Offers the repository of key articles, essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. This book focuses on LGBT issues and museums, and collects articles which focus on women and museums. It is suitable for those studying gender and sexuality …
Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts o…
Museum objects" provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts …
Pt.1 What we know about visitor attention1. Introduction2. Early Studies3. Theories and Models4. Outcomes of Engaged Attention5. Overview of the Attention-Value ModelPt.2 Understanding value and motivation6. Value as a Combination of Quality and Duration7. How Value Influences C…
In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to h…
In 'The multisensory museum: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on touch', Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to…
The buildings for performing arts--including theatres, concert halls, opera houses--that we show in this book are actual endless live performance. Architecture is connected with music, opera, and people by the "director"--The architect--and then art is extended. Newly built, ren…
Structured around the key phases of the exhibition design process, this guide offers complete coverage of the tools and processes required to develop successful exhibitions. Intended to appeal to the broad range of stakeholders in any exhibition design process, the book offers t…
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe, which do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology. They have an important role as education facilities and many showcase archaeology in a variety of ways. This research assesses…
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdis…