Routledge Guides to Practice in Museums, Galleries and Heritage
About the Book Series
This series provides essential practical guides for those working in museums, galleries, and a variety of other heritage professions around the globe.
Including authored and edited volumes, the series will help to enhance practitioners' and students' professional knowledge and will also encourage sharing of best practices between different countries, as well as between different types and sizes of organisations.
To submit proposals, please contact the Routledge Editor, Heidi Lowther ([email protected])
Collecting Social Media in Museums: Collecting Social Media in Museums
1st Edition
By Craig Middleton, Caroline Wilson-Barnao
December 08, 2025
Collecting Social Media in Museums draws attention to the importance of collecting social media as museum objects and explores the role of rapid response and born-digital collecting in documenting social history as it happens. Drawing on a range of case studies and facilitated conversations with ...
Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums: Immersion, Emotion, Narrative, and Gameplay
1st Edition
By Ed Rodley
June 13, 2025
Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums is filled with creative fodder for practitioners who wish to make more memorable and engaging experiences that promote a sense of presence, effectively evoke emotions, tell stories that transport them, and harness visitors’ innate playfulness. Providing ...
Leadership of Inclusive and Sustainable Cultural Organisations: A Practical Guide
1st Edition
By Piotr Bienkowski, Hilary McGowan
November 29, 2024
Leadership 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 ...
Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristin Alford
October 21, 2024
Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable futures. Presenting 21 examples that ...
Ethics of Contemporary Collecting
1st Edition
Edited
By Jen Kavanagh, Ellie Miles, Rosamund Lily West, Susanna Cordner
October 09, 2024
Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux. Across three sections, each containing live sector subjects from the climate crisis to digital collecting to centring communities, ...
Institutional Change for Museums: A Practical Guide to Creating Polyvocal Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianna Pegno, Kantara Souffrant
August 14, 2024
Institutional 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 ...
An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums
1st Edition
By Ann Rowson Love, Deborah Randolph
February 20, 2024
An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums is a practice-based guide that is designed to introduce qualitative research to established and upcoming museum professionals and increase their confidence to conduct this type of research. Highlighting the work of researchers who are ...
Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By Joanne Orr
December 22, 2023
Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field. Summarising the major changes that have taken place over the last two decades, the book explores ongoing debates and changes in thinking about best practice. ...
Fundraising Management in a Changing Museum World
1st Edition
By Kate Brueggemann, Donna McGinnis
December 06, 2023
Fundraising Management in a Changing Museum World explains how cultural organizations can successfully create sustainable fundraising programs that will increase financial support and stabilize revenue during times of change. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience, this book provides guidance...
Marketing Strategy for Museums: A Practical Guide
1st Edition
By Christina Lister
December 06, 2023
Marketing Strategy for Museums is a practical guide to developing and delivering marketing that supports museums’ missions and goals. Explaining how museums can be strategic and proactive in their approach, it also shows how to make effective decisions with limited resources. Presenting examples ...
Viewing Art with Babies: First Encounters
1st Edition
By Kathy Danko-McGhee
June 06, 2023
Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as 2 months old. Such experiences can help to nurture early literacy and receptive language skills, sensory stimulation, and early brain development. Based on the author’s research with ...
A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation
1st Edition
By Jackie Lee
February 02, 2023
A Practical Guide to Costumed Interpretation is just that – a book that takes you through the various stages of becoming an historical costumed interpreter. Jackie Lee has worked in this area of heritage interpretation for over twenty years and sets out what it takes to develop the persona for a ...