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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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992,91 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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689,52 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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304,30 zł |
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Conservation: Mfa Highlights
ISBN: 9780878467297 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though conservation plays a decisive role in the public's experience of artworks in museums, visitors are often unaware of what it takes to keep them vibrant, intact and in some cases existent, and until now there has never been a comprehensive, accessible volume that explains this science to the layperson. Here, the respected conservation scholar Richard Newman recounts tales of uncovered forgeries and unknown masterpieces from more than 130 years of MFA history--tales of important works rescued from neglect and abuse, and of new insights that have helped us understand how artists and...
Though conservation plays a decisive role in the public's experience of artworks in museums, visitors are often unaware of what it takes to keep them ...
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106,55 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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464,52 zł |
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Dippy : The Tale of a Museum Icon
ISBN: 9780565092597 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Dippy, one of the world's most famous dinosaur replicas At over 85 feet long and over 100 years old, Diplodocus has fascinated and enthralled visitors since it was first revealed to an astonished public at the Natural History Museum in London in 1905. The story of how Dippy came to the Museum is one that involves danger and adventure in the harsh environment of the American Wild West, the generosity of an eccentric millionaire, and the involvement of the British royal family. With details of key dinosaur fossil finds and the latest research on Diplodocus anatomy and... Meet Dippy, one of the world's most famous dinosaur replicas At over 85 feet long and over 100 years old, Diplodocus has fascinated a... |
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36,53 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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500,21 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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281,11 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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104,75 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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330,97 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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198,59 zł |
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Art, Museums and Touch
ISBN: 9780719079337 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Art, museums and touch' examines conceptions and uses of touch within arts museums and art history. Candlin deftly weaves archival material and contemporary museology together with government policy and art practice to question the foundations of modern art history, museums as sites of visual learning, and the association of touch with female identity and sexuality.
This remarkable study presents a challenging riposte to museology and art history that privileges visual experience. Candlin demonstrates that touch was, and still is, crucially important to museums and art history. At the... Art, museums and touch' examines conceptions and uses of touch within arts museums and art history. Candlin deftly weaves archival material and contem...
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568,26 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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57,44 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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436,89 zł |
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Places of Public Memory : The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
ISBN: 9780817356132 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials" is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. "Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials" is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, a... |
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145,34 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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436,89 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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689,52 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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576,12 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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503,19 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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717,11 zł |