Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
About the Book Series
Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions is a new series focusing on museums, collecting, and exhibitions from an art historical perspective. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.
Towards an Inclusive Museology in Material Culture Museums: Conceptual Art as a Method
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Jecu
June 26, 2026
This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections. It begins by examining the influence of conceptual art within art museums and the transformative impact it has had on museology. Specifically, it highlights how conceptual ...
Soviet Museums Between the Two World Wars: Art History on Display
1st Edition
By Maria Silina
May 29, 2026
Examining the history of Soviet museums in the 1920s and 1930s, this book engages with the core problem of interwar museology: adequately representing the historical development of art to create a plausible and coherent version of its evolution. The book critically analyzes the evolution of ...
Post-1945 Art Collections and Regional Research Networks: Collaborative Art History
1st Edition
By Sophie Hatchwell, Hana Leaper
February 20, 2026
Taking a consciously regional perspective, this volume evaluates the mechanisms and motivations that underpin collaborations between higher education and public art galleries in the Midlands and Northwest of England. Presenting a series of case studies of collaborative projects undertaken by the ...
A History of South Africa at the Venice Biennale: The politics of looking South African
1st Edition
By Annchen Bronkowski
November 21, 2025
This study presents the first history of the South African national pavilion at the Venice Biennale since it first participated in 1950 up until its contemporary pavilions. Covering a contentious period in South African history, the pavilion engenders a thought-provoking engagement with questions ...
The Rise of the Therapeutic Museum: Decolonization and the Crisis of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Janet Kraynak
September 30, 2025
This book considers how and why respite rooms, emotional support brochures, well-being guides, psychological consultants, and care days are becoming common features in the museum of art. Kraynak poses and answers this question, arguing that under its rightful ambition to decolonize––i.e., to ...
Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art
1st Edition
By Roann Barris
January 30, 2025
This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War. Because this history reflects changes in museological theory and the role of governments in facilitating or preventing intercultural cooperation, it uncovers a story that ...
Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design
1st Edition
By Antje Gamble
December 18, 2024
Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950–53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII). Moving beyond previous studies...
A History of Aboriginal Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
1st Edition
By Vanessa Russ
October 07, 2024
In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This process occurred as the social histories of Australia expanded and recognised Aboriginal people, through wars and political shifts, and as international ...
Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Natasha Adamou, Michaela Giebelhausen
October 07, 2024
Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; collectivities and trade unions in Argentina; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; institutional self-critique within the neoliberal museum...
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
1st Edition
Edited
By Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg
October 04, 2024
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions...
Curating with Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Elke Krasny, Lara Perry
October 04, 2024
This book presents over 20 authors’ reflections on ‘curating care’ – and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more ‘caring curating’ that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving. Social and ecological ...
Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire: Museums of Design, Industry and the Applied Arts
1st Edition
By Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, Nóra Veszprémi
June 24, 2024
Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire is a study of museums of design and applied arts in Austria-Hungary from 1864 to 1914. The Museum for Art and Industry (now the Museum of Applied Arts) as well as its design school occupies a prominent place in the study. The book ...