Bücher der Reihe Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Bringing together the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections, this volume examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.

A compilation of significant articles addressing the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences, focusing specifically on educational groups.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

An introduction to the key issues, controversies and debates which exist in museum management. This book considers subject areas such as strategic management, HRM and marketing.

Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums.

This volume provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care including conservation practice, the monitoring of control of light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollution, biological infestation and disaster planning.

This edited volume gives evidence of the variety of views that exist about museums, and considers museum provision and professionalism in all their forms.

Drawing together articles on theoretical and practice-based developments in the field, this book investigates the linked areas of management and marketing in the museum. The articles deal with the museum context of management and how marketing and management practices must take account of the specifics of the museum and the not-for-profit ethos.

Contains articles selected from across the breadth of museum disciplines, which are linked by a logical narrative. This work seeks to introduce classic pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. It is intended for students and museum practitioners involved in the field of material culture in museums.

Explores the developments, functions and meanings that are associated with museums' use of new technologies.

Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully-chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives.