Routledge Research in Museum Studies
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest research from right across the field of museum studies. It is not confined to any particular area, or school of thought, and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world.
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Youth Programs in Art Museums: An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Maxson, Susan McCullough, Ai Wee Seow
November 21, 2025
Youth Programs in Art Museums examines the processes and motivation behind the creation of thoughtful offerings for youth audiences by museums around the world. With over 50 contributors representing 20 countries, the book considers how museums can be relevant to youth audiences through the ...
Latin American Art at The Museum of Modern Art: The Power of the Canon
1st Edition
By Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide
June 12, 2025
This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term “Latin American art” in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays. In examining the shifting ...
The Museum Movement: Carnegie Cultural Philanthropy and Museum Development in the Anglosphere, 1920-1940
1st Edition
By Ian McShane
March 04, 2025
The Museum Movement provides the first systematic overview of the ‘museum movement’ of the early twentieth century, which encouraged museums to play a greater role in education and civic uplift. Highlighting the key role played by the Carnegie Corporation in guiding museum development in the late ...
Participation and the Post-Museum
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Jagodzińska
February 26, 2025
Participation and the Post-Museum discusses the concept of participation in museum practice, as well as ideas that constitute the paradigm of the post-museum. Based on extensive empirical research conducted in thirty diverse Polish museums and drawing upon her own museum practice, the author ...
The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography
1st Edition
By Mark Thurner
February 19, 2025
The Museum of Babel: Meditations on the Metahistorical Turn in Museography is a thought‑provoking, transatlantic reading of contemporary exhibits of the museum’s own past. Museums everywhere now exhibit ‘evocations’ of their own pasts, often in the form of refashioned, ancestral cabinets of ...
Museums and Technologies of Presence
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Shehade, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
December 18, 2024
In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence and as vehicles for offering new, immersive, and embodied visitor experiences. This edited ...
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums: An Anthropology of Donations
1st Edition
By Paul van der Grijp
December 06, 2024
Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be. Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, this book is concerned ...
Museums, Identity and Family Practices
1st Edition
By Theano Moussouri
October 07, 2024
Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to understanding the role museums play in family social life. Drawing on a substantial amount of data from a wide range of sources, Moussouri discusses...
The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums: Useful Heritage in the British Isles, Iceland, and Norway
1st Edition
By Guðrún D. Whitehead
August 12, 2024
The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway. Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of ...
Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice
1st Edition
By Jennifer Carter
May 27, 2024
Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum. Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human ...
Museum Exhibitions and Suspense: The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice
1st Edition
By Ariane Karbe
May 27, 2024
Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating. Despite all genuine efforts to reach broader audiences, museums persistently fear riskingtheir credibility by becoming ‘too popular’. Thus, the enormous potential to learn ...
The Changing Museum: A History of New Walk Museum
1st Edition
By Clive Gray
May 27, 2024
Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons for change in museums are examined and explained. The 170 years history of New Walk provides an original basis and innovative approach to be adopted towards explaining museum change. ...