.Creates an authoritative, m
Wish you were able to have one of the world’s leading museum consultants spend a couple of days with you, talking you through how to start a museum, how museums work, how to set up an exhibit, and mor
Wish you were able to have one of the world’s leading museum consultants spend a couple of days with you, talking you through how to start a museum, how museums work, how to set up an exhibit, and mor
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approachis a vital reference tool for all museum professionals. Beverly Serrell presents the reader with excellent guidelines on the process of exhibit label planning,
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approachis a vital reference tool for all museum professionals. Beverly Serrell presents the reader with excellent guidelines on the process of exhibit label planning,
From intellectual property law to navigating the hazards of social media, de-accessioning concerns to governance law, copyright, intellectual property law and rights and reproduction questions to issu
From intellectual property law to navigating the hazards of social media, de-accessioning concerns to governance law, copyright, intellectual property law and rights and reproduction questions to issu
One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understand
Get ready to tour some of the most amazing cities in the world! From urban artist Gabriel Campanario comes this amazing blank notebook, featuring some of Gabriel's most interesting sketches of major c
Case Studies in Cultural Entrepreneurshipoffers highly focused case studies that demonstrate the critical role entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking play in reinventing cultural organizations. Th
Case Studies in Cultural Entrepreneurshipoffers highly focused case studies that demonstrate the critical role entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking play in reinventing cultural organizations. Th
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 matterhow traditional the venue, from initial
Why is the Smithsonian more than the “Nation’s Attic?” Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadersh
Although cultural diplomacy has become an increasingly fashionable term embraced by academics, foreign-service personnel, and private sector commercial and cultural interests, the very practice of thi
