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The Directory of Museums and Special Collections in the UK
ISBN: 9780851423487 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Compiled with the assistance of the Museums Association, this important directory incorporates over 2,100 museums. It covers all types, including collections of artefacts. The index contains over 3,000 subjects. It is designed particularly to uncover those holdings that are more unusual and less well-known. The directory covers all subjects except living organisms. An indispensable reference source for the library, and an ideal companion for researcher or enthusiast alike.
Compiled with the assistance of the Museums Association, this important directory incorporates over 2,100 museums. It covers all types, including coll...
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279,62 zł |
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Introducing Peace Museums
ISBN: 9780415739160 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied world-wide in recent decades. They relate stories and display artifacts banners, diaries, and posters for example about such themes as: art and peace, antiwar histories, protest, peacekeeping and social justice and promote cultures of peace. This book introduces their different approaches from Japan, which has the largest number of sites, to Bradford, UK and Guernica, Spain. Some peace museums and centers emphasize popular peace symbols and figures, others... This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) series of museums whose numbers have multiplied world-wide in rece... |
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738,75 zł |
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Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
ISBN: 9781598741636 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visitor experience, which extends far beyond the walls of the institution both in time and space. Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors' needs. He identifies five key types of visitors who...
Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision...
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189,91 zł |
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Nature and Culture: Objects, Disciplines and the Manchester Museum
ISBN: 9780719081149 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums.
How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum... This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectu...
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472,13 zł |
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Gender, Sexuality and Museums : A Routledge Reader
ISBN: 9780415554916 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on women and museums. At last, students of museum studies, women's' studies, LGBT studies and museum professionals have a single resource. Amy K. Levin brings together outstanding articles published in the past as well as new essays. The collection's scope is international, with articles about US,...
Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality...
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685,99 zł |
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The Power of the Object: Museums and World War II
ISBN: 9780956194343 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important new book, based on a conference held by the National Museum of Denmark, international museum professionals deal with the key issues affecting all history museums, using as the basis for their insights the interpretation by museums of World War II. Among the many key issues the contributors address are: * How best can abstractions like cause, effect and other ideas be interpreted through objects? * Just how is the role of objects within museums changing? * How should we respond when increasingly visitors no longer accept the curator's choice of objects and their...
In this important new book, based on a conference held by the National Museum of Denmark, international museum professionals deal with the key issues ...
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440,09 zł |
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Rethinking Learning: Museums and Young People
ISBN: 9780956194305 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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244,85 zł |
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Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco
ISBN: 9780816665198 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum monuments start to crumble. In an analysis of museum history, exhibition policy, the lack of national museum space for modern art, and postmodern exhibit spaces in Morocco, Katarzyna Pieprzak focuses on the role that art plays in the social fabric of a modernizing Morocco. She argues that the decay of colonial and...
Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the str...
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126,59 zł |
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Imagined Museums : Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco
ISBN: 9780816665181 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what happens when museum monuments start to crumble. In an analysis of museum history, exhibition policy, the lack of national museum space for modern art, and postmodern exhibit spaces in Morocco, Katarzyna Pieprzak focuses on the role that art plays in the social fabric of a modernizing Morocco. She argues that the decay of colonial and...
Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the str...
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353,55 zł |
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Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection
ISBN: 9780292723337 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collectionothe first such study of a major art museumoexplores how the Collection embodies its founders' desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils' legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyond their lifetimes.
This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collectionothe first such study of a major art museumoexplores how the Collection embodies its founders' de...
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211,07 zł |
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Ignite the Power of Art: Advancing Visitor Engagement in Museums
ISBN: 9780300167542 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do visitors like to experience art? What makes for an enriching museum visit? The Dallas Museum of Art undertook a groundbreaking seven-year research initiative to answer these questions, examining how people connect with art and identifying preferences and differing behaviors. Ignite the Power of Art publishes these findings and provides a new understanding of museum visitors. It describes how these studies have been used to build attendance, enhance exhibits, and develop new programs such as the Center for Creative Connections, the online Arts Network, and the Late... How do visitors like to experience art? What makes for an enriching museum visit? The Dallas Museum of Art undertook a groundbreaking seven-year re... |
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54,94 zł |
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New Thinking: Rules for the (R)Evolution of Museums
ISBN: 9780956194398 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new collection of essays by leading international museum practitioners focuses on the across-the-board innovations taking place in some of the world's most forward-thinking museums - and charts the new directions museums will need to take in today's increasingly challenging and competitive environment. Among the twenty world-class organisations sharing their innovative experiences are: Canada Agriculture Museum Canadian Museum for Human Rights Conner Prairie Interactive History Park Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution Imperial War Museum Liberty Science...
This exciting new collection of essays by leading international museum practitioners focuses on the across-the-board innovations taking place in some ...
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383,67 zł |
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Narratives of Community: Museums and Ethnicity
ISBN: 9781907697050 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking book, cultural theorist and historian Olivia Guntarik brings together a collection of essays on the revolutionary roles museums across the world perform to represent communities. She highlights a fundamental shift taking place in 21st century museums: how they confront existing assumptions about people, and the pioneering ways they work with communities to narrate oral histories, tell ancestral stories and keep memories from the past alive. The philosophical thread woven through each essay expresses a rejection of popular claims that minority people are necessarily...
In this groundbreaking book, cultural theorist and historian Olivia Guntarik brings together a collection of essays on the revolutionary roles museums...
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383,67 zł |
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Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History
ISBN: 9780415602563 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how such notions made the nation imaginable to the public in both the past and the present; how they represented a new modality of seeing for... While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different appr... |
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738,75 zł |
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Science Exhibitions: Curation and Design
ISBN: 9780956194350 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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507,73 zł |
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The New Museum Community: Audiences, Challenges, Benefits
ISBN: 9780956194374 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of authoritative essays, this book examines in depth how museums globally are succeeding - in many different ways - in reaching and involving social groups traditionally overlooked or excluded from the museum experience.It will act as an invaluable and inspiring guide for any museum, gallery or cultural organisation - large or small - intent on engaging with the broadest possible audience. Among the topics covered are: Guests are our Heroes; Mainstreaming Outreach: Taking Audiences to the Core; Museum Provision for Visually Impaired Visitors; Participation and Personalisation;...
In a series of authoritative essays, this book examines in depth how museums globally are succeeding - in many different ways - in reaching and involv...
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442,74 zł |
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Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture
ISBN: 9780415885751 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art.
This text publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London...
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765,14 zł |
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Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements
ISBN: 9780415885041 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical issues that public historians, museum practitioners, and policy makers can draw upon in developing responses to the increasing recognition of Britain's history of African enslavement.
This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical iss...
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738,75 zł |
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Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience
ISBN: 9780415891844 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment transactions that comprise the intricate experiences of visitors? To strengthen the disciplinary knowledge base supporting exhibition design, we must understand more about what 'goes on' as people engage with the multifaceted... Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as en... |
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765,14 zł |
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Handbuch Zur Ausstellungspraxis Von a Bis Z
ISBN: 9783786116929 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wie stellt man eigentlich eine Ausstellung auf die Beine? Vom ersten Konzept ber den Leihverkehr bis zur Vernissage ist das vollstndig berarbeitete und aktualisierte Nachschlagewerk fr Ausstellungsmacher ein hilfreicher Begleiter. Von A bis Z werden alle wichtigen Aspekte nach Sachgebieten in alphabetischer Reihenfolge besprochen.
Wie stellt man eigentlich eine Ausstellung auf die Beine? Vom ersten Konzept ber den Leihverkehr bis zur Vernissage ist das vollstndig berarbeitete un...
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145,15 zł |