Museer & museologi

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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The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monograph...

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Museums today find themselves within a mediatised society, where everyday life is conducted in a data-full and technology-rich context. In fact, museums are themselves mediatised: they present a uniquely media-centred environment, in which communi...

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This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the co...

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Boken ger en innehållsrik och varierande läsning som pendlar mellan naturkunskap, etiska grepp och ett seriöst uppdrag. Boken är intressant. "Att somna i den lilla jeepen med lejon som presenterar brösttoner utanför bildörren, djur som känner...

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This is the first volume to explore the place of photography in archaeology: the parallel histories of the two fields, their similarities and differences, and their current and future relationships. Since its earliest beginnings, photography has b...

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Eugene Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal sk...

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Svåra museer Är sydstatsgeneralen Robert E. Lee en hjälte trots att han som överbefälhavare ansvarade för hundratusentals nordstatares död, med syfte att bevara slaveriet och att dela USA? Hur förhåller vi oss till Zarah Leanders artisteri med tan...

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Restaurera gamla byggnader eller riva och bygga nytt? Svaret har varierat beroende på tidsålder, såväl i Sverige som internationellt. Författaren och arkitekturhistorikern Fredric Bedoire tar avstamp i 1600-talets svenska stormaktstid och landar i...

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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 International Handbooks of Museum Studies bring together original essays by a global team of experts to provide a state-of-the-art survey of the field of museum studies. Offers unprecedented depth of coverage and breadth of scholarship in this...

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In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences - and this root and branch change would be necessary whether or not museums faced a funding crisis. It is the result o...

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Museum Exhibition is the only textbook of its kind to consider exhibition development using both theory and practice in an integrated approach. This comprehensive study covers care of exhibits, writing accompanying text, using new technology, exhi...

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Det finns ett närmast oöverskådligt antal museer, mässor, gallerier, konsthallar och lösa konstellationer som arbetar med utställningar i olika former. Museerna i Sverige hade häromåret nästan 25 miljoner besökare; enbart de större museerna visade...

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This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in w...

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This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking's ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further inv...

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This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the...

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Svenskarna är ett museiälskande folk. Museerna har många fler årliga besök än Allsvenskan, Globen och Melodifestivalen tillsammans. Dessa publikmagneter är samtidigt komplexa samhällsinstitutioner som inte bara skapar, förvaltar och ställer ut kul...

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Classical theories of conservation are well known in the heritage community, but in the last two decades thinking has shifted, and classical theory has faced increasing criticism. Contemporary Theory of Conservation brings together current ideas i...

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Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time, when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the just...

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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 academy. The Politics of Display brings together stud...

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10 Must Reads: History of Photography From Original Sources is not just another book on the history of photography. Based entirely on original sources of the time, it reflects the energy, excitement and passion which the invention and development ...

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The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: how to manage copyri...

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Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surroundin...

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Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visito...

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This collection deals with the impacts of climate change, focusing on urban regions and heritage-related scenarios. It assesses the effects of climate change on our cultural and natural heritage, disaster management, adaptation to climate change, ...

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Words are everywhere in the museum. Amidst all the visual exhibits, and in many non-exhibition areas, swarm a host of words, talking to a vast swath of people in ways that visuals cannot. Signage at the information desk, brochures, exhibition vide...

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The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be i...

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