Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making mus

Drawing on Elaine Heumann Gurian’s fifty years of museum experience, Centering the Museum calls on the profession to help visitors experience their shared hum

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Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or compu

Art museums today face the challenge of opening themselves up as institutions to a changing society. This publication offers new perspectives on museological tr

Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalitie

Visitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, libraries and cultural organizations. How can your in

This book examines the practice of community engagement in museums through the notion of care. It focuses on building an understanding of the logic of care that

Here is a complete introduction to the history of museums, types of museums, and the key roles that museums play in the twenty-first century. Following an intro

In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the ei