The Museum in the Digital Age
New Media and Novel Methods of Mediation
The current “digital revolution” or “digital era” has affected most of the realms of today’s world, particularly the domains of communication and the creation, safeguarding and transmission of knowledge. Museums, whose mission is to be open to the public and to acquire, conserve, research, communicate and exhibit the heritage of humanity, are thus directly concerned by this revolution. This collection highlights the manner in which museums and curators tackle the challenges of digital technology. The contributions are divided into four groups that illustrate the extent of the impact of digital…
The digital revolution directly concerns museums. This collection highlights how curators tackle the challenges of digital technology, exploring its impact on exhibitions, the conservation of digital works, communication, and the legal aspects of digitalisation.
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To celebrate the first ten years of the international forum Collecting and Display, as well as the launch of a dedicated series of publications “Collecting Histories”, in 2014, a conference dedicated to new directions in terms of collecting, display, visitor experience and the use of modern media in today’s museums was held at museums of the city of Memmingen in Bavaria. Speakers looked into whether and how the engagement with the history of collections, in their diverse permutations, has influenced and modified modern museology. This volume looks forward towards a…
This volume looks at the future of museums, confronting challenges like funding cuts and a dubious art trade. It also explores exciting prospects, from new possibilities in display and visitor experience to the rising visitor numbers at major museums worldwide.
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This volume explores the process of transformation that is affecting art museums and their role in the modern world. It considers art museums from the perspectives of their social disposition, pedagogical practices, and the education they offer. The book embraces modern perspectives as a part of the international process where museums’ activities are transforming from the established traditional approach to more innovative methods, such as the digital environment, websites development, and social activities, among others. The volume is divided into three parts wherein museums are considered as agents of different…
This volume explores the transformation of art museums in the modern world, considering their role in society, pedagogy, and education. It offers inspirational strategies for museums shifting from traditional to innovative methods and features interviews with educators.
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This book deals with 636 open-air museums in 31 European countries, and presents various details concerning the evolution of European vernacular architecture and the modern approach to open-air museums reconstructing old ways of living in the countryside. The publication has many illustrations and also contains 2339 black-and-white photos. In addition to scholars and the general reader, the book will also be of interest to open-air museums, as it provides insights into attracting visitors to such institutions.
This book covers 636 open-air museums in 31 European countries, exploring the evolution of vernacular architecture and reconstructed rural life. Illustrated with 2339 photos, it provides valuable insights for scholars, readers, and museums on attracting visitors.
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Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their roles in contemporary societies, their engagement with “hot” topics and their part in wider conversations in a networked public culture. Hot topics such as homosexuality, sexual, and racial violence, massacres, drugs, terrorism, GMO foods, H1M1 (swine flu) and climate change are now all part of museological culture. The authors in this collection situate cultural institutions in an increasingly interconnected, complex, globalising and uncertain world and engage the why and how institutions might…
Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
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Museums are usually seen as arenas for the authorised presentations of reality, based on serious, professional knowledge. Yet, in spite of the impossibility of giving anything but a highly abstract and extremely selective impression in an exhibition, very few museums problematize this or discuss their priorities with their public. They don’t ask “what are the other truths of the matter?” Though the essays in this collection are not written with museums and truth as their explicit subject, they highlight contested truths, the absence of the truth of the underprivileged, whether…
Museums present authorized versions of reality but rarely discuss their priorities or ask “what are the other truths?” This collection of essays highlights contested truths, the truths of the underprivileged, and asks what the consequences for museums should be.
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This book provides a detailed exploration of profit-driven biblioclasm, centring on the case of a Book of Hours, part of the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings until 2021. Facing financial difficulties exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum chose to deaccession and sell various pieces, among which was a manuscript from the Mary Benson bequest of 1919, later dismembered by an American dealer who had purchased it at auction. Whilst examining the moral complexities surrounding these sales and the destruction of irreplaceable European cultural artifacts, the book uncovers the identity of…
When financial hardship forced the Brooklyn Museum to sell a Book of Hours, a dealer purchased and dismembered it for profit. This book uncovers the moral complexities of the sale, identifies the manuscript’s original owner, and digitally reconstructs the priceless text.
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Archaeology, Heritage and Tourism in West Africa
A Crossroads of Knowledge
West Africa is a rich storehouse of heritage resources belonging to different time periods. Archaeologists attempt to exhume, analyse, and interpret aspects of human history found in artifacts and their contexts. The longstanding assumption that archaeology is simply a science of the past, with little thought for the present, must be rejected. This book makes a striking argument for a curricular revolution which taps into the strengths of such allied fields as heritage, tourism, and museum management, which come together to constitute Cultural Resource Management (CRM). This account reveals, in…
The era of conceptualising archaeology as a purely academic exercise is over. This book argues for a curricular revolution in West Africa, uniting the field with heritage, tourism, and museum management to create employment through Cultural Resource Management (CRM).
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The Heritage Theatre
Globalisation and Cultural Heritage
The Heritage Theatre is a book about cultural heritage and globalisation. Cultural heritage is the stage on which the global community, smaller communities and individuals play out their similarities and differences, their identities and singularities. Cultural heritage forms an implicit cultural code governing the relationship between parts and the whole, individuals and communities, communities and outsiders, as well as the relationship between communities and the world as a whole. Cultural heritage, by way of its producers, its products and its audience, presents an image of the world and its inner…
Cultural heritage is the stage on which we play out our identities. It is the code governing our relationship with a globalised world. This book explores subjects from Kylie Minogue to DNA research in places as distant as Jakarta, Trinidad, and New York.
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The Author has condensed virtually everything that is known about the great white sharks that are preserved in European museums in this book. Available data of 105 great white sharks from 45 institutions is presented herein. Most material consists of taxidermied specimens and jaws. Most specimens with known capture locations come from the Mediterranean Sea. The majority of specimens are very old. The jaws belonging to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, dated from at least 1640-1660, are the oldest white shark material preserved in Europe. The largest specimens of which…
This encyclopedic account details the great white sharks preserved in European museums. It also covers their evolution, anatomy, and feeding. Enhanced by photographs and drawings, this book brings the extraordinary world of the great white shark to life.
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Museums and Written Communication
Tradition and Innovation
This volume brings together 30 museum experts (26 in English and 4 in French) to lift the lid on museum print and texts. Contributions were originally presented at the UNESCO World Book Capital of 2012, a timely and far-sighted conference held in Armenia. If text is essential to communication, how can museums be sure that what they offer will engage, interpret or even transform the visitor, the tourist or the scholar? This book offers a wealth of answers to this question and related concerns.
This volume gathers together 30 museum experts to lift the lid on museum print and texts. Contributions were originally presented at the UNESCO World Book Capital of 2012, a timely and far-sighted conference held in Armenia.
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Decolonising Political Modernity
From Ocean to Museum
This book applies a decolonial perspective to key categories of colonial modernity, such as racism and nationalism, explores oceanic thinking as an alternative and proposes a UK museum of colonial modernity based on a critique of several existing European museums. It analyses historical and contemporary manifestations of racism and nationalism, particularly in British society. Drawing on the concept of colonial modernity, it traces the origins of racism to the colonial expansion and exploitation that began in the fifteenth century and continues to shape the world today. The book is distinctive…
Applying a decolonial perspective to racism and nationalism, this book proposes a UK museum of colonial modernity. It uses oceanic thinking to present alternative visions of belonging and critiques several existing European museums.
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