Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases how the use of technology in museums should be understood as factors directly related to the museums' notion of community, local culture, and place, whether these places are in mid-America, urban metropolises, or ethnically diverse and underserved communities.
Unknown Museums of Upstate New York is an informative and entertaining guide to the rich resources available at fifty small, often overlooked, regional museums.
Management and dissemination of the Intellectual Property (IP) assets maintained by cultural institutions is a key responsibility of caring for collections.
Focused on multiple-scenario planning method, Museum Resilience gets to the "e;how"e; for expanding inclusivity and decolonization efforts, as well as adapting in a time of visitation and financial challenges.
Focused on multiple-scenario planning method, Museum Resilience gets to the "e;how"e; for expanding inclusivity and decolonization efforts, as well as adapting in a time of visitation and financial challenges.
In the quiet halls of the natural history museum, there are some creatures still alive with stories, whose personalities refuse to be relegated to the dusty corners of an exhibit.
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.
In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.
This book provides a general summary of the development of digitalization in heritage interpretation and presentation, trying to intend to understand the opportunities and challenges in planning, application, and management of on-site digital interpretation and presentation systems, and to evaluate visitors’ expectations, acceptance, and experience of digital interpretation and presentation technologies.
In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.
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.
"e;Cultural Composition"e; discusses the intrinsic relationship between culture imagery and visual expression, and for the first time proposed the concepts and methods that take culture as some design elements.
"e;Digital Preservation for Heritages: Technologies and Applications"e; provides a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of digital technologies in the area of cultural heritage preservation, including digitalization, research aiding, conservation aiding, digital exhibition, and digital utilization.
The automobile is one of the inventions that have made a decisive contribution to human mobility, and consequently it has become an inseparable part of modern human society.
This book provides a general summary of the development of digitalization in heritage interpretation and presentation, trying to intend to understand the opportunities and challenges in planning, application, and management of on-site digital interpretation and presentation systems, and to evaluate visitors’ expectations, acceptance, and experience of digital interpretation and presentation technologies.
El catálogo razonado "Museo Internacional de la Resistencia Salvador Allende MIRSA, 1975-1990", es resultado de un proyecto de investigación de tres años que contó con el apoyo del Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes del CNCA.
A 'compelling, arresting' (New Scientist) behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing their hidden secrets Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums, and in Nature's Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses.
The effects of vibrations and shock on valuable cultural heritage objects are a major concern for conservators, collection managers, and heritage professionals.
The effects of vibrations and shock on valuable cultural heritage objects are a major concern for conservators, collection managers, and heritage professionals.
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.
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.
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 field.
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 field.
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)colonial relationships, and extractivism.
This book explores the role of heritage in contemporary British visual culture through an analysis of a selection of British factual television series.
This book explores the role of heritage in contemporary British visual culture through an analysis of a selection of British factual television series.
Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Sacred Places in the Arctic and Beyond brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars, rightsholders, and practitioners to explore the status and management of sacred places, which are important as both tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
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)colonial relationships, and extractivism.
This provocative book bridges the gap between theoretical academic writings and practical museum curating, tracing the journey from 19th-century moralist art museums to today's 21st-century inclusive civic art museums via a sustained critique of the 20th-century formalist and heteronormative white cube model of curating in art museums.
This book features methodological and theoretical perspectives that embody fundamental questions concerning the historical paradigm of Atlantic Studies and beyond to explore, cultural theory, visual culture, literature, and the narratives and iconography of popular culture (among others).
This book features methodological and theoretical perspectives that embody fundamental questions concerning the historical paradigm of Atlantic Studies and beyond to explore, cultural theory, visual culture, literature, and the narratives and iconography of popular culture (among others).
A close look at New England heritage sites and the narratives they tell about Native American communitiesExploring museums and cultural centers in New England that hold important meanings for Native American communities today, this illuminating book offers a much-needed critique of collaborative efforts to preserve and promote the cultural heritage of the region.
This provocative book bridges the gap between theoretical academic writings and practical museum curating, tracing the journey from 19th-century moralist art museums to today's 21st-century inclusive civic art museums via a sustained critique of the 20th-century formalist and heteronormative white cube model of curating in art museums.
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.
Das Werk des Formgestalters Karl Clauss Dietel nimmt innerhalb der Designforschung eine besondere Stellung ein, da es ein konsistentes Verständnis nachhaltiger, modularer und nutzer:innenorientierter Gestaltung formuliert, das weit über seinen Entstehungskontext hinausweist.
Das Werk des Formgestalters Karl Clauss Dietel nimmt innerhalb der Designforschung eine besondere Stellung ein, da es ein konsistentes Verständnis nachhaltiger, modularer und nutzer:innenorientierter Gestaltung formuliert, das weit über seinen Entstehungskontext hinausweist.
This book analyses archaeological excavations and the use of antiquities in the eastern Mediterranean from a unique and original perspective, that of power relations built on the vestiges of the past.
