Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
Museum Basics: The International Handbook
5th Edition
By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine
July 16, 2025
Museum Basics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to professional practice in museums, galleries and related heritage organisations. This new edition includes a number of international case studies from a diverse group of guest authors who work in a variety of museums around the ...
Architecture in Conservation: Managing Development at Historic Sites
1st Edition
By James Strike
May 10, 2013
One of the problems faced by heritage organizations and museums is adapting old buildings to their needs or building new ones to fit in with historic sites. How exactly do you create a visitor's centre at Stonehenge? The real difficulty lies where the budget is minimal, and the potential damage to ...
Managing Quality Cultural Tourism
1st Edition
By Priscilla Boniface
December 05, 2012
Managing Quality Cultural Tourism is an authoritative look at how to manage cultural tourist sites to best meet the needs of the visitors, the presenters and the site itself. As cultural tourism increases the management of heritage sites becomes more complex. Priscilla Boniface addresses these ...
Environmental Management: Guidelines for Museums and Galleries
1st Edition
By May Cassar
November 01, 2011
The key to the survival of museum collections is a stable indoor environment and vital to this is a well-maintained building with effective environmental services. Environmental Management sets out clearly the theory and practice of achieving an appropriate museum environment for both collections ...
Museum Volunteers: Good Practice in the Management of Volunteers
1st Edition
By Sinclair Goodlad, Stephanie McIvor
November 01, 2011
Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism.This book:* reviews research on the changing priorities of museums* ...
Museums and Their Visitors
1st Edition
By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
November 01, 2011
Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and...
Towards the Museum of the Future: New European Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Miles, Lauro Zavala
November 01, 2011
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 ...
The Engaging Museum: Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement
1st Edition
By Graham Black
July 13, 2005
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 ...
Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era
1st Edition
By Moira G. Simpson
July 18, 2001
Responses to controversial exhibitions in recent years have demonstrated the dissatisfaction felt by many indigenous peoples and ethnic groups at the ways in which the western museum traditionally represented their cultures and excluded them from the process of interpretation and display. Native ...
Hands-On Exhibitions: Managing Interactive Museums and Science Centres
1st Edition
By Tim Caulton
March 16, 1998
The development of interactive displays has transformed the traditional museum world in the last decade. Visitors are no longer satisfied by simply gazing at worthy displays in glass cases - they expect to have hands-on experience of the objects and be actively involved with the exhibits, learning ...
The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Macdonald
January 22, 1998
The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and ...
Museum Ethics: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Edson
June 02, 1997
A number of developments in the museum movement during the last few years have forced museums to give greater attention to ethical issues. Members of a profession are increasingly regarded constituting an ethical community. Every person with such a community must have a sense of personal obligation...