I C O M news

I C O M news
Author: International Council of Museums
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

AIC News

AIC News
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Art and Cultural Heritage

Art and Cultural Heritage
Author: Barbara T. Hoffman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521857642

This volume contains relevant and pressing issues in the law, policy, and the practice of art and cultural heritage protection.

Museums and the Climate Crisis

Museums and the Climate Crisis
Author: Nick Merriman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 100098592X

Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises. They have a unique role because they take a long-term perspective, and their scholarship and independence mean that they remain trusted by the public. Providing insights and international case studies from a range of museum and gallery professionals, academics and consultants, this book explores how museums can use this unique perspective to engage the public as active citizens, and how they are exemplars of good practice in areas such as emissions reduction and encouraging biodiversity. It shows how museums can combat climate exhaustion by drawing on understandings about positive motivation, and how to develop exhibitions, events and activities that motivate visitors to take action. Taking a broad approach beyond purely climate issues, the contributions touch on the use of renewables, environmental controls and standards, travel (including virtual couriering), waste management (including recycling, plastic reduction and composting), reducing pollution and increasing biodiversity within museums. Museums and the Climate Crisis will be important reading to those studying in the fields of Museum Studies, Heritage Studies and Conservation. Taking a practical approach, it will also be beneficial to museum, gallery and heritage professionals who are grappling with the challenges of the climate crisis.

Museums: A Place to Work

Museums: A Place to Work
Author: Jane R. Glaser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135634602

Surveying over thirty different positions in the museum profession, this is the essential guide for anyone considering entering the field, or a career change within it. From exhibition designer to shop manager, this comprehensive survey views the latest trends in museum work and the broad-ranging technological advances that have been made. For any professional in the field, this is a crucially useful book for how to prepare, look for and find jobs in the museum profession.

Museum education / Médiation culturelle - éducation muséale / Educación museal - mediación cultural

Museum education / Médiation culturelle - éducation muséale / Educación museal - mediación cultural
Author: Stéphanie Wintzerith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2020-12-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3752691131

ICOM Education is the annual journal issued by CECA, the international Committee for Education and Cultural Action of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) network. The journal publishes papers written by museum professionals as well as academic researchers around the world in order to foster the reflection on the themes which are the committee's raison d'être: museum education, cultural action and audience research. This issue is dedicated to museum education, looking into the different meanings and understandings of the words as well as the various implementations in the museums all over the world.

Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage

Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage
Author: ICOM
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317197410

This volume provides an unparalleled exploration of ethics and museum practice, considering the controversies and debates which surround key issues such as provenance, ownership, cultural identity, environmental sustainability and social engagement. Using a variety of case studies which reflect the internal realities and daily activities of museums as they address these issues, from exhibition content and museum research to education, accountability and new technologies, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage enables a greater understanding of the role of museums as complex and multifaceted institutions of cultural production, identity-formation and heritage preservation. Benefitting from ICOM’s unique position in the museum world, this collection brings a global range of academics and professionals together to examine museums ethics from multiple perspectives. Providing a more complete picture of the diverse activities now carried out by museums, Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage will appeal to practitioners, academics and students alike.

Keyguide to Information Sources in Museum Studies

Keyguide to Information Sources in Museum Studies
Author: Peter Woodhead
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780720121513

This revised and updated edition provides an integrated guide to the documentation, reference aids and key organizational sources of information about museums and museum studies worldwide. Part One provides an overview of museums and the literature about them. Part Two is an annotated bibliography, and Part Three is an international directory of organizations. A detailed index completes the work.

Human Rights Museums

Human Rights Museums
Author: Jennifer Carter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317092805

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum. Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human rights museums across Asia and Latin America, the book adopts a broad museological approach. It does so by including national and community museums, as well as public and private museological initiatives, within its purview. Drawing on in-depth case studies about museums in Taiwan, Japan, Paraguay and Colombia – all discussed within their political and cultural contexts – the book examines the paradigmatic shift that has occurred within the museum field in the wake of the larger global transformations that have shaped contemporary geo-politics over the last 50 years. The diversity of geographical and political contexts, and the attention to lesser-known institutions within the canon of English museum studies literature, presents readers with a valuable opportunity to learn more about innovative museological models in non-English-speaking and non-Western contexts. Human Rights Museums will appeal to academics, scholars and students of museum studies and related disciplines, and to museum professionals seeking to know more about the diverse and evolving roles of museums in contemporary society.

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, Third Edition
Author: Marie C. Malaro
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588343227

Hailed when it was first published in 1985 as the bible of U.S. collections management, A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections offers the only comprehensive discussion of the legal questions faced by museums regarding collections. This revised and expanded third edition addresses the many legal developments—including a comprehensive discussion of stolen art and the international movement of cultural property, recent developments in copyright, and the effects of burgeoning electronic uses—that have occurred during the past twenty-five years. An authorative, go-to book for any museum professional, Legal Primer offers detailed explanations of the law, suggestions for preventing legal problems, and numerous case studies of lawsuits involving museum collections.