Museer & museologi

This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which th...

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I denna bok undersöks kulturvård som universitetsämne och samhällspraktik, liksom relationen däremellan. Kulturvård år ett relativt ungt akademiskt ämne som under en kort tidsperiod har utvidgats med nya professionsinriktningar. Var står ämnet ida...

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Turismen sägs sedan länge vara en av världens största näringsgrenar. Och företeelser som kopplas till kulturarv tycks locka allt fler att profilera sin semester. Merparten av oss möter dock kulturarv på sin ordinarie turistresa hemma eller fjärran...

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Mörkt kulturarv är ett begrepp som är synonymt med arv som skadats eller präglas av grymhet, svårigheter, skam eller smärta. Boken utvecklar kunskapen om innebörden av det mörka kulturarvet i Sápmi. Särskild tonvikt läggs vid att problematisera hu...

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Svenskarna är ett museiälskande folk. Museerna har många fler årliga besök än Allsvenskan, Globen och Melodifestivalen tillsammans. Dessa publikmagneter är samtidigt komplexa samhällsinstitutioner som inte bara skapar, förvaltar och ställer ut kul...

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Jämställdhetsfrågor kan tyckas vara självklara inslag i museernas utställningar, men mångfaldsarbete kring genus och HBTQ-frågor möts ibland av motstånd. Samlingssystemen är tungrodda och bristande funktioner resulterar i osynliggjorda berättelser...

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New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind pla...

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While the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contex...

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All museum activities converge in the public forum of the exhibition - regardless of whether the exhibit is held in the physical museum or is on the Web. Since the first edition of this book in 2002, there has been a world-wide explosion of new ga...

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Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. See...

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This open access book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. Focusing on Viking Age objects, it tracks the effects of antagonisti...

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'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public facade...

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From the opening of The Louvre to the launch of Tate Modern and beyond, this accessible and succinct publication traces the development of the museum concept - encompassing curatorial, scholarly, political and cultural spheres - and its evolving r...

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Revealing the hidden labour of keeping things as they are, the book highlights the ethical commitments and dilemmas involved in trying to care well. In doing so, it reveals how conservation objects are made literally to matter. Taking debates in t...

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This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking's ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further inv...

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This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries. With critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines and global experts, numerous examples from international cultural institutions are employed to illumin...

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The story of how the museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not by returned to the lands or the people from which they came.

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Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums...we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How ...

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How do we think and imagine cultural and art institutions nowadays? How they need to be transformed to meet the needs of the artists and professionals in the field? This book examines the theoretical and practical tensions and questions related to...

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Historic house museums-one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country-have long depicted the owners of the house and their families, but representing the servants has introduced a unique set of challenges. While museum professio...

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Cultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated wit...

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VILKA HAR MAKTEN ÖVER KULTURARVET? Makten över kulturarvet ligger inte bara i händerna på museer och andra offentliga institutioner, den ligger också i händerna på fastighetsägare, byggvaruhus, entreprenörer, kommunpolitiker och privatpersoner. Ma...

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Transformativa möten - Nationalmuseum i ett feministiskt perspektiv fokuserar på vad det betyder att vara människa då och nu och hur möten med konstverk kan förändra våra liv. Margareta Gynning, 1:e intendent, pedagog och forskare, berättar om någ...

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Bringing Teachers to the History Museum: A Guide to Facilitating Teacher Professional Development surveys best practices and the latest research on how to plan, implement and evaluate teacher professional development at historic sites and museums....

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Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engageme...

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How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal--or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that ...

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Historicising Heritage and Emotions examines how heritage is connected to and between people and places through emotion, both in the past and today. Discussion is focused on the overlapping categories of blood (families and bloodlines), stone (mon...

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