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Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment... more...
Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 145.00Originating in a recent NSF conference held at the University of Michigan, this book examines the latest ideas about how children interact with objects and through that interaction acquire new understandings, attitudes, and feelings. Although museum education provides the primary setting within which object-centered learning is explored, the analyses... more...
Museums, Media and Cultural Theory
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 158.00Museums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in museums can exceed their designated roles as documents or specimens. In this wideranging and original book, Michelle Henning explores how historical and contemporary museums and exhibitions restage the relationship between... more...
A Companion to Museum Studies
Wiley 2011; US$ 51.95A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural... more...
Learning in the Museum
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums. Hein combines a brief history of education in public museums, with a rigorous examination of how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky... more...
Cultural Attractions and European Tourism
CABI 2001; US$ 110.00This book reviews the cultural tourism market in Europe from a survey carried out in 1997. It analyzes the way in which cultural attractions are produced for, and used by, cultural tourists and how such cultural attractions as museums, art galleries, monuments and heritage attractions are marketed. more...
Evolution in the Museum
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 41.95Rethinking Evolution in the Museum explores the ways diverse natural history museum audiences imagine their evolutionary heritage. In particular, the book considers how the meanings constructed by audiences of museum exhibitions are a product of dynamic interplay between museum iconography and powerful images museum visitors bring with them to the... more...
Consuming History
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 41.95Non-academic history ? ?public history? ? is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History , Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a... more...
The Responsive Museum
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 120.00The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's challenges and the debates that have resulted. more...
Art in Museums
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 150.00Canvasses past and contemporary problems of cultural representation and the relationship between the artist, the museum and society. more...









