Museer & museologi

Cultural heritage law and its response to human rights principles and practice has gained renewed prominence on the international agenda. The recent conflicts in Syria and Mali, China's use of shipwreck sites and underwater cultural heritage to ma...

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This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries. With critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines and global experts, numerous examples from international cultural institutions are employed to illumin...

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Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the tw...

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Under det senaste seklet har samhällsutvecklingen formats av migration. Sverige har gått från att vara ett utvandrarland till ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Hur gick det till när berättelser om migration, mångkultur och de invandrades erfarenheter b...

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Dagens museer möter en snabbt föränderlig omvärld som ställer nya krav på verksamhet och anställda. Att utveckla museernas arbete i samklang med deras samhällsuppdrag kräver ett medvetet underhåll av personalens kompetens, grundat i de anställdas ...

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Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals of visibility and preservation under a variety of conditions. Beginning with the science of how light...

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Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. See...

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The Role of Today's Museum provides a thorough investigation of what museums do and why. Arguing that museums are multifunctional institutions, the book examines the consequences of this for the services that museums provide, the publics to whom t...

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The Micro-Historian's Guide to Research, Evidence, & Conclusions imparts useful guidance to motivated historians, genealogists, special interest researchers, and local history enthusiasts. As long-buried sources become available via the intern...

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Svenskt kulturarv kan man tänka på som ett slags mentalt universum. Ett inre landskap av berättande som ständigt förändras, från mormors läsning i folkskolans läsebok till digitalt berättande idag. Jag har runt om i landet mött människor som berät...

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Art museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never been more popular, their direction and values are now being contested as never before - both in the media and in...

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As more and more people are recognizing the need for accurately representing the story of the United States in public narratives, especially those told at museums and historic landmarks, heritage studies is emerging as an important program of stud...

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As more and more people are recognizing the need for accurately representing the story of the United States in public narratives, especially those told at museums and historic landmarks, heritage studies is emerging as an important program of stud...

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Heritage and Sustainable Urban Transformations introduces the concept of 'deep cities', a novel approach to the understanding and management of sustainable historic cities that will advance knowledge about how the long-term, temporal and transform...

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This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past. The recent destruction of cultural heritage in war and controversies over Civil War monuments in the US have fore...

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Jämställdhetsfrågor kan tyckas vara självklara inslag i museernas utställningar, men mångfaldsarbete kring genus och HBTQ-frågor möts ibland av motstånd. Samlingssystemen är tungrodda och bristande funktioner resulterar i osynliggjorda berättelser...

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På fjället och i skogarna i Sverige och Norge betar fortfarande kor och getter med skällor som pinglar. De är inte så många som de en gång var under fäbodbrukets glansdagar, men de finns fortfarande. I de norska fjällen betar dessutom ett stort an...

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Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects ...

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Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected b...

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Art in Science Museums brings together perspectives from different practitioners to reflect on the status and meaning of art programmes in science centres and museums around the world. Presenting a balanced mix of theoretical perspectives, practit...

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I Sverige har museerna årligen fler besökare än biograferna och teatersalongerna tillsammans. Det finns sug efter den kunskap som förmedlas på museerna. Därför är det viktigt att ställa frågor om vad som ställs ut och inte ställs ut, vad som berät...

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Den här avhandlingen handlar om kulturhistoriska museers samtidsinsamling. Att samla och dokumentera den egna samtiden är en praktik som i Sverige utvecklades på 1970-talet. Syftet var att de kulturhistoriska museerna, på ett samordnat och systema...

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With the rise of post-truth and fake news, a thorough examination of authenticity has never been so relevant. This book explores the geography of authenticity, investigating a wide variety of places used by tourists. Not only does it assess what m...

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Museums and cultural institutions of all sizes and budgets are striving to remain relevant in an ever-changing landscape. This volume looks at organizations that have challenged the preconceived notions about their site and its mission by working ...

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We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the communities that created and used them. How, though, are such objects to be understood, de...

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Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Trinidad Rico's critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami tha...

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A complete guide to interpreting women's history. Women's history is everywhere, not only in historic house museums named for women but also in homes named for famous men, museums of every conceivable kind, forts and battlefields, even ships, mine...

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Das Buch widmet sich Hitlers Verteilungsprogramm eingezogener Kunstsammlungen, das der Diktator nach dem "Anschluss" Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich 1938 für die "Ostmark" auflegte und auf das gesamte Großdeutsche Reich auszu...

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The first book to provide a full history of the development of architectural conservation, A History of Architectural Conservation is considered a landmark publication by architectural conservation students and professionals the world over. Twenty...

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