A range of meaningful objectsexhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersdemonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life. The Sp...Loe edasi...
This book explores the concept of dissent within the realm of art and cultural heritage through a rich and multidisciplinary lens. It investigates how dissent shapes the very definition of cultural heritage and the systems that govern cultural herit...Loe edasi...
The notion of intangible heritage as a key urban element is underexplored, yet inherently intertwined with urban life that can influence and be influenced by urban policies and practices. This book undertakes the fundamentally interdisciplinary task...Loe edasi...
This volume is designed as a handbook for interpreting luminescence data and reviews applications in conservation that require robust and accurate methods for molecular analysis and material mapping. Molecular fluorescence and phosphorescence spectr...Loe edasi...
Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity, and on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)coloni...Loe edasi...
This book explores how migration has shaped cities over time and continues to influence their architecture and urban landscapes today. It examines how people’s movement across borders connects with buildings, urban life, and cultural heritage. Bri...Loe edasi...
Today, tourism offers a privileged perspective to explore the relationships between sustainability, innovation, and inclusion. This volume, Tourism, Sustainability and Innovation: Low-Tech Roots and High-Tech Horizons (part of the World Sustainabili...Loe edasi...
This book introduces readers to ancient Chinese communications with other ethnic communities that lived west of Dunhuang along the ancient Silk Road. These ethnic groups included the Yuezhi and the Xiongnu (Huns), the Sogdians, the Tubo (Tibetans),...Loe edasi...
This book connects a diverse array of studies exploring the interpretation, preservation, and revitalization of cultural heritage across historical, architectural, and community dimensions. Organized into five thematic sections, this book examines h...Loe edasi...
This book bridges the gap between museum professionals and game designers, providing strategies for creating engaging digital, analog, or digital/physical games for museums. Through a series of examples, templates and activities, readers of this b...Loe edasi...
This book bridges the gap between museum professionals and game designers, providing strategies for creating engaging digital, analog, or digital/physical games for museums. Through a series of examples, templates and activities, readers of this b...Loe edasi...
The Interpretive Theme Writers Field Guide builds on Sam Hams 30-year thematic interpretation research legacy by offering writers strong theme examples, worksheets, exercises, inspirational quotes, andtechniquehighlights....Loe edasi...
The Interpretive Theme Writers Field Guide builds on Sam Hams 30-year thematic interpretation research legacy by offering writers strong theme examples, worksheets, exercises, inspirational quotes, andtechniquehighlights....Loe edasi...
This book provides both in-depth theoretical discussions and practical, step-by-step approaches to creating virtual exhibitions in museums....Loe edasi...
This book provides both in-depth theoretical discussions and practical, step-by-step approaches to creating virtual exhibitions in museums....Loe edasi...
Alma S. Wittlin (1899-1991) was an innovative museologist and educational researcher. She focused on harnessing the specific potentials of museums and exhibitions for social development and, in turn, challenged the field in an egalitarian and anti-he...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526177391)
This book examines John Hilditch (1872-1930), a notorious collector of Chinese art who lied, hoaxed and manipulated in his struggle against museum experts to become a cultural authority. Previously overlooked as a pest with a dubious collection, this...Loe edasi...
Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America....Loe edasi...
Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America....Loe edasi...
This book presents emerging research on methods and approaches for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, with a particular focus on its relevance to design and the arts. Drawing on case studies from countries such as India, Portugal, Brazil, Au...Loe edasi...
This book explores interlinkages between heritage and human rights and emphasizes that the connections are not just theoretical: Its chapters examine relevant laws, institutions, and actions that reflect both established and emerging trends in the f...Loe edasi...
A gorgeous illustrated meditation on the homes of iconic Southern women, from Nina Simone to Carson McCullersIn These Long Shadows, writer Monica Nelson excavates the domestic narratives and mythologies contained within the pu...Loe edasi...
A compelling, arresting (New Scientist) behind-the-scenes tour through the worlds greatest natural history museums, revealing their hidden secrets Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britains natural history mus...Loe edasi...
The Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries hosts a spectacular collection from Albertus Paulus Hermanus Hotz (1855-1930), a Dutch businessman who traded with Persia between 1874 and 1903 via his company in Rotterdam. Throughout his trave...Loe edasi...
In the current age of automation, there is a growing opportunity to connect design and manufacturing into a single workflow that harnesses industrial tools such as robots and brings their efficiencies to vulnerable building sites within the conserva...Loe edasi...
In the current age of automation, there is a growing opportunity to connect design and manufacturing into a single workflow that harnesses industrial tools such as robots and brings their efficiencies to vulnerable building sites within the conser...Loe edasi...
This provocative book bridges the gap between theoretical academic writings and practical museum curating, tracing the journey from 19th-century moralist art museums to todays 21- st century inclusive civic art museums via a sustained critique of...Loe edasi...
This volume offers an innovative perspective on the challenges and potentials in the fields of cultural heritage, digitalization, innovative materials, building envelope, comfort, and design. It collects peer-reviewed contributions by young research...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035307029)
In this innovative book, Deepak Chhabra adopts an alternative approach to heritage tourism, demonstrating its potential to stimulate and sustain wellbeing and ecological resources. Through ethical and eudaimonic lenses, Chhabra proposes a new multi-d...Loe edasi...
Unseen Scars: Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums, Exhibitions, and Memorial Sites is a practical guide for those who teach, create meaning, or bring visitors to Holocaust museums and historical sites. It provides a comprehensive overview...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the pedagogical and psychological issues and challenges encountered in Holocaust museums and difficult exhibition spaces. Unseen Scars: Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums, Exhibitions, a...Loe edasi...
This multi-disciplinary volume offers a variety of examples and guidance on how to design, develop, and implement successful experiences, learning programs, frameworks, and approaches to empathy-buildingin museums and other informal learning p...Loe edasi...
This multi-disciplinary volume offers a variety of examples and guidance on how to design, develop, and implement successful experiences, learning programs, frameworks, and approaches to empathy-buildingin museums and other informal learning p...Loe edasi...
Most of South Asia’s tourism is based upon the region’s pervasive religious heritage. This book provides a descriptive and conceptual examination of religious heritage in South Asia and how this tangible and intangible heritage is utilized as one...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282719)
An examination of how immersive colonial revival projects contributed to the formation of a White nationalist identity by inviting viewers to step into the past From 1930 to 1950, a number of design projects in the United States appe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9798217089437)
The intimate, inspiring memoir of a “curator extraordinaire” (The Guardian)—part unputdownable coming-of-age story, part insider’s tour of the contemporary art world, part user’s manual on how to live a life driven by curiosity, conversatio...Loe edasi...
Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and arts/heritage management. Previous editions explored how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce s...Loe edasi...
Cultural tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and arts/heritage management. Previous editions explored how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce s...Loe edasi...
Russian soldiers did not go to war with only guns and ordersthey went with fantasies that made killing feel meaningful. Drawing on diaries, social media posts, memoirs, poems, and battlefield songs, Maria Kurbak reconstructs the war from below. She...Loe edasi...
Sari: Juridicum Bochumer Schriften zur Friedenssicherung und zum Humanitären Völkerrecht I Bochum Studies on the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict
This book asks, if and how international human rights law can offer a legal basis for the protection of cultural heritage. Against the backdrop of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights General Comment No. 21 in 2009 and the 2011 them...Loe edasi...
This book moves beyond the stereotyped approaches adopted in earlier works on Chinatowns and introduces instead the Chinese spaces in the metropolitan city of Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia. Seeing beyond the Chinatown, this book puts forward the histo...Loe edasi...
