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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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. ...
Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality
1st Edition
By Jen A. Walklate
May 27, 2024
Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality. It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums have hitherto been understood as temporal in the scholarship - as ...
Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value
1st Edition
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By Howard Morphy, Robyn McKenzie
September 25, 2023
Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes. Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding ...
Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines
1st Edition
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By Lizzie Muller, Caroline Seck Langill
May 31, 2023
Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organising and sharing knowledge. Bringing ...
Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites
1st Edition
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By Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
May 31, 2023
Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites demonstrates that museums and historic spaces are increasingly becoming "backdrops" for all sorts of appropriations and interventions that throw new light upon the objects they comprise and the pasts they reference. Rooted in new scholarship ...
Theorizing Equity in the Museum: Integrating Perspectives from Research and Practice
1st Edition
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By Bronwyn Bevan, Bahia Ramos
May 31, 2023
Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more inclusive practices. Written during a time ...
Museums, International Exhibitions and China's Cultural Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Da Kong
January 09, 2023
Museums, International Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Diplomacy examines the role museums and, more specifically, international exhibitions, have played in shaping China’s international image to date. Drawing on theories and methods from museum studies and international relations, the book ...
Museums, Refugees and Communities
1st Edition
By Domenico Sergi
January 09, 2023
Museums, Refugees and Communities explores the ways in which museums in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK have responded to the complexities and ethical dilemmas involved in discussing the reasons for, and issues surrounding, contemporary refugee displacements. Building upon an ethnographic study...
Museums, Modernity and Conflict: Museums and Collections in and of War since the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
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By Kate Hill
May 30, 2022
Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded to and been shaped by war and conflicts of various sorts. Written by a mixture of museum professionals and academics and ranging across Europe, North ...
Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum
1st Edition
By Katy Bunning
May 30, 2022
Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum traces the evolution of pervasive racial ideas, and ‘post-race’ allusions, over more than a century of museum thinking and practice. Drawing on the illuminating history of the Smithsonian Institution, this book offers an account of how museums have ...
Art in Science Museums: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach
1st Edition
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By Camilla Rossi-Linnemann, Giulia de Martini
August 02, 2021
Art in Science Museums brings together perspectives from different practitioners to reflect on the status and meaning of art programmes in science centres and museums around the world.Presenting a balanced mix of theoretical perspectives, practitioners’ reflections, and case-studies, this volume ...
Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
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By Margaret J.-M. Sönmez, Maia Wellington Gahtan, Nadia Cannata
August 02, 2021
Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role intangible heritage can and should play in the museum...