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Bloomsbury USA A Queer Inheritance
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V & A Publishing The Making of VA East
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HarperCollins Publishers A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
Book SynopsisA Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts?''A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration of nature, history, and of course the countryside.'' Charles Spencer, author of The White ShipFor most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. We poured our energies into growing food, tending to animals and watching the weather. Family, friends and neighbours were often one and the same. Life revolved around the village and its key spaces and places the church, the green, the school and the marketplace.And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold.There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history. From farming tools to children's toys, domestic objects and strange curios, the everyday items of the past reveal fascinating insights into an often-forgotten way of life. Birth, death, celebration, work, crime, play, medicine, beliefs, diet and our relationship with nature can all be read from these remnants of our past.From ancient artefacts to modern-day memorabilia, this startling book weaves a rich tapestry from the fragments of our rural past.
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Octopus Publishing Group Ghosts of the British Museum
Book Synopsis''An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring for attention.'' - Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin Of All Witches''Fascinating and illuminating'' - Peter Ackroyd''Brilliantly delicate, pointed, shivery...'' - Erin L. Thompson, professor of art crime at the City University of New York''Achieves a near-impossible marriage between paranormal pop-culture, folklore and hauntology'' - Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of GhostsWhat if the British Museum isn''t a carefully ordered cross section of history but is in instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot - swarming with volatile and errant spirits?When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a deluge as staff old and new - from overnight security to respected curators - brought him testimonies of their supernatural encounters.It became clear that the source of the disturbances was related to the Museum''s contents - unquiet objects, holy plunder, and restless human remains protesting their enforced stay within the colonial collection''s cabinets and deep underground vaults. According to those who have worked there, the institution is heaving with profound spectral disorder.Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world''s oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where restless objects are held against their will.It now appears that the objects are fighting back.
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Octopus Publishing Group Ghosts of the British Museum
Book SynopsisAn artist investigates strange goings on at the British museum - and uncovers a maelstrom of disquiet within its corridors, galleries and vaults“An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring for attention.” - Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin Of All Witches“Fascinating and illuminating” - Peter Ackroyd“Brilliantly delicate, pointed, shivery... You could read it as a guide to which galleries to avoid - or to where the push for repatriation should be most urgent.” - Erin L. Thompson, professor of art crime at the City University of New York“Achieves a near-impossible marriage between paranormal pop-culture, folklore and hauntology” -
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Yale University Press Design for Continuity and Change The Frick Collection
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Reaktion Books Plunder
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Editions Skira Paris Comilog Foundation Catalogue
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Reaktion Books Plunder
Book SynopsisA thought-provoking examination of the allegedly immoral provenance of Western museum collections.
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Distributed Art Pub The Ultimate Museum Book
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Battle for the Museum
Book SynopsisCulture and power have been bedfellows since ancient timesin the case of exhibits and collections, now more than ever. Protests force out patrons and curators, and pressure museums to abandon fossil fuel sponsorship. Campaigners demand equality and diversity, condemn exploitation of artists and staff, and urge restitution of imperially tainted objects.Journalist Rachel Spence has watched visual arts become a flashpoint for today's social divisions. She interviews artists, activists, directors and donors, revealing elitism and injustice. Business and finance launder their reputations throughpatronage, while governments exert authority by weaponising or attacking the artsand gallery-goers and workers mobilise to demand better. How did we get here, and what awaits these institutions?From China and Russia to Helsinki and Brooklyn, from the British Museum to the Louvre and Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi,Battle for the Museumuncovers a dark nexus of capital, art and powerand
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Bloomsbury Academic Museum Flack
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The BrainFriendly Museum
Book SynopsisThe Brain-Friendly Museum proposes an innovative approach to experiencing and enjoying the museum environment in new ways, based on the systematic application of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Providing practical guidance on navigating and thinking about museums in different ways, the book is designed to help develop more fulfilling visitor experiences. It explores our cognitive processes and emotions, and how they can be used to engage with and enjoy the museum environment, regardless of the visitor's background, language, or culture. The book considers core cognitive processes, including memory, attention, and perception, and how they can successfully be applied to the museum environment, for example, in creating more effective displays. Using evidence-based examples throughout, the book advocates for a wellbeing approach improving visitor experience, and one that is grounded in research from psychology and neuroscience. This book is a must-read for Table of Contents1. The Brain-Friendly Museum: How Psychology and Neuroscience Can Help Museums to be Brain-Friendly and Promote Wellbeing. 2. Emotions: The First Connection to Our Cultural Heritage. 3. Perception and Museum Display. 4. Attention, Memory, and Learning in Museums. 5. What is the Right Language and Type of Communication to Engage Different Kinds of Museum Audiences? 6. Problem Solving, Decision-Making, Judgement, Reasoning, and Creativity: The Role Of Museums in the Visitors' Cognitive Growth. 7. Musuems, The "Magic Box", and Neuroscience Tools. 8. Museums: How They Foster Wellbeing. A Round-Up of Initiatives 9. Parallel Worlds: Popular Education Through Neuroscience and the Fine Arts 10. The Museum And Quality of Life. 11. Unlocking Value In Museums and Art Galleries Through Measuring Wellbeing. 12. The Museum's Mind: A Genetic Code For Cultural Exhibitions. 13. Virtual Reality and Neuroarchaeology: Visual Perception and Cognition of an Archaeological Excavation. An End That is a Beginning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums and Interactive Virtual Learning
Book SynopsisMuseums and Interactive Virtual Learning provides informal educators with practical resources that will help them to build dynamic digital engagement experiences within their own cultural organizations.Presenting vignettes from experienced museum educators and end users, as well as scientific data and practical resources, the book highlights the mutual benefits that Interactive Virtual Learning (IVL) programs offer to the museum and those visiting from a distance. Chapters mirror the step-by-step process of developing reputable IVL programs and emphasize how important it is for cultural organizations to encourage cross-departmental collaboration, if they wish to ensure that their programs align with the overall goals of the organization. Providing a thorough overview of the technologies, budget, marketing and staff requirements, the authors offer a realistic depiction of the work involved in building content for digital engagement. Emphasizing the importance of assesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The History & Practice of Interactive Virtual Learning in Museums; 2. The Market and Audience for IVL in Museums; 3. IVL Broadcast Environments Physical and Virtual Setups; 4. IVL Program Creation; 5. Staffing and Scheduling; 6. Marketing IVL Programs; 7. Funding and Budgeting for the IVL Initiative; 8. Connecting to Diverse Audiences; 9. How Virtual Experiences can Impact Learning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anticolonial Museum
Book SynopsisThe Anticolonial Museum acknowledges some of the consequences of colonialism in the current work of museums. Looking at museum theory in a critical way, it proposes a radical revision of museums' rhetoric on decolonisation, as well as their public image and practices.Bringing together a collection of reflections on decolonisation through the observation of museum performance and discourse, the author considers current practices in response to the social claims of marginalised groups and activists. Drawing from a genealogy of decolonial thinking in museology, Brulon Soares identifies the inherent paradoxes reflected in museum work. The book's focus is not exclusively on the reality of colonised countries, nor on the context of former imperialist nationsinstead, it raises anticolonial questions, finding common ground between the different actors involved in the museum: scholars, students, curators, practitioners, community members and Indigenous creators. One of the ceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Dismantling the showcase; 1. Heritage in exile; 2. On borders: Deconstructing the modern museum; 3. A time for the margins: On reconstructing and rehumanising; 4. Redistributing the museum: Towards a museology of hope; Conclusions: Reflections for our past’s future; References; Index.
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor
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Taylor & Francis The Perpetuation of SiteSpecific Installation Artworks in Museums
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transcript Verlag Caring Infrastructures
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Taylor & Francis The Conservators Cookbook
Book SynopsisThe Conservatorâs Cookbook is a collection of practical, step-by-step guides outlining how to prepare various solutions, adhesives, gels, and other mixtures used in heritage conservation.While most conservators learn the chemical rationale of solution-making during their training, the actual process of preparing these compounds can be neglected or eventually forgotten. This âœcookbookâ provides a non-exhaustive and adaptable resource, compiling practical recipes from across heritage conservation literature into a single volume. Drawing from techniques used in furniture, paper, paintings, textiles, and other conservation specialisms, each âœrecipeâ in the Cookbook begins with a short summary of key chemical ideas, before relating step-by-step instructions. The solutions range from simple dissolutions (adhesive resins), to more complex cleaning systems (utilising surfactants, chelation agents, and enzymes) and gelled carriers. Each âœrecipeâ is followed with collections
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Yale University Press Symbolic Machines Institutional Transformation through Exhibitions
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Versailles Science and Splendour
Book Synopsis A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles published to accompany the exhibition at London's Science Museum. Between the 1660s and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal palace of Versailles commonly associated with its architecture, gardens and courtly splendour was also a place of serious scientific enquiry. This engaging book reveals how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence.Versailles: Science and Splendour explores the relationship between science and power during the reigns of kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, a period when the practice of what we now call science' changed significantly, and highlights how science and empire were connected at Versailles. This book, which accompanies a temporary exhibition at the Science Museum in London, features 16 chapters by experts from Britain, France and America. Each chapter is inspired by fascinating objects, from a stuffed rhinoceros to an exquisite astronomical clock. The stories covered range from the early days of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and the engineering behind Versailles's fountains, to the menagerie of rare animals that lived in the grounds and the first hot-air balloon flight at the palace.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Library Lives
Book SynopsisLibrary Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands plots the lifelong love affair between one particular book worm and the John Rylands Library and its collections in Manchester.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Secret Museum
Book SynopsisThe Secret Museum is a unique treasure trove of the most intriguing artifacts hidden away in museum archives from all over the world curated, brought to light, and brought to life by Molly Oldfield in a beautifully illustrated collection.
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Oxford University Press Keeping Their Marbles
Book SynopsisThe fabulous collections housed in the world''s most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the Trade ReviewExcellent. * James Heartfield, Spiked *Full of fascinating material. * Christopher Allen, Australian Book Review *5 stars: From Greece's Elgin Marbles to Nigeria's Benin Bronzes, archaeological finds from around the world are held by the West's top museums. This is the story of their often bloody acquisitions - and a well argued case for keeping them there. * Juanita Coulson, The Lady *Books of the year 2016 * Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald *Ms. Jenkins has produced a courageous and well-argued book; the howls you hear in the background are those of the contrition crowd. * Wall Street Journal *Brilliant and fascinating * James Delingpole, Spectator *The dubious means by which museum collections were gathered has fuelled the demands for treasures to be repatriated. Surely they ought to be returned? No, says Tiffany Jenkins, a culture writer, and she marshals a powerful case. * Robbie Millen, The Times *This book is both a lucid account of how the great world museums came by their treasures and a robust argument as to why (human remains such as bones aside) they should keep them. * Michael Prodger, RA Magazine *An outstanding achievement, clear-headed, wide-ranging and incisive. * John Carey, The Sunday Times *Tiffany Jenkins applies her considerable experience of cultural policy to construct an excellent survey ... Her level-headed and balanced book ... is a valuable contribution to the international debate, and will enrich audiences and scholars for a long time to come. * Mark Fisher, Spectator *[Jenkins] has much of interest to say about the development of museums and their changing ideology. * Peter Jones, BBC History magazine *a potted but vivid history * Art Newspaper *[An] eloquent defence of museums ... The arguments in this book are well-considered and not just one-sided ... A well-researched and thought-provoking take on a very complex and controversial subject. Using an array of captivating examples, the book addresses a range of broader heritage issues such as treatment of human remains, the role of museums today and how to protect the past. * Lucia Marchini, Minerva *Jenkins does an excellent job of portraying the extreme reactions elicited by repatriation conversations. * David Hurst Thomas, Nature *clear, informed and well-referenced ... Specialists, and anyone with an interest in contemporary culture, can equally enjoy and learn from this calm, balanced and respectful review, in a field distinguished more by polemic than wisdom. * Mike Pitts, British Archaeology *Jenkin's book provides a welcome introduction to some of the questions facing museums today. * William St Clair, Literary Review *[Jenkins] elegantly lines up the arguments and provides careful, balanced and well-considered responses. * Adrian Spooner, Classics for All *Jenkins skilfully critiques the manifold issues that beleaguer museums today. * David Lowenthal, Evening Standard *Anyone who thinks that issues of cultural property and "repatriation" are simple should read this book. Jenkins elegantly explores the complexity of individual cases such as the Elgin Marbles and of the big overarching question: who owns culture? * Mary Beard, author of SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome *The question of how best to protect the world's cultural heritage, and what role museums, nations states, and international bodies play in doing so, or in not doing so, is a vexed one. And in the time of IS, it is an urgent one. Tiffany Jenkins sets out a clear, compelling, and at times controversial case for, and sometimes against, museums as repositories and interpreters of the past in a time of nation building. She argues that we are asking too much of our museums, that we want them to serve narrow ideological purposes of cultural and political identity. There is much to agree with in this argument, and of course, much with which to disagree. That's what makes this book a must-read. * James Cuno, art historian, author, and President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust *Table of ContentsIntroductionPART I 1: Great Explorers and Curious Collectors 2: The Birth of the Public Museum 3: Antiquity Fever 4: Cases of LootPART II 5: Museum Wars 6: Who Owns Culture? 7: The Rise of Identity Museums 8: Atonement: Making Amends for Past Wrongs 9: Burying Knowledge: The Fate of Human Remains Concluding Thoughts Notes Further Reading Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums and the Working Class
Book SynopsisMuseums and the Working Class is the first book to take an intersectional and international approach to the issues of economic diversity and class within the field of museum studies. Bringing together 16 contributors from eight countries, this book has emerged from the significant global dialogue concerning museums' obligation to be inclusive, participate in meaningful engagement and advocate for social change. As part of the push for museums to be more accessible and inclusive, museums have been challenged to critically examine their power relationships and how these are played out in what they collect, whose stories they exhibit and who is made to feel welcome in their halls. This volume will further this professional and academic debate through the discussion of class. Contributions to the book will also reinforce the importance of the working class not only in collection and exhibition policy, but also for the organisational psychology of institutionTable of ContentsIntroduction - ‘Which Side Are You On'? Towards Meaningful Attention to Class in MuseumsAdele ChynowethPart I - Shut Out: Access and the Working Class 1. ‘A Permanent Civilising Effect’? The Impact of Reforming Working-Class Museum Visitors in Liverpool during the Nineteenth CenturyAlexander Scott 2. How British Museums Have Failed the Working ClassDavid Fleming 3. Seat of the Muses or the Moolah? New Working Class Demands on Elitist Archival PracticesSilvio Tamaso D’Onofrio Part II - Shut Up: the Struggle to End the Silence4. ‘One and All’? Retrieving South Australia’s Forgotten Labor History Philip Payton 5. ‘Go and Take a Look at Millie Now’: Murder, Tattooed Remains, and Museum Ethics in QuebecJamie Jelinksi 6. Museums in Late Populist Democracies: the Photographic Archive and the Working Class Paolo Magagnoli 7. Women´s Work in Coastal Galicia: Shining a Light on the Unseen at the Marea MuseumJosé Manuel Vázquez Lijó Part III - Know Your Place: Site-Specific Narratives8. Erasure of Working-Class Heritage in Conservation Plans: Absent Presence in the Walled City of LahoreRabia Nadir 9. Eugene V. Debs' Museum and the Preservation of Radical Working-Class Political Memory Wesley R. Bishop 10. Keeping Your Head Down at the Hyde Park Barracks MuseumAdele Chynoweth 11. From Factory to Museum: The Obliteration of the History of Resistance Meral Akbaş and Özge Kelekçi Part IV- Answering Back: Lessons from the Working and Poverty Classes12. Looking Backwards, Planning Forward: ‘Museum as Muck’ Advocating for the Working Class in Museums Michelle McGrath, in conversation with Adele Chynoweth 13. Changing Lives at the Scottish Maritime MuseumMartin Hughes 14. House of Memories: Care and Equality in the UK Museum SectorKerry Wilson 15. Ngintaka Songline Tracks in the MuseumDiana James
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Decolonizing Colonial Heritage
Book SynopsisDecolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Europe in the postcolonial present could look like. Including contributions from academics, artists and heritage practitioners, the volume explores decolonial heritage practices in politics, contemporary history, diplomacy, museum practice, the visual arts and self-generated memorial expressions in public spaces. The comparative focus of the chapters includes examples of internal colonization in Europe and extends to former European colonies, among them Shanghai, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. Examining practices in a range of different contexts, the book pays particular attention to sub-national actors whose work is opening up new futures through their engagement with decolonial heritage practices in the present. The vTable of ContentsLists of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Haunted Worlds: Ghosts of the Colonial Past: Chapter 1: Europe and Its Entangled Colonial Pasts: Europeanizing the ‘Imperial Turn; Chapter 2: 1917, Brexit and Imperial Nostalgia: A Longing for the Future; Chapter 3: Spectres of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town; Chapter 4: Decolonizing the Narrative of Portuguese Empire: Life Stories of African Presence, Heritage and Memory; Chapter 5: Decolonizing Warsaw: The Multiple Afterlives of ‘Ali’; Part II: Contemporary Heritage Practices: New Agents, Urban Space Events, Intercultural Encounters: (i) Museums and curatorship: Chapter 6: Curating Colonial Heritage in Amsterdam, Warsaw and Shanghai’s Museums: No Single Road to Decolonization; Chapter 7: The Influence of Western Colonial Culture on Shanghai: A Case Study of the ‘Modern Shanghai’ Exhibition at the Shanghai History Museum; Chapter 8: Decolonizing Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019), The Turning Point of Curatorship; (ii) Echoes of colonial heritage, visual culture and site-specific art: Chapter 9: Sensitive Memories at a World Heritage Site: Silencing and Resistance at the Valongo Wharf; Chapter 10: Traces of Contempt and Traces of Self-Esteem: Deconstructing our Toxic Colonial Legacy; Chapter 11: Reframing the Colonial in Postcolonial Lisbon: Placemaking and the Aestheticization of Interculturality; Chapter 12: Aesthetics and Colonial Heritage: An Interview with Artists Based in Marseille; Chapter 13: Enslaved Bodies, Entangled Sites and the Memory of Slavery in Cape Town: The Meeting of the Dead and the Living; Part III:Imagining Decolonial Futures: Chapter 14: Decolonial Countervisuality; Chapter 15: New Diplomacy and Decolonial Heritage Practices; Chapter 16: Decolonial Voices, Colonialism and the Limits of European Liberalism: The European Question Revisited; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Future of Digital Data Heritage and Curation
Book SynopsisThe Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a contemporary and future world. Presenting a diverse range of case examples from around the globe, Cameron offers a critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in which digital cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data worth passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of digital cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the book also examines the complicity of such heritage in climate change, and environmental destruction and injustice. Going further still, the book theorizes the future of digital data, heritage, curation and the notion of the human in the context of the profusion of new types of societal data and production processes driven by theTrade Review'In this highly prescient and original account, Fiona Cameron interrogates the vexed future custodianship of digital data. By bringing her incisive cultural heritage studies knowledge to bear on our rapidly increasing entanglement with the born-digital archive of objects, data and media, The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation advances a powerful conceptual framework for the curation and conservation of potentially every utterance of our private and public worlds: "Strikingly, digital data as heritage is not just the new fabric of human life, it is radically embedded in the vast and sprawling ecological circumstances of life itself."' Hannah Lewi, The University of Melbourne, Australia"This book offers an innovative new approach to digital cultural heritage. This is a fast moving but under-examined topic, but Fiona Cameron’s approach is different, focusing right in on central contemporary issues, using an up to the minute conceptual framework, engaging closely with museum theory and practice, and enlivened by lots of illustrations, examples, case studies and useful applications, everything from AI, Trump’s tweets, and sex bots to digitisation, informatics and museum CMS. In contrast to old fashioned humanist, materialist, Eurocentric approaches, Cameron argues that we have to understand digital cultural heritage through a lens which is ecological, post-humanist, and ‘more than human’. The idea of ‘eco-curating’ is a striking environmentalist/relational/networked reformulation of conventional curating as we know it."Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction: Refiguring digital cultural heritage and curation; 2. The official birth of digital data as universal heritage; 3. Digital data as the heritage of the modern world; 4. Object concepts in digital cultural heritage; 5. From objects to ecological formations; 6. Digital data and artifactual production; 7. Curating inside the archive and out in the world; 8. The rise of more-than-human digital heritage in the Technosphere; 9. Conclusion: Framing a more-than-human digital museology
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Taylor & Francis Legacies of an Imperial City
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries' shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations.At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public's evolving social and political attitudes, the museum's 19931994 The Peopling of London' exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums' role in enacting change in the public's understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London's theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions.
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Taylor & Francis Museum Exhibition Theory and Practice Heritage CarePreservationManagement
Book SynopsisMuseum 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 displays in museums and other cultural heritage contexts.Trade Review'This is an ambitious undertaking for a single volume, but it does meet a need for a good overview of all of the issues affecting the creation of exhibitions and displays.' - Tak Tent, Scottish Museums CouncilTable of ContentsIntroduction The museum exhibition mission, 1 The exhibition development process 2 Audiences and learning 3 Designing exhibitions 4 Controlling the exhibition environment 5 Exhibition administration 6 Exhibition evaluation 7 Storyline and text development 8 Computers in the exhibition environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Learning in the Museum Museum Meanings
Book SynopsisLearning 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 museum.Surveying a wide range of research methods employed in visitor studies is illustrated with examples taken from museums around the world, Hein explores how visitors can best learn from exhibitions which are physically, socially, and intellectually accessible to every single visitor. He shows how museums can adapt to create this kind of environment, to provide what he calls the ''constructivist museum''.Providing essential theoretical analysis for students, this volume also serves as a practical guide for all museum professionals on how to adapt their museums tTable of Contents1. The Significance of Museum Education Introduction A Brief History of Museum Education The Significance of Education in Museums Definitions of Education Formal and Informal Education Education Within the Museum Profession Interpretations of Culture Museums in a Changing World Museums as Active Preservers of Culture Conclusion
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Pluto Press Fifteen Colonial Thefts
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University of the Arts,Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative,US What Makes a great Exhibition
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Cambridge University Press Here and Now at Historic Sites
Book SynopsisThe study explores the meaning-making of cultural heritage in school field trips to five sites in the region Östergötland in Sweden. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Things of the Past
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Cambridge University Press A Chinese Discourse of Heritage
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Cambridge University Press Sovereign Heritage Crime
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times
Book SynopsisRethinking Heritage in Precarious Times sets a fresh agenda for Heritage Studies by reflecting upon the unprecedented nature of the contemporary moment. In doing so, the volume also calls into question established ideas, ways of working, and understandings of the future.Presenting contributions by leading figures in the field of Heritage Studies, Indigenous scholars, and scholars from across the global north and global south, the volume engages with the most pressing issues of today: coloniality, the climate emergency, the Covid-19 pandemic, structural racism, growing social and economic inequality, and the ongoing struggle for dignity and restitution.Considering the impact of climate change, chapters re-imagine museums for climate action, explore the notion of a world heritage for the Anthropocene, and reflect on heritage and posthumanism. Drawing inspiration from the global demonstrations against racism, police violence and authoritarianism, chapters explore the noTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking heritage in precarious times; SECTION 1: ‘The Heritage through my Window’ and Stateless Heritage: Chapter 1 The Heritage through my Window: Some reflections on teaching in the Brazilian Amazon during the Covid-19 pandemic; Chapter 2 Covid Heritage Imperatives as New Pharmacologies of Care: Revelations of ‘Heritage Beyond Power’ and ‘What Makes Life Worth Living’; SECTION 2: More-than-human Heritage: Chapter 3 Heritage and Posthumanism: Seeking harmony in a precarious and unstable world; Chapter 4 River Love: Decolonizing heritage along the Meuse; SECTION 3: Climate Action and the Anthropocene: Chapter 5 The Speculative and the Profane: Reimagining heritage and museums for climate action; Chapter 6 Towards a World Heritage for the Anthropocene; SECTION 4: Heritage Violence and Extractivism: Chapter 7 Rural Landscapes, Extraction and Heritage Violence in the Middle East; Chapter 8 Reckoning with Extractivism: Towards an Anti-Colonial Heritage; SECTION 5: Anti-Racism, People’s Heritage, and ‘Difficult Heritage at the Door’: Chapter 9 Heritage, Social Justice and Black Lives Matter in Ireland during Covid-19; Chapter 10 A People’s Heritage: Engaging the traumas of marginalization; Chapter 11 Difficult Heritage at the Door: Doing heritage research in precarious times; SECTION 6: Coloniality, Peace Building, and Social Justice: Chapter 12 Entries in an Apocryphal Diary: Heritage, crisis, turbulent times; Chapter 13 Heritage, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Australia and New Zealand; SECTION 7: Unsettled Urbanisms and Emergent Internationalisms: Chapter 14 Unsettling the Heritage of Urbanity: Urbanism and urban spaces in pandemic times; Chapter 15 Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and Heritage Futures; SECTION 8: Heritage Futures and ‘News from Nowhere’: Chapter 16 Covid-19 and Heritage in Southern Africa: Precariousness, resilience, and the future of heritage; Chapter 17 Dreaming of Utopia in Times of Trouble: Nowherian heritage inspiration and radical nostalgia during lockdown; Conclusion: When the taps run dry.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Sustainable Museum
Book SynopsisThe Sustainable Museum is the first book to outline a coherent strategy for the direction of museums, as it relates to sustainability in the museum and heritage sector.Arguing that museums must place sustainability at the centre of all their activities, if they are to become key actors with a clear societal role, Garthe considers the issues that museums will likely face as they take on their new roles. Presenting case studies from a wide range of museums around the world, the book considers different ways of implementing sustainability in different types and sizes of institutions. Whilst the book clearly outlines the need for change, it also provides guidance about how to change. Garthe does this by considering specific concepts and approaches to sustainability in relation to the different aspects of museum operations. The book includes a hands-on manual for implementing sustainability management in a museum, whilst also considering the challenges practitioners will Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Sustainability in museums as a search and learning process; PART I: MUSEUMS AND SUSTAINABILITY: Chapter 2: The museum sector in transition; Chapter 3: The vision: the sustainable museum; Chapter 4: Three levers for the Transformation; PART II: SUSTAINABLE MUSEUM MANAGEMENT: Chapter 5: Transformational leadership and museum governance; Chapter 6: Sustainable management and eco-efficient museum operations; Chapter 7: Realigning collections and sustainable conservation; Chapter 8: Transdisciplinary research and sustainability science in museums; Chapter 9: Collaborative curation and sustainable exhibitions; Chapter 10: Sustainable education and participation in museums; PART III: PUTTING SUSTAINABILITY INTO PRACTICE; Chapter 11: Sustainability in museums as a process of change; Chapter 12: Sustainability strategy, targets and indicators in museums; Chapter 13: Implementation and sustainability reporting in museums; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable
Book SynopsisDrawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention, explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields.Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH, the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors, who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds, explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention, their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention.InTable of ContentsThe rise of sustainable development in the convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage PART I The international legal and policy framework: sustainability as a political and moral imperative 1 Sustainable development and human rights in safeguarding ICH: positive goals or an internal contradiction? 2 The reorientation of a convention: UNESCO, intangible heritage, and sustainable development 3 How and why the SDGs entered the paradigm of safeguarding intangible heritage: the “Sixth Chapter” PART II Ownership, intellectual property, commons 4 Ownership and rights: sustainable development ideals with inequalities of recognition and resource management 5 Misappropriation, intellectual property, and ethics 6 Governing intangible cultural heritage commons PART III Negotiating inclusiveness 7 No sustainability without materiality: complex paths to good practices in Switzerland 8 Safeguarding the intangible heritage of Indigenous peoples: a conceptual distance in intergovernmental discourses PART IV Intangible cultural heritage economics:decontextualization, precarity, and entrepreneurship 9 Decontextualization from UNESCO to China: the embarrassment and empowerment of economic uses of intangible cultural heritage 10 Intangible cultural heritage, sustainability, and the COVID-19 in Marrakech11 Popular music and heritage embarrassment in Brazil
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Museums and Digital Maturity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Toxic Heritage
Book SynopsisToxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in reTable of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Toxic Heritage: An Introduction. Section 1: Introduction - Section 1 "Framing Toxicity": Chapter 1: Toxic legacies of slickens in California: a mobile heritage of hydraulic mining debris; Visual Essay 1: Visual Essay: Extraction old and new: toxic legacies of mining the desert in southwestern Africa; Chapter 2: Of blaes and bings: the (non)toxic heritage of the West Lothian oil shale industry; Chapter 3: When Toxic Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity as Lived Experience; Chapter 4: Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change. Section 2: Introduction - Section 2 "The Politics of Toxic Heritage": Chapter 5: Heritage-led Regeneration and the Sanitisation of Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley; Case Study 1: Ghost Wrecks of the Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War; Chapter 6: Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canada’s Newest National Park Reserve; Case Study 2: Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine; Chapter 7: Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama Desert; Case Study 3: Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The toxic leachate of households’ waste in an area of urban decay in Tehran (Iran); Chapter 8: Toxic Landmarking and Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana. Section 3: Section 3 Affected Communities, Activism, and Agency – Introduction: Chapter 9: Reluctant Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past; Case Study 4: Public Memory of Toxic Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and Superfund Remediation in Federally Assisted Housing Communities; Visual Essay 2: Translating and Transforming Toxicity: Moving Between Ethnography and Graphic Art; Chapter 10: Preservation by demolition: Toxic heritage in contemporary China; Chapter 11: Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu: Toxic Materials, Remediation, Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal); Chapter 12: Environmental and Embodied Agro-toxic heritage in Rural Uruguay: From Recognition to Transition to Sustainability among Dairy Farmers. Section 4 Introduction - Section 4 "Narratives of Toxic Heritage": Chapter 13: Dirty Laundry: the Toxic Heritage of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana; Case Study 5: When Cleaning up the Battlefields from Time of War has Polluted Soils in Time of Peace: A Silent but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great War; Chapter 14: Toxic City: Industrial Residues, the Body and Community Activism as Heritage Practice in Glasgow; Case Study 6: Rubber as (toxic) heritage: the Amazonian rubber case; Case Study 7: Three memory frameworks on Chernobyl; Chapter 15: The Toxic Anthracite: Toxic Heritage. Section 5: Introduction - Section 5 "Approaches and Interventions": Chapter 16: Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity and Activism; Visual Essay 3: Getting the Lead Out, One Community at a Time; Case Study 8: Climate Museum UK: Practices in Response to the Traumasphere; Chapter 17: Toxic Heritage and Reparations: Activating Memory for Climate Justice; Case Study 9: Case Study: From Leftovers To Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst the System’s Remnants; Visual Essay 4: Taking care of nuclear waste; Chapter 18: Toxic and Wasted: Artists Thinking About How to Engage With Material Futures; Conclusion: Why Toxic Heritage Matters.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Institutional Change for Museums
Book SynopsisInstitutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces demonstrates how museums can enact institutional change by implementing systematic and structural approaches to anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-elitist practices.This practical guide brings together museum and heritage experts, artists, organizers, and cultural workers to present thoughtful, polyvocal critiques and solutions for conceptualizing museums of the future. These authors embrace hybrid identities, complicate concepts of nationalism, straddle disciplines, and extend the concept, function, and literal place and definition of the museum. The book shows that museums must cultivate practices that center people, interrogate colonial legacies, take new approaches to curatorial ethics and caring for objects, and imagine new strategies for asserting the relevance of museums, to create institutional change. This resource challenges traditional approaches to museology by offerin
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Taylor & Francis Museum Configurations
Book SynopsisMuseum Configurations demonstrates how museum space functions cognitively and communicatively and questions whether it can be designed to provide a rich embodied experience, situating displays and their public in felicitous dialogue.Including contributions from authors working in the disciplines of architecture, psychology, museum studies, history and the visual arts, this volume addresses an interdisciplinary audience. The analysis of a wealth of examples shows how the voices of architects, curators and exhibition designers enter into dialogue and invite visitors to make their own connections between physical, cognitive and affective space. Considering how the layout of museums facilitates movement and orientation so that visitors may devote their attention to displays, the book questions what kinds of visual attention characterizes museum experiences and how the design of museum space can support them. In the context of an often dematerialized, atomized, and dissipatTable of Contents1. Museums as spatial configurations; 2. The dialectic of the enlightenment museum: Edifice, edification, and dissolution; 3. Movement, visibility, and the states of museum experience; 4. Intelligibility and the structures of freedom; 5. A stimulating museum space: ‘Glancing away’ and engaging working memory in-between exhibits; 6. Narrative, dramaturgy and spatial choreography: movement and subjectivity in museum configurations; 7. Spacing collections. Space syntax and a museum yet to come; 8. Navigating museum space: Mapping, syntax, and metaphor; 9. Designing the syntax of museum space in the studio; 10. Postscript: What more can museum architecture do?.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural
Book SynopsisLeadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations: A Practical Guide is the first book to provide guidance on how to lead cultural organisations that are inclusive, diverse and sustainable, and responsive to the public, their communities, their own staff and to popular movements.The bookâs seven parts cover the qualities and skills a leader needs, and practical advice on how to develop an organisation that is sustainable, inclusive and diverse. It covers the role of the governing body, how to create an organisation that is constantly learning and adapting, how to deal with political, public and financial pressures, and what external sources of support they can call on. Each chapter is devoted to a specific issue that might be encountered on the leadership journey and is extensively cross-referenced to other relevant chapters.Including a list of helpful suggestions of useful and practical publications for further reading, Leadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations is a unique guide to cultural leadership. This book is an essential resource for all cultural practitioners with a leadership role within an organisation or aspiring to such a role. It will also be instructive to students of cultural heritage management.
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Taylor & Francis The Museum Environment Revisited
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Heritage Tourism Leadership
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Taylor & Francis Contested Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Museums in a Digital Culture
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