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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Museums and Photography: Displaying Death
1st Edition
By Elena Stylianou, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
June 07, 2019
Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museums—history, anthropology, art, ethnographic, and science museums – and to understand the changing role of photography in museums. ...
Representing the Nation: Heritage, Museums, National Narratives, and Identity in the Arab Gulf States
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Al-Mulla, Victoria Hightower
June 07, 2019
The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of ‘national museums’, institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of ...
Introducing Peace Museums
1st Edition
By Joyce Apsel
December 22, 2017
Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied world-wide in recent decades. They relate stories and display artifacts—banners, diaries, and...
Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum
1st Edition
By Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder
December 18, 2017
Visitor engagement and learning, outreach, and inclusion are concepts that have long dominated professional museum discourses. The recent rapid uptake of various forms of social media in many parts of the world, however, calls for a reformulation of familiar opportunities and obstacles in ...
Climate Change and Museum Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Cameron, Brett Neilson
December 15, 2017
Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature. Climate change is a global force, with global impacts. Viable solutions on what to do must involve dialogues and decision-making with many agencies, stakeholder ...
Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display
1st Edition
Edited
By Catharine Coleborne, Dolly MacKinnon
December 15, 2017
While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada ...
Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice: Decolonizing Engagement
1st Edition
By Bryony Onciul
December 15, 2017
Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum ...
Doing Museology Differently
1st Edition
By Duncan Grewcock
November 10, 2016
One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry ...
Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience
1st Edition
By Tiina Roppola
November 10, 2014
Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure ...
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority
1st Edition
By Tiffany Jenkins
May 30, 2014
Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique ...
Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Juliette Fritsch
May 30, 2014
Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation ...
Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements
1st Edition
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By Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson
May 30, 2014
The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an ...