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    10 must reads : learning, engaging, enriching
    (MuseumsEtc, 2014)
    Learning, engagement and enrichment are at the very core of any museum's mission. This new collection shares the global experience of innovative professionals - in museums and galleries large and small - who have expanded the effectiveness and the boundaries of the museum learning process. [From back cover]
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    A History of photography in Indonesia
    (Amsterdam University Press, 2024-01-03) Brian Arnold (บรรณาธิการ).
    As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed, so too did the medium. Photography was not only an essential tool of colonialism, but it also became part of the movement for independence, a voice for reformasi, an agent for advocating democracy, and is now available to anyone with a phone. This book gathers essays by leading artists, scholars, and curators from around the world who have worked with photography in Indonesia and have traced the evolution of the medium from its inception to the present day, addressing the impact of photography on colonialism, independence, and democratization.
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    A museum in public : revisioning Canada's Royal Ontario Museum
    (Routledge, 2022-02-02) Susan L.T. Ashley.
    A Museum in Public critically examines the idea of museums as institutions of the public sphere. Using as a case study the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canada's largest museum, the book interrogates the public nature and political dynamics of the ROM as it completed a multi-million-dollar Renaissance' architectural project. Employing an empirically engaged cultural analysis of how publicness was reflected in the ideas, attitudes and behaviours of management, staff, and vis- itors, the book builds upon an ethnographic description of four public inter- faces of institutional operations: structuring, positioning, exhibiting, and interacting. Conceptualizing ROM's new nature as 'celebrity publicness': engagement as publicity and not politics, Ashley offers insights into how – and whether - museums like the ROM might achieve political publicness through transparent, open communicative action. As a whole, the book asks museum practitioners and scholars to seriously consider how the ideals of contact zone and engagement with their real need for dissent, conflict, and alternative ways of thinking – can truly be made possible within an administrative setting. A Museum in Public will be a unique resource for scholars and students around the world who are engaged with the ongoing process of democrat- ization in museums. Its on-the-ground reporting on practical organizational ISsues, offered in a shorter more accessible format, will attract and provoke museum practitioners.
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    Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums
    (Routledge, 2018) Margaret Tali
    This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence productively.
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    The Accessible museum : model programs of accessibility for disabled and older people
    (American Association of Museums, 1992) The American Association of Museums
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    Adult museum programs : designing meaningful experiences
    (AltaMira Press, 2002) Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie
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    All about Anne.
    (The Anne Frank House, 2018)
    The Anne Frank Foundation has compiled the questions asked by children and young people over several years. In this book we answer the questions asked most frequently about Anne Frank, the persecution of Jews and World War II. But you might have a few more questions too? Sometimes the answers can be found in Anne's life story sometimes in the special half pages with extra information. With about a hundred photo- graphs, as well as the beautiful illustrations created by Huck Scarry for this book, you are given an impressive picture of Anne's life, her diary and the Secret Annex. Everything about Anne - for your essay or your presentation.
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    Anne Frank
    (Hill and Wang, 2010) Sid Jacobson ; Ernie Colon
    Drawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón have created the first authorized graphic biography of Anne Frank. Their account is complete, covering the lives of Anne's parents, Edith and Otto; Anne's first years in Frankfurt, the rise of Franks' immigration to Amsterdam; war and occupation; Anne's years in the Secret Annex, betrayal and arrest her deportation and tragic death in Bergen-Belsen; the survival of Anne's father, and his recovery and publication of her astounding diary
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    Anne Frank House A Museum with a Story
    (Anne Frank House, 2015)
    This book offers an intimate portrayal of the house where Anne Frank and her family lived in hiding for two years. Detailed maps, pictures, and letters of Anne Frank enable the reader to feel as if he or she were present with her in the home.
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    The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
    (Berghahn books, 2018-07-05) Dolan, Catherine ; Rajak, Dinah
    The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion.
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    Anti-Museum
    (Routledge, 2022-02-02) Adrian Franklin
    Anti-Museum charts the development of the anti-museum as a concept and as it has been realised in practice. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the New Museum and PS1 in New York, Mona in Australia, Art42 in Paris and Donald Judd's Marfa, the book assesses their potential publics in new ways.
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    Applying For Jobs And Internships In Museum
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group London And Newyork, 2022-02-02)
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    Applying For Jobs And Internships In Museum
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group London And Newyork, 2022-02-02) Martha M. Schloetzer
    Museums Applying for Jobs and Internships in Museums offers a straightforward approach to applying for positions within a museum. Martha M. Schloetzer provides practical advice about the application and interview process that will prepare emerging museum professionals as they approach the profession. From reviewing job and internship postings to developing a solid resume and writing distinctive cover letters, this guide provides practical, sound advice for museum job seekers. Schloetzer integrates the stories of successful and unsuccessful interns and job applicants throughout the book's narrative, and recognizing the additional challenges faced by non-US nationals, the book also offers information specifically for international students seeking work experience in US museums.
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    The architecture of the museum : symbolic structures, urban contexts
    (Manchester University Press, 2003) Giebelhausen, Michaela, editor
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    Archiving Cultures
    (Routledge, 2024-01-02) Jeannette A. Bastian.
    Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstrate their relevance as records of their communities. Key features of this book include definitions of cultural heritage and archival heritage with an emphasis on intangible cultural heritage. Aspects of cultural heritage such as oral traditions, performance arts, memory texts and collective memory are placed within the context of records and archives. It presents strategies for reconciling intangible and tangible cultural expressions with traditional archival theory and practice and offers both analog and digital models for constructing cultural archives through examples and vignettes.
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    Art in quest of heaven and truth : Chinese jades through the ages
    (National Palace Museum, 2019-02-07) Teng Shu-pʻing ; Chang Li-tuan ; Tsai Ching-liang
    การจัดการแสดงนิทรรศการหยกในประเทศไต้หวัน หยกทุกชิ้นในนิทรรศการที่ถูกคัดเลือกมาแล้วว่าดีที่สุด เพื่อนำเสนอความหมาย ความงดงามทางวัฒนธรรม ภายในเล่มได้กล่าวถึงทั้งเรื่องประวัติความเป็นมา ความสำคัญ ชนิดของหยก การแกะสลักทั้งในเรื่องฝีมือของช่างและความสำคัญของงานแกะสลัก รวมถึงเรื่องอื่นๆ ของหยกที่น่าสนใจอีกมากมาย เพื่อเป็นการทำให้เห็นคุณค่าของธรรมชาติผ่านความสวยงามของหยก
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    Art of Southeast Asian Textiles
    (Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd., 2022-06-07) Linda S. McIntosh
    A scholarly catalogue of Southeast Asian textiles in the collection of the law firm Tilleke & Gibbins based in Bangkok, Thailand.
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    Artefacts, archives, and documentation in the relational museum
    (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2022) Jones, Mike
    Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of polyphonic, relational thinking on collections documentation. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the US, the book provides a critical examination of the history of collections management and documentation since the introduction of computers to museums in the 1960s, demonstrating how technology has contributed to the disconnection of distributed collections knowledge. Jones also highlights how separate documentation systems have developed, managed by distinct, increasingly professionalised staff, impacting our ability to understand and use what we find in museums and their ever-expanding online collections. Exploring this legacy allows us to rethink current practice, focusing less on individual objects and more on the rich stories and interconnected resources that lie at the heart of the contemporary, plural, participatory 'relational museum.' Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum is essential reading for those who wish to better understand the institutional silos found in museums, and the changes required to make museum knowledge more accessible. The book is a particularly important addition to the fields of museum studies, archival science, information management, and the history of cultural heritage technologies. -- Provided by publisher.
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    Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
    ( 2017) Anna Tsing ; Heather Swanson ; Elaine Gan ; Nils Bubandt
    Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent "arts of living." These essays posit critical and creative tools for survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key themes that also serve as the publication's two openings: Ghosts, or landscaped haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality.
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    As it were ... So to speak
    (Distributed for the Jewish Museum, 2018-04-27) Barbara Bloom
    The book features images of the museum’s galleries reconstructed as rooms in a fictive house—the music room, the boudoir, the analyst’s office—formed of objects from the permanent collection. These staged spaces are intertwined with fragments of text and images drawn from intellectuals, artists, and authors, both historical and contemporary. Ranging from the charming (Torah pointers tipped with tiny hands, poised above a piano keyboard; silver spice containers shaped like peaches and pears) to the poignant (an empty, worn velvet case for a shofar horn; a Nazi playing card created from a defaced Torah), each object is infused with profound significance.
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    Asian History : India, China
    (Lean Stone Publishing, 2018-07-04) Nelson, Raymond C. ; Pannell, Edward
    เอเชียเป็นทวีปที่ใหญ่ที่สุดและมีความหลากหลายมากที่สุดในโลก ด้วยภาษา วัฒนธรรม และศาสนาต่าง ๆ มากมาย มันจึงเป็นเรื่องที่ยากที่จะไม่ตกหลุมรักกับทุกสิ่งทุกอย่างที่เอเชียได้มอบให้ นอกจากนี้ประวัติความเป็นมาของเอเชียยังเต็มไปด้วยเหตุการณ์ที่น่าสนใจ ผู้คน และสถานที่ต่าง ๆ ที่ช่วยให้ทวีปกลายเป็นสิ่งที่เป็นอยู่ในปัจจุบัน หนังสือเล่มนี้ได้รวบรวมความรู้เกี่ยวกับสองประเทศที่มีอำนาจมากที่สุด ได้แก่ จีนและอินเดีย ประวัติศาสตร์ของอินเดีย: อินเดียเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นของศาสนาและประเพณีต่าง ๆ เป็นประเทศที่มีประวัติศาสตร์ที่น่าสนใจและสอนเราเกี่ยวับการความอดทน ความหลากหลาย และความสามัคคี อนุภูมิภาคลุ่มน้ำกว้างใหญ่นี้ เป็นสถานที่ที่มีการพัฒนาจักรวรรดิอันยิ่งใหญ่ สถานที่แห่งการต่อสู้ สถานที่ของผู้บุกรุกชาวต่างชาติ และสถานที่เกิดของวัฒนธรรมและศาสตร์ต่าง ๆ ประวัติศาสตร์ของจีน: เรียนรู้เกี่ยวกับผู้ปกครอง ศัตรู การเมือง และสงคราม ที่สร้างความคิดที่ทันสมัยและสร้างรากฐานของหนึ่งในประเทศที่เป็นประเทศมหาอำนาจ รวบรวมภาพรวมทางประวัติศาสตร์ของจีนและเอเชียตะวันออก รวมถึงจีนโบราณ คอมมิวนิสต์ และทุนนิยม
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    Bangkok Living Beside the River of Culture
    ( 2019-02-08) Culture, Sport and Tourism Department, BMA
    This book is in order to amass intellectual capital on the history and culture of Bangkok for Bangkokians and other interested parties. This also helps to cultivate Bangkok as a learning metropolis, corresponding to the BMA's policy to instill and nurture love, pride, and sense of belonging in the amazing wealth and character of Thailand's cultural heritages. This will eventually create voluntary participation and joint contribution from all concerned in the development of the city's cultural identity for coming generations.
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    Bangkok Shophouses
    (ภาพพิมพ์, 2024-07-11) ศุภชัย วงศ์นพดลเดชา, Louis Sketcher
    เพราะตึกแถวมีเรื่องราว... มันบรรจุประวัติศาสตร์ผ่านองค์ประกอบทางสถาปัตยกรรมผ่านร่องรอยคราบเก่า และยังมีหลากหลายเรื่องเล่า ผ่านวิถีชีวิตของชาวย่านนั้นๆ หนังสือ Bangkok Shophouses จะชวนคุณมาร่วมสังเกต และทำความรู้จักกับเรื่องราวเหล่านี้ผ่านภาพวาดจากดินสอ, ปากกา, และสีน้ำ ของตึกแถวในแต่ละย่านของเมืองเก่ากรุงเทพฯ เพื่อให้คุณได้ดื่มด่ำกับเมืองแห่งนี้ในอีกมุมมองหนึ่ง และอาจจะเป็นแรงบันดาลใจให้คุณ ได้ออกเดินทางตามรอยตึกแถวที่อยู่ในหนังสือเล่มนี้หรือมองหาตึกโปรดในมุมมองของคุณเองก็เป็นได้