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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Connecting Museums
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark O'Neill, Glenn Hooper
June 30, 2021
Connecting Museums explores the boundaries of museums and how external relationships are affected by internal commitments, structures and traditions. Focusing on museums’ relationship with heath, inclusion, and community, the book provides a detailed assessment of the alliances between museums and ...
Museum Objects, Health and Healing: The Relationship between Exhibitions and Wellness
1st Edition
By Brenda Cowan, Ross Laird, Jason McKeown
June 30, 2021
Museum Objects, Health and Healing provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and healing. Shedding light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with objects, the book explores what kind of implications these relationships might have ...
Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey
1st Edition
By Gönül Bozoğlu
June 30, 2021
Museums, Emotion, and Memory Culture examines the politics of emotion in history museums, combining approaches and concerns from museum, heritage and memory studies, anthropology and studies of emotion. Exploring the meanings and politics of memory contests in Turkey, a site for complex ...
Academics, Artists, and Museums: 21st-Century Partnerships
1st Edition
Edited
By Irina D. Costache, Clare Kunny
March 31, 2021
Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice in the museum are on the rise. Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnerships between the museum and higher education sectors, with a focus on art museums and exhibits. The edited volume offers detailed analysis of how ...
Exhibitions as Research: Experimental Methods in Museums
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Bjerregaard
March 31, 2021
Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as knowledge-in-the-making rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights. Analysing the theoretical underpinnings and practical challenges of ...
Museum and Gallery Publishing: From Theory to Case Study
1st Edition
By Sarah Hughes
March 31, 2021
Museum and Gallery Publishing examines the theory and practice of general and scholarly publishing associated with museum and art gallery collections. Focusing on the production and reception of these texts, the book explains the relevance of publishing to the cultural, commercial and social ...
Museums and Centers of Contemporary Art in Central Europe after 1989
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Jagodzińska
March 31, 2021
Museums and Centers of Contemporary Art in Central Europe is a comprehensive study of the ecosystem of art museums and centers in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Focusing on institutions founded after 1989, the book analyses a thirty-year boom in art exhibition space in these ...
Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums: American Interpretations of the Great Depression
1st Edition
By Meighen Katz
March 31, 2021
Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums is a study of the challenges museums face when they present narratives of instability, uncertainty, and fear in their exhibitions. As a period of sustained societal and personal vulnerability, the Great Depression remains a watershed era in American history. ...
Snapshots of Museum Experience: Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography
1st Edition
By Elee Kirk, Will Buckingham
March 31, 2021
Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws upon Elee Kirk’s research amongst child visitors to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, to ...
Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum: An Ethnography of Te Papa
1st Edition
By Tanja Schubert-McArthur
December 18, 2020
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has been celebrated as an international leader for its bicultural concept and partnership with Māori in all aspects of the museum, but how does this relationship with the indigenous partner work in practice? Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum ...
Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums: Black Renaissance
1st Edition
By Patricia A. Banks
December 18, 2020
Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums is the first scholarly book to analyze contemporary African American museums from a multifaceted perspective. While it puts a spotlight on the issues and challenges related to racial politics that black museums collectively face in the 21st ...
Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A New Model for a Challenging Era
1st Edition
By Haitham Eid
December 18, 2020
Museum Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship makes a contribution towards building a museum perspective of innovation that takes into consideration the unique role of museums in society. Beginning and ending with the idea of museum innovation in a wider sense, the book takes digital innovation as ...