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Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, an……続きを見る

Mill Power documents the making of a national park that changed the concept of what a national historical park could be. For a time in the 1800s, Lowell was Massachusetts’s cosmopolitan, must-see se……続きを見る

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. ……続きを見る

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The 1980s and early 1990s have seen a marked increase in public interest in our historic environment. The museum and heritage industry has expanded as the past is exploited for commercial profit. In……続きを見る

Témoignant des 23 ans d’expérience professionnelle de son auteur au sein du Musée de la civilisation à Québec, ce guide présente les principales méthodes auxquelles ont recours les évaluateurs en co……続きを見る

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts organisation – a development which has led to the need ……続きを見る

The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the acad……続きを見る

“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independe……続きを見る

Fluid preservation refers to specimens and objects that are preserved in fluids, most commonly alcohol and formaldehyde, but also glycerin, mineral oil, acids, glycols, and a host of other chemicals……続きを見る

Programming for People with Special Needs: A Guide for Museums and Historic Sites will help museums and historic sites become truly inclusive educational experiences. The book is unique because it c……続きを見る

Museums, libraries, and cultural institutions provide opportunities for people to understand and celebrate who they are, were, and might be. These institutions educate the public and civilize societ……続きを見る

At the turn of the 21st century, a significant boom in the construction of cultural buildings took saw the creation of hundreds of performing arts centers, theaters, and museums. After these buildin……続きを見る

Do you do a lot of reading? Are you a writer that publishes in e-pub format? Are you overwhelmed by volumes of reading? This book is for you! Because of such high volume of text being generated and ……続きを見る

Over recent decades corporate governance has developed an increasingly high profile in legal scholarship and practice, especially in the US and UK. But despite widespread interest, there remains con……続きを見る

Leading the Historical Enterprise: Strategic Creativity, Planning, and Advocacy for the Digital Age presents new ideas and strategies for leading and innovating in museums, historical societies, his……続きを見る

“Transformation Ideas are a Penny a Many; Executioners few & lonely; They use their arsenal precisely; to bring the rewards which are Unworldly"  A scintillating; Rib tickling and ……続きを見る

En esta ocasión te hablaré de un sistema sencillo de composición Web como Prestashop. Vamos a configurar módulos y posiciones, categorías, productos, fabricantes, marcas y pedidos, entre otras mucha……続きを見る

Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites aims to move the field forward in its collective conversation about the interpretation of slaveryーacknowledging the criticism of the past and acti……続きを見る

LGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear regularly in news media. If history museums and historic sites ar……続きを見る

Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Es……続きを見る

We understand many food franchisees have THREE COMMON PROBLEMS... 1. Little time because you are working harder than you expected. 2. You are making less money than you expected. 3. With a team that……続きを見る

Marketing the Museum is the ideal guide to the ways in which museums can overcome the numerous hurdles on the route to truly achieving a marketing orientation. The history of the museum is one of sh……続きを見る

Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience;……続きを見る

This book addresses the state-of-the-art initiatives as well as challenges, policy, and strategy issues in developing a digital heritage ecosystem within the broader context of an emerging digital c……続きを見る

Reshaping Museum Space pulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlights the complexity, significance and malleability of mus……続きを見る

Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing ……続きを見る

On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere. Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ……続きを見る

With roughly half of all income for non-profit arts organizations in the United States coming from earned revenue rather than donations and state funding, the issue of pricing is paramount to succes……続きを見る

For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators Series have been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of ev……続きを見る