Drawing on years of experience, Maria Piacente details the exhibition process in a straightforward way that can be easily adapted by institutions of any size. She and her contributing authors explore the exhibition development process in greater detail, providing the technical and practical methodologies museum professionals need today.
Public Spaces / Private Passions critically examines the growth of private museums in the 21st century, their impact on public institutions and what the future might look like. It is essential reading for museum professionals, art collectors, critics and cultural commentators and anyone working in the art trade.
The Museum Curator's Guide is a practical reference book that explores the core work of the curator within a gallery or museum setting.
Commencing with an overview of current material culture and museum studies theories, Nicola Pickering discusses their practical application within ......
The Contemporary Art Museum examines museum design using international examples including examples from Western Europe, China, Brazil and the USA. Written accessibly, it examines complex ideas from political and economic theory and argues that the development of the art museum since the mid-1970s has involved the deliberate blurring of boundaries ......
Written by an art advisor and former gallerist with an insider’s perspective, this book provides a timely overview of the commercial-gallery sector at a moment of rapid change and expansion. More than any participant in the art market, galleries are seen as mysterious actors with an opaque code of conduct. This book offers a fascinating view of ......
This book will deploy a wide range of material culture objects, artwork, and landscapes to the tell the story of the American Civil War. The objects, will document the war's history from its beginnings in the fierce debates over slavery through its legacy, including recent debates about Confederate monuments.
The author guides the inquisitive museum visitor through a series of questions and problems which confront museum curators, and their designers, behind closed doors. With a foreword by Christopher Frayling.
The Value of Museums makes the case that the niche museums has always been public well-being. This guide shows museums how to assess and communicate that essential public value.
A 21st-Century Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums 2ed
Museum curators, professionals, archivists and librarians deploy specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of their collections. This revised volume has a wide range of topic-specific expertise that comprises both an enduring text for preservation students as well as an essential one-stop reference for cultural heritage professionals.