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Managing Museums and Galleriesby Michael Fopp
Routledge 1997; US$ 50.95Managing Museums and Galleries examines the highly sophisticated principles and techniques of modern business management from the from the perspective of museums and galleries and delineates their practical application. more...
Marketing the Museumby Fiona McLean
Routledge 1996; US$ 51.95The ideal guide to the ways in which museums can achieve a marketing orientation. It is essential reading for museum professionals, students and anyone in the heritage industry around the world. more...
Forward Planningby Timothy Ambrose; Sue Runyard
Routledge 1991; US$ 45.95Forward Planning provides a complete basic guide; from the principles on which planning is founded, through drawing up the plan itself, implementation and monitoring, through to the wider potentials that good planning permits. more...
Museum Volunteersby Sinclair Goodlad; Stephanie McIvor
Routledge 1998; US$ 133.00Museum Volunters is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism. more...
Museums 2000by Patrick Boylan; International Committ
Routledge 1992; US$ 52.95The result of a debate organized by the Museums Association in 1989, between some of the world's leading museum professionals, active politicians, economists and marketing specialists, who looked at "real" problems faced now and in the future. more...
Museum Managementby Kevin Moore
Taylor & Francis 1994; US$ 54.95An introduction to the key issues, controversies and debates which exist in museum management. This book considers subject areas such as strategic management, HRM and marketing. more...
Museum Ethicsby Gary Edson
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 50.95Museum Ethics considers the theoretical and practical elements of the philosophy of conduct in relation to critical contemporary issues and museums. more...
Managing World Heritage Sitesby Anna Leask; Alan Fyall
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 57.95World Heritage Sites are some of the most recognised locations around the world. They include natural sites such as the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier and cultural ones such as the Pyramids at Giza, the Walled City of Baku in Azerbaijan and the Historic Centre of Riga in Latvia. The responsibility to manage them successfully and ensure that the resources are not damaged by visitors, war or environment is therefore vital. Managing World Heritage Sites covers the management issues encountered at cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites). WHS sites are high profile and as their designation states they are unique. They are often government owned and subject to political debate, they have iconic status and are therefore crucial to... more...
Recoding the Museumby Ross Parry
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 43.95Through an historical approach, Ross Parry excavates cultural assumptions and values that provide the basis of museum information management and display, and that are still used to this day. more...
Museums and Educationby Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 44.95At the beginning of the 21st century museums are challenged on a number of fronts. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance. The need to theorise learning and culture for a cultural theory of learning is very pressing. If culture acts as a process of signification, a means of producing meaning that shapes worldviews, learning in museums and other cultural organisations is potentially dynamic and profound, producing self-identities. How is this complexity to be measured? What can this measurement... more...









