Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers from a range of disciplines interested in museum, gallery and heritage studies, including public archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), but also the wide range of professionals and volunteers in the museum and...
Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums ...
Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers from a range of disciplines interested in museum, gallery and heritage studies, including public archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), but also the wide range of professionals and volunteers in the museum and...
Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums ...
Collecting a selection of essential writings by some of the leading authors in the field, Kevin Moore examines the developments in, and effectiveness of, museum management in a world dominated by new and exciting heritage and leisure attractions.
The selected papers in Museum Management outline the development of museum management to date, the challenges museums currently face, and the key areas of future development in management and marketing practice, and addresses:
strategic management issues: policy formulation, corporate planning and performance...
Collecting a selection of essential writings by some of the leading authors in the field, Kevin Moore examines the developments in, and effectivene...
Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything that the political climate and the imagination allows them to be. No two museums are the same. The papers which make up this volume give ample evidence of the variety of views that exist about museums. They also demonstrate that museums and museum professionals are moving forward with energy and conviction. This volume will be invaluable to...
Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places...
This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things.
The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which discuss objects variously as historical documents, functioning material, and as semiotic texts, as well as those which examine the politics of objects and the methodology of object study.
The second...
This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people...
Distance education is practised in all parts of the world and in recent years, its scope has developed enormously and rapidly. It has become an intrinsic part of many national educational systems and an academic discipline in its own right. Research into the area has produced a body of theory which is now being used to improve its practice. This new edition of Theory and Practice of Distance Education has been thoroughly updated both by describing how practice has changed, and by examining recent research in the field. Like the first edition, this book provides a comprehensive...
Distance education is practised in all parts of the world and in recent years, its scope has developed enormously and rapidly. It has become an intrin...
Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene. By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on...
Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of th...
This edition incorporates articles of the late 1990s that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The text covers broad themes relevant to providing for all museum visitors and also focuses specifically on educational groups. Contents include: new communication models for the museum; problems in visitor orientation and circulation; increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction; education - at the heart of museums.
This edition incorporates articles of the late 1990s that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The text covers broad...
'Preventive Conservation in Museums' explains the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession.
'Preventive Conservation in Museums' explains the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific bac...
