Browsing by Subject "Museum exhibits"
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    The international handbooks of museum studies v.2 : Museum Practice
    (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015) McCarthy, Conal, editor
    Museum Practice covers the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of all types, including the core functions of management, collections, exhibitions, and programs. Some forms of museum practice are familiar to visitors, yet within these diverse and complex institutions many practices are hidden from view, such as creating marketing campaigns, curating and designing exhibitions, developing fundraising and sponsorship plans, crafting mission statements, handling repatriation claims, dealing with digital media, and more. Focused on what actually occurs in everyday museum work, this volume offers contributions from experienced professionals and academics that cover a wide range of subjects including policy frameworks, ethical guidelines, approaches to conservation, collection care and management, exhibition development and public programs. From internal processes such as leadership, governance and strategic planning, to public facing roles in interpretation, visitor research and community engagement and learning, each essential component of contemporary museum practice is thoroughly discussed.
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    Learning from museums : visitor experiences and the making of meaning
    (AltaMira Press, 2000) Falk, John H. ; Dierking, Lynn D.
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    Masterworks of the Kyoto National Museum : Temple and Shrine Treasures
    (The Kyoto National Museum, 2016) The Kyoto National Museum
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    Mobile museums : collections in circulation
    (UCL Press, 2022-02-02) Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt, Caroline Cornish
    This book presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. Bringing together international researchers from a wide variety of disciplines (including the history of science, museum anthropology, archaeology, geography and postcolonial history) to consider the mobility of collections, we aim to provide an overview of some urgent themes in the study of museums and collections. From the first chapter to the last, the book seeks to nove between questions of theory and practice, and so our cont include museum curators working with a variety of collections in the UK, Australia, the United States and Austria. The 13 essays that follow combine historical perspectives on the circulation of museum objects in the past with contemporary accounts of their re-mobilisation, most notably in the context of Indigenous community engagement. The authors seek to explore processes of circulation historically in order to re-examine, inform and unsettle common assumptions about the way museum collections have evolved over time and through space.
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    Museum Experience Design
    (Springer International Publishing, 2018) Arnold Vermeeren ; Licia Calvi ; Amalia Sabiescu
    Explores the implications of contemporary trends that are shaping the future of museum experience design Unravels theoretically as well as through example design cases the complexity of designing for museums as part of ecosystems Discusses and illustrates the impacts of novel technologies on museum experience design Illustrates and reflects on dealing with diverse audiences and online crowds in designing engaging museum experiences
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    Museum mannequins : a guide for creating the perfect fit
    (Alberta Regional Group of Conservators, 2002) Brunn, Margot, editor ; White, Joanne, editor
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    Museum space : where architecture meets museology
    (Ashgate, 2015) Tzortzi, Kali
    Museums are among the iconic buildings of the twenty-first century, as remarkable for their architectural diversity as for the variety of collections they display. But how does the architecture of museums affect our experience as visitors? This book proposes that by seeing space as common ground between architecture and museology, and so between the museum building and its display, we can illuminate the individuality of each museum and the distinctive experience it offers--for example, how some museums create a sense of personal exploration, while others are more intensely didactic, and how the visit in some cases is transformed into a spatial experience and in other cases into a more social event. The book starts with an overview of the history of museum buildings and display strategies, and a discussion of theoretical and critical approaches. It then focuses on specific museums as in-depth case studies, and uses methods of spatial analysis to look at the key design choices available to architects and curators, and their effects on visitors' behaviour. Theoretically grounded, methodologically original, and richly illustrated, this book will equip students, researchers and professionals in the fields of architecture, museum studies, curating, exhibition design, and cultural studies, with a guide for studying museums and a theoretical framework for their interpretation. [Provided by publisher]
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    Museum Theory
    (Wiley Blackwell, 2020) Andrea Witcomb ; Kylie Message
    Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums work, are understood, and are experienced. Organized around three themes--Thinking about Museums, Disciplines and Politics, and Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory--the text includes discussion and analysis of different kinds of museums from various, primarily contemporary, national and local contexts. Essays consider subjects including the nature of museums as institutions and their role in the public sphere, cutting-edge museum practice and their connections with current global concerns, and the links between museum studies and disciplines such as cultural studies, anthropology, and history.
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    Re-presenting disability : activism and agency in the museum
    (Routledge, 2010) Sandell, Richard, editor ; Dodd, Jocelyn, editor ; Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, editor