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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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    Begin with the past : building the National Museum of African American History & Culture
    (Smithsonian Books, 2016) Wilson, Mabel O.
    "The Building of the National Museum of African American History and Culture traces the making of this unparalleled museum. Founding director Lonnie G. Bunch III described it as "ten years in the making, and 100 years in the making," and Mabel O. Wilson explores that effort in her narrative. As she discovers, initial calls for a permanent place to collect, study, and present African American history and culture in the early twentieth century never got off the ground. In the late 1990s, the notion began to gain momentum from increasing public interest and Congressional support. In 2003 the museum was officially established. Yet the work of the museum was only just beginning. Wilson takes an in-depth look at the selection of the director, site, and architects in the years that followed. Rising on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, the museum is a tiered bronze beacon inviting us to understand our past and embrace our future. Wilson explores how the "four pillars" of the museum's mission shaped its powerful structure, and she teases out the rich cultural symbols and homages layered into the design of the building and its surrounding landscape. This book is an important inside look at the making of a monument"-- Provided by publisher.
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    The British Museum 250 Years
    ( 2019-02-08) Marjorie Caygill
    This book has been published to record a quarter of a millennium in the life of the most famous museum in the world. The founding of the British Museum-the first ever public, national and secular institution of its kind-took place on 7 June 1753 by means of an Act of Parliament . Today, around 5 million people visit it each year, successors to countless others who have passed along Great Russell Street since the Museum opened to the public for the first time on 15 January 1759. Some of their comments-both admiring and critical, but rarely indifferent-are given here.
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    Cataloging the World
    ( 2014) Alex Wright
    The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives of ancient Sumeria and the Library of Alexandria to the Library of Congress and Wikipedia, humanity has wrestled with the problem of harnessing its intellectual output. The timeless quest for wisdom has been as much about information storage and retrieval as creative genius.
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    Cultural treasures of the world
    (DK, 2024-07-11) Diana Loxley, Kirsty Seymour-Ure and Marek Walisiewicsz.
    The first objects deliberately crafted by our distance ancestors around three milion years ago were stone tools - essentially pebbles given a sharp edge by striking them against other rocks. They proved so perfectly fit for their purpose that they remained in use for a million years. Over time, human ingenuity provided for other essentials, giving us the first weapons around 300,00 years ago, clothing 70,000 years ago, ceramic pots 20,000 years ago, and implements made of bronze 5,000 years ago and of iron 3,200 years ago. The same human impulse to improve everyday life has driven the technologies that shape our world today.
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    Doing women's history in public : a handbook for interpretation at museums and historic sites
    (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) Huyck, Heather A.
    "This book is a complete guide to interpreting women's history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-the objects, architecture and landscapes-in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them"-- Provided by publisher.
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    Exhibiting the Past
    (University of Hawaii Press, 2013, 2024-01-02) KIRK A. DENTON
    During the Mao era, China’s museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late 1970s and 1980s and the advent of globalization and market reforms in the 1990s, China underwent a radical social and economic transformation that has led to a vastly more heterogeneous culture and polity. Yet China is dominated by a single Leninist party that continues to rely heavily on its revolutionary heritage to generate political legitimacy. With its messages of collectivism, self-sacrifice, and class struggle, that heritage is increasingly at odds with Chinese society and with the state’s own neoliberal ideology of rapid-paced development, glorification of the market, and entrepreneurship. In this ambiguous political environment, museums and their curators must negotiate between revolutionary ideology and new kinds of historical narratives that reflect and highlight a neoliberal present. In Exhibiting the Past, Kirk Denton analyzes types of museums and exhibitionary spaces, from revolutionary history museums, military museums, and memorials to martyrs to museums dedicated to literature, ethnic minorities, and local history. He discusses red tourism—a state sponsored program developed in 2003 as a new form of patriotic education designed to make revolutionary history come alive—and urban planning exhibition halls, which project utopian visions of China’s future that are rooted in new conceptions of the past. Denton’s method is narratological in the sense that he analyzes the stories museums tell about the past and the political and ideological implications of those stories. Focusing on “official” exhibitionary culture rather than alternative or counter memory, Denton reinserts the state back into the discussion of postsocialist culture because of its centrality to that culture and to show that state discourse in China is neither monolithic nor unchanging. The book considers the variety of ways state museums are responding to the dramatic social, technological, and cultural changes China has experienced over the past three decades.
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    Finding History Where You Least Expect It
    ( 2020) Jill M. Gradwell ; Kathryn H. Leacock
    "This book explores innovative museum programs across diverse sites. The chapters highlight how museum programming, object-based learning, and site-specific education can impact learning. It is aimed at educators, programing developers, university students, and teachers to illustrate the innovative and engaging programing anyone can do."--Provided by publisher.
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    India-ASEAN archaeological atlas from satellite data "connectivity of regional culture : finite routes & infinite values"
    ( 2016) Gistda
    India-ASEAN archaeological atlas from satellite data "connectivity of regional culture : finite routes & infinite values" จัดพิมพ์ขึ้นเนื่องในโอกาสเฉลิมพระชนมพรรษา 5 รอบ (60 พรรษา) สมเด็จพระเทพรัตนราชสุดาฯ สยามบรมราชกุมารี แผนที่ภาพโบราณคดีของอินเดีย-อาเซียน จากข้อมูลภาพถ่ายทางดาวเทียม การเชื่อมต่อทางภูมิภาคและวัฒนธรรม จาก Routes ไม่เพียงแต่อินเดียที่เดียว แต่รวมไปถึงภูมิภาคทางเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ มีตั้งแต่ไทย อินโดนีเซีย มาเลเซีย พม่า กัมพูชา เวียดนม และลาว
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    Japanese Shrines What is a shrine?
    ( 2006) National Museum of Japanese History
    หนังสือเล่มนี้ได้รวบรวมประวัติศาสตร์ ความเชื่อเทพเจ้าทุกประเภทในหมู่เกาะญี่ปุ่น ผลงานนิทรรศการ "เทพเจ้าและงานเทศกาลของญี่ปุ่น: ศาลเจ้าคืออะไร" โดยพิพิธภัณฑ์ชิมาเนะโบราณอิซุโมะ ซึ่งมีบทบาทสำคัญในฐานะสถานที่สำคัญที่เกี่ยวข้องกับชีวิตและขนบธรรมเนียมประเพณีทางวัฒนธรรมของชุมชนท้องถิ่น รวมถึงภูมิทัศน์ทางประวัติศาสตร์ที่อนุรักษ์และสภาพแวดล้อมทางธรรมชาติ นำเสนอการวิจัยภายใต้หัวข้อ "การศึกษาภาษาศาสตร์ในความหลากหลายของศาลเจ้า" ปี 2544-2546 และ “ความหลากหลายของวัตถุสิ่งของในศาลเจ้า” ปี 2547 ภายใต้การทำงานร่วมกันของนักวิจัยจากหลากหลายสาขาวิชา รวมถึงประวัติศาสตร์โบราณคดี คติชนวิทยา สถาปัตยกรรม ประวัติศาสตร์ ประวัติศาสตร์ศิลปะ ประวัติศาสตร์ของพืชและภูมิทัศน์ และประวัติศาสตร์ชินโต
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    Legacies of an imperial city the Museum of London 1976-2007
    (Abingdon, Oxon, 2024-01-03) Samuel Aylett.
    This comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries’ shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations. At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public’s evolving social and political attitudes, the museum’s 1993–1994 ‘The Peopling of London’ exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums’ role in enacting change in the public’s understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London’s theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions. Legacies of an Imperial City is a useful resource for academics and researchers of postcolonial history and museum studies, as well as any student of urban history.
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    Museums of the Arabian Peninsula Historical Developments and Contemporary Discourses
    (Routledge, 2024-02-14) Edited By Sarina Wakefield
    Museums of the Arabian Peninsula offers new insights into the history and development of museums within the region. Recognising and engaging with varied approaches to museum development and practice, the book offers in-depth critical analyses from a range of viewpoints and disciplines. Drawing on regional and international scholarship, the book provides a critical and detailed analysis of museum and heritage institutions in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen. Questioning and engaging with issues related to the institutionalisation of cultural heritage, contributors provide original analyses of current practice and challenges within the region. Considering how these challenges connect to broader issues within the international context, the book offers the opportunity to examine how museums are actively produced and consumed from both the inside and the outside. This critical analysis also enables debates to emerge that question the appropriateness of existing models and methods and provide suggestions for future research and practice. Museums of the Arabian Peninsula offers fresh perspectives that reveal how Gulf museums operate from local, regional and transnational perspectives. The volume will be a key reference point for academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, anthropology, cultural studies, history, politics and Gulf and Middle East Studies.
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    The Mysteries of Borobudur
    ( 2019-02-08) John Miksic
    Borobudur – The largest Buddihist monument in the world – occupies a unique position in the architecheral record of Indonesia’s Hindu – Buddihist past. This book provide a comprehensive guide to the history and architecture of the monument in world.
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    Of whales and dinosaurs
    (Singapore: NUS press, 2016, 2024-05-18) Kevin Y.L. Tan
    Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its care, one of the largest collections of Southeast Asian plants and animals. Dedicated to scientific research and education, the museum was reincarnated as the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2015, closing the loop on its remarkable 127-year history. But beneath the sleek exterior of the museum's new, modern building lies a saga of struggle and change. That the collections survived at all through the multiple challenges of the nineteenth century, the disruption of World War Two, and its potential disintegration in the face of Singapore's modernization is nothing short of miraculous. This book is not only an institutional history of the museum but also recounts the frustrations, tenacity, and courage of the numerous individuals who battled officialdom, innovated endlessly, and overcame the odds to protect Singapore's natural history heritage.
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    Oukoubah : justice for the Cham Muslims under the Democratic Kampuchea Regime
    ( 2019-02-07) Ysa, Osman
    Oukoubah เป็นภาษาอารบิกแปลว่า ความยุติธรรม โดย หนังสือเล่มนี้กล่าวถึงการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธ์ในประเทศกัมพูชาช่วงปี ค.ศ. 1975-1979 หรือในยุคคอมมิวนิสต์กัมพูชาเรืองอำนาจ โดยชาวมุสลิมได้รับผลกระทบถึง 10% ของผู้ถูกฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์ในประเทศกัมพูชาที่มี 1,000000 คน แต่หลังจากการกวาดล้างเหลือเพื่อ 200,000 คน การค้นหาความยุติธรรมที่แท้จริงของชาวกัมพูชาที่ต้องอดทนเพื่อรอเวลาที่จะเป็นอิสระ การแสวงหาอำนาจ การขัดขวางการพัฒนาทางสังคมและเศรษฐกิจของประเทศให้เดินหน้า บทเรียนสำคัญที่จะไม่กลับไปซ้ำรอยอดีตอีก รวมทั้งกรณีศึกษาของนักโทษ 13 คน ที่ถูกกักขังในค่ายกักกันตุลสเลง (Tuol Sleng Prison) โดยหนังสือเล่มนี้เป็นทั้งเอกสารปฐมภูมิและทุติยภูมิได้ ในกรณีศึกาการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์
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    The Oxford handbook of history & material culture
    ( 2004) Gaskell, Ivan ; Carter, Sarah Anne
    "The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"-- Provided by publisher.
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    Postcard from Historic Frankfort Kentucky
    ( 2015) Russ Hatter and Gene Burch
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    Revolutionary Chinese paper cuts from the Newark Museum
    ( 2015) Han, Huirong
    เป็นเรื่องของการตัดกระดาษในประเทศจีน โดยการตัดกระดาษที่นำเสนอผ่านทางวัฒนธรรมของจีน ซึ่งพิพิธภัณฑ์นิวอาร์คได้เก็บรวบรวมกระดาษตัดของจีนไว้กว่า 3,000 ชิ้น เพื่อให้ความรู้และเป็นแนวทางในการศึกษาด้านศิลปะให้แก่บุคคลที่สนใจต่อไป
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    Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty Legacies of Elegance
    ( 2019-02-07) Kim Hyo-hyeong
    This book introduce 40 royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, from Geonwlleung of King Taejo to Yureung of Emperor Sunjong, all located withtin a 40 kilometer radius of the old center of Seoul. The burial mounds and stone carvings are presented in photographs that capture the royal burial grounds at their best times of the year, along with compact descriptions.
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    Siam's foreign relations in the reign of King Mongkut, 1851-1868
    (International studies center,Ministry of Foreign Affsirs, 2024-01-03) Neon Snidvongs.
    The International Studies Center (ISC) wishes to express its deep appreciation to the family of the late Thanpuying Neon Snidvongs, through her nephew Dr. Anond Snidvongs, for permitting the ISC to publish for the first time her doctoral thesis “The Development of Siamese Relations with Britain and France in the Reign of Maha Mongkut, 1851-1868”, under the title “Siam’s Foreign Relations in the Reign of King Mongkut, 1851-1868”, as another volume in the ISC’s series of books on diplomatic history. Following the practice with theses that the ISC has published, editorial changes were made only when necessary or prudent in order to keep the book as close as possible to the original thesis submitted to The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1960. The original spelling of personal and place names have also been retained. The conclusion of the Bowring Treaty with Great Britain in 1855, at the beginning of the reign of King Mongkut (Rama IV), ushered in the new era of Siam’s (as Thailand was then known) relations with Western nations. Under the Bowring and the “Bowring-type” Treaties, Siam relinquished its autonomy in judicial and fiscal matters to these Western countries. But what had begun as purely commercial relations soon took on a more political nature. The change was due mainly to the impetuous entrance of France into Indo-China, following the establishment of a French colony at the mouth of the Mekong River in 1862. Subsequent colonial expansion caused further problems for Siam. Consequently, Siam’s foreign policy was highlighted by its efforts to maintain independence in the face of encroaching colonial powers. In Thanpuying Neon’s work, Siam’s policies in dealing with Britain and France were examined in detail, based on Siamese, British and French archival materials, which had not yet been analysed extensively by that time. Her meticulous use of these archival materials gave us a tantalizing glimpse into the negotiations and diplomatic relations between Siam and the two major powers, the process as well as the characters involved. Her work clearly showed how Siam was able to adjust to the changing circumstances and how King Mongkut contributed to the formation of Siam’s foreign policy. The ISC believes that this work is crucial to the understanding of modern Thai diplomacy and hopes that readers will find it a useful source material on the subject of Siam’s foreign relations.
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    Te Papa To Berlin
    (Otago University Press, 2022-02-02) Ken Gorbey
    WHEN, IN 1997, I accepted the German government's invitation to become the chief executive of a planned Jewish museum in Berlin, I had only a hazy idea of what awaited me. I understood that the project was deeply enmeshed in national politics, and for that I came with a certain amount of experience from my days in Washington. I had also just written a book on German-Jewish history. However, I was not fitted for the task of defining a viable concept and actually translating it into the creation of a living museum suitable for viewing by a broad national and international audience. From the beginning, therefore, I was aware of the critical need to find a partner who would help guide the effort, someone with real museum experience and a proven record of accomplishment in the field. Finding the right one would be the key to the success or failure of the entire project.
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    The Birth of the Museum
    (London Routledge 1995., 1995) Tony Bennett
    In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture. Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place. This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government. For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to their reading list.
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    The Former Imperial Palace in Beijing
    (China Esperanto Press, 2022-06-07) Yongnan ; Wang Tianxing ; Liu Zongren
    A dozen picture albums featuring travels and plants have aroused much interest in recent years.
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    The Landscape of Historical Memory
    (Hong Kong University Press, 2024-01-02) Kirk A. Denton
    The divide between East Asia’s “Blue Camp” (Nationalist Party) and “Green Camp” (Democratic Progressive Party) has stirred considerable debate about how we should remember Cold War politics in East Asia. Recently, that conversation has been focused on museums. The Landscape of Historical Memory contributes to this ongoing dialogue by analyzing not only the presence of the Blue Camp and the Green Camp in Taiwan’s museums but also the state of these museums over the past three decades. The book also considers political involvement in the establishment, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums within the contexts of museums focused on archaeology, history, war, literature, ethnology, and ecosystems; martyrs’ shrines; and memorial halls. By examining the political narratives that surround Taiwan’s museums, The Landscape of Historical Memory offers readers a compelling exploration of how culture, history, and memory shape identities in Taiwan’s postcolonial landscape, the place of museums in a neoliberal economic climate, and the politics of historical memory in an emergent democracy.