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MUSEUMSetc

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sharing innovation


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Inspired ideas tempered with practical

experience. This will be the standard text or

generations to come. Required reading or all

who care about visitors. A key contribution

to this developing ield. A thought-

provoking selection o essays. The book is a

treasure trove, up-to-date and stimulating.

Enlightening, enriching and completely

relevant. A must-read or university and college

trustees. This handbook is essential readingor all who work with and benet rom these

unique institutions.A great book concept and

a great publishing ormat. This is a classic

work, an essential manual. Full o illuminatingexamples and practical suggestions. A great

resource or the exhibition design team.

A pleasure to read, and a shot o inspiration.

This is a ine addition to the museum library.


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348pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 39.95 | $59.95

978-1-907697-70-8

HB | 69.95 | $109.95

978-1-907697-71-5

Corrine Glesne is a qualitative

researcher, educational

anthropologist and Proessor

Emeritus at the University

o Vermont, who is currently

evaluating exhibitions

and working with international

educational programmes.

The Exemplary Museum: Art and AcademiaCorrine Glesne

The Exemplary Museum is the product o an extensive,

year-long study into campus art museums in the USA

commissioned by the Samuel H Kress Foundation.

The resulting ndings and methodology are ointernational signicance or both university museums

and art museums generally.

Although visitors to Americas 700-plus campus art

museums have almost quadrupled in the last 50 years,until now little was known about the visitor experience

within them - a situation reected internationally. This

pioneering book changes all that.

Focusing on exemplary museums - those which

are models o best practice - the book explores the

challenges and conditions or success or university art

museums. Among the issues explored are:

how are these museums integrated into the lives

o their users?

how do users interact with these museums

beyond the academic curriculum?

what organisational cultures and systems best

support these museums?

Few can rival the Samuel H Kress Foundations

ongoing commitment to academic art museums.

The Exemplary Museum encapsulates the

Foundations understanding and is a must-read

or university and college trustees presidents,

provosts, deans, and museum leaders.

David Alan Robertson, Executive Director,

Association o Academic Museums and Galleries.


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The Innovative Museum: Its Up To You...A Collection o Essays

In the end, it is up to you. [A recent study] concluded

that the most important actor in the success o amuseum was a committed director who was willing

to give 200% to the cause. The path is long, but therewards are great. Develop a thick skin and dont be

discouraged. Keep your eyes on the prize! You can get

there and it will be worth it... Lyndel King, Director, Frederick R Weisman Art

Museum, University o Minnesota

The Innovative Museum: Its Up To You... brings

together or the rst time in book orm a rich, varied

and inspirational collection o essays which examine

the role and the practice o innovation in the museum

context worldwide.

In its 440 pages, The Innovative Museum shares the

experience o some o the worlds leading international

thinkers and practitioners in the eld o innovation

and museums. Together, these essays provide

sound, practice-based examples o the process o

successul innovation, especially in the key areas o

communication, inclusion and change in a museum,

gallery and heritage context.

440pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 44.95 | $64.95

978-1-907697-73-9

HB | 74.95 | $109.95

978-1-907697-74-6


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Reimagining Museums:Practice in the Arabian PeninsulaPamela Erskine-Lotus (Editor)

A uniquely distinguished range o proessionals, with

senior experience o museums, the arts and heritage

in the Gul and beyond, contribute to ReimaginingMuseums, a groundbreaking 704-page guide to best

practice in the worlds economic powerhouse - and

the thinking and innovation taking place there whichare o international importance.

The Gul States have activated the most explosive

museum building boom per capita in history. And

with it a undamental rethinking o museums role.

Currently museums see themselves as a place rather

than a process - but there is nothing inherent to the

ICOM museum denition which requires a museum

to unction, engage, or operate in the way Western

museums do

Reimagining Museums is the rst book to examine

the emerging - and innovative - globally-signicant

museum developments taking place in this ascinating

and increasingly inuential region. Ultimately its

contents aim to inspire museum practice both in the

region and around the world.

704pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 59.95 | $89.95

978-1-907697-64-7

HB | 89.95 | $129.95

978-1-907697-65-4

Pamela Erskine-Lotus has held

senior museum positions in the

USA, UAE and Qatar and writes and

speaks internationally on aspects o

Peninsula museology.


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A Handbook or Academic MuseumsVolume 1: Exhibitions and Education

Steanie S Jandl & Mark S Gold (Editors)

Academic museums share a unique mandate: they are

partners in education. They have evolved in tandem

- not always easily - with their parent organizations.They can oten pursue their missions in innovative

ways, address controversial topics, and have the

reedom to experiment. But they operate within achallenging administrative structure and in recent

years, some colleges and universities have questionedthe very need to maintain a museum, while others

have attempted to monetize art collections to raise

capital.

This pioneering book (with a second companion volume)

brings together as much good, current thinking as

possible about the opportunities and issues unique to

academic museums. Wide-ranging and committed, this

is a collection o essays written about, by, and or the

community o academic museums. Above all, they are

intended as a practical resource or that community. The

authors were charged with sharing useul inormation:

strategies, best practices, mistakes made, lessons

learned, what worked, what didnt, and why. This book

oers the combined wisdom o the proession or thebenet o its practitioners.

A Handbook for Academic Museums is a vital

resource or anyone working in or concerned

about such museums. It will become the

standard text or generations to come.

James Cuno, President & CEO,

The J. Paul Getty Trust.

746pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 69.95 | $99.95

978-1-907697-52-4

HB | 99.95 | $149.95

978-1-907697-53-1

Steanie S Jandl is an independent

museum proessional and previously

Associate Curator or Academic

Programs at the Williams College

Museum o Art.

Mark S Gold is a partner in the law

rm o Parese, Sabin, Smith & Gold,

LLP and a Board Member o the New

England Museum Association.


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664pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 64.95 | $94.95

978-1-907697-55-5

HB | 94.95 | $134.95

978-1-907697-56-2

Steanie S Jandl is an independent

museum proessional and previously

Associate Curator or Academic

Programs at the Williams College

Museum o Art.

Mark S Gold is a partner in the law

rm o Parese, Sabin, Smith & Gold,

LLP and a Board Member o the New

England Museum Association.

A Handbook or Academic MuseumsVolume 2: Beyond Exhibitions and Education

Steanie S Jandl & Mark S Gold (Editors)

This is the second o two companion volumes which,

quite simply, aim to aggregate in one convenient

place good current thinking on the opportunities andissues unique to academic museums. The result is a

collection o best practices, innovations, and sound

approaches that oer guidance and inspiration or theentire community, large and small, well-endowed and

modestly-resourced alike. This book is - above all - apractical resource.

While the rst volume addresses key issues related

to exhibitions and education, this second volume

(available separately) addresses most everything else,

including the strategic issues o mission, relationship

to the parent organization, phases o birth and growth

o academic museums, new technologies, and the

collection as an asset o the parent organization.

The essays in this volume provide insight into

a range o complex issues acing college and

university museums. This handbook is essential

reading or all who work with and benet rom

these unique institutions.Kimerly Rorschach, Director, Seattle Art Museum

and President, Association o Art Museum

Directors.


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Photography and the Artists Book

Theresa Wilkie, Jonathan Carson & Rosie Miller (Editors)

There is a renewed interest in the relationship o

photography and the artists book, both as a work

o art and as an alternative means o exhibition anddissemination. There is also a notable expansion in

the activities o sel-publication by photographers and

artists who use the photograph.

Furthermore, the theorising o the photographic

essay, and notions o conceptual documentary, havebecome important areas o discourse or practitioners

and theorists alike who are interested in working with

the photograph in book orm. This important new

publication provides a broad international perspective,

bringing together writers rom Australia, Germany,

Ireland, the UK and the USA - both leading theorists

and leading practitioners - to more ully explore the

issues raised by the relationship o photography with

the artists book.

Among the artists whose work is explored areFrancesca Woodman, Fiona Tan, Tacita Dean, Adam

Murray/Preston is my Paris, and many more. The work

o many o the artists discussed is also illustrated.

A must-read or anyone interested in the uture

o the photo book.

Frank Cost,

James E. McGhee Distinguished Proessor,

School o Photographic Arts & Sciences,

Rochester Institute o Technology.

350pp | 203 x 127pp

PB | 34.95 | $54.95

978-1-907697-50-0

HB | 64.95 | $99.95

978-1-907697-51-7

Theresa Wilkie is Director o Design

and Culture, Jonathan Carson is

Associate Head (Academic),

and Rosie Miller is Critical &

Contextual Studies Area Leader

in the School o Arts & Media,

Salord University, Manchester.


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The Photographic Studios o EuropeH Baden Pritchard

The Photographic Studios o Europe, rst published in

1882, is the only detailed account available o working

practices and conditions in the studios o the leading

photographers o the Victorian period. Revealing,surprising, perceptive and authoritative, this rst-hand

report is based on seeing scores o photographers and

their workshops in action. The result is ascinatingand valuable both as a social historical record and as a

classic o photographic literature. This newly-designedand typeset, 294-page edition provides - or the rst

time - a highly readable and accessible selection rom

the original Victorian edition.

Author H Baden Pritchard adopts a colloquial style

he leads us on a house-to-house visitation among

the principal studios o Europe... determined to

write down great things and small alike... and so

produce a record o practice. Recording in detail the

physical environment o each workplace, the range

o photographic work undertaken, the employees,

clientele, pricing policies and unique techniques o

each studio, the book provides unparalleled insights

into the burgeoning business o photography in the

Victorian period.

This important book will be o interest to photographic

curators, art historians, social historians - and to

anyone with an interest in the history o photographyand media.

294pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 29.95 | $44.95

978-1-907697-79-1

HB| 59.95 | $89.95

978-1-907697-80-7

H Baden Pritchard (18411884)

was Secretary o the Photographic

Society o Great Britain and remains

a distinguished name

in photography

(Mark Haworth-Booth).


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Museums are using games in many ways or

interpretation, education, marketing, outreach and

events.Museums at Playshowcases tried and tested

examples rom the sector and seeks to inspire urther

inormed use o games as part o the museum toolbox.

It also draws on relevant experience rom other sectors,

and on the experience o game designers and theorists.

It looks at learnings rom other disciplines and exploresthe possibilities o interaction using gaming within

museums.

Museums At Playis written by leading museum

specialists rom world-class institutions including:

British Museum; Carnegie Museum o Natural History;

Childrens Discovery Museum o San Jose; Conner

Prairie Interactive History Park; Museum o London;

New Art Gallery, Walsall; Science Museum; SciTech;

Smithsonian Institution; Tate; Walker Art Center; and

specialists rom Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany,

Greece, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK and USA.

In some 50 chapters, this book provides anextraordinary and unique international overview o

the development, use and evaluation o games within

museum and cultural contexts.

654pp | 216 x 140mm

eBook | 34.95 | $54.95

978-1-907697-35-7PB | 64.95 | $99.95

978-1-907697-13-5

HB | 99.95 | $159.95

978-1-907697-14-2

Katy Beale is co-ounder and

director o Caper, an agency that

inspires disruptive thinking anddigital innovation across creative

and not-or-prot sectors.

Museums at Play:Games, Interaction and LearningKatie Beale (Editor)


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Wonderul Things:Learning with Museum Objects

Julian Vayne

This is a book about the learning potential o objects -

whether theyre rare arteacts in museum collections,

or ound objects discovered at your local car boot sale.This book grows rom the simple act that learning by

engaging with objects can be a powerul experience.

Wonderul Things is packed with bright and tested ideas- oten in the orm o games - which will help people

o all ages relate to, understand and explore museumobjects.

Ater an exploration o the process o learning rom

objects, the book puts these principles into practice, in

the orm o over 50 easy-to-set-up games, designed to

acilitate creative interaction with objects. Each game

has been tested out and rened in practice many times,

and guidance is provided to ensure each game both

runs smoothly and provides the best possible learning

outcomes. All the games are ideal or use in classroom

or museum settings, and most are easily adapted or

use with all educational ages, rom 5 - 18. However,

some can also successully acilitate interaction with

with adults; and the more complex, drama-based

games have been used in psychotherapeutic work andwith older people or reminiscence.

Inspired ideas tempered with practical

experience. The holistic approach is rereshing and

anyone working with arteacts should nd this an

indispensible read. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Kate Osborne, Royal Albert Memorial Museum,

Exeter.

194pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 26.95 | $39.95

978-1-907697-44-9

HB | 69.95 | $99.95

978-1-907697-45-6

Julian Vayne works as a museum

educator in the South-West o

England and is a passionate

advocate o object-based learning.


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Museums and the Disposals DebatePeter Davies (Editor)

With collecting or perpetuity no longer necessarily

the norm, and active disposals as much a part o

collections management as accessioning,Museums

and the Disposals Debate brings together internationalguidance, opinion, best practice and case studies in

deaccessioning and disposal policies and practice.

How museums react to their changing role - rom

public collector to eective manager - and how theyreview the purpose and role o their collections, will

shape the uture o the museum sector. What are the

issues in relation to disposals, and how can the benets

be weighed against the challenges and pitalls?

This major book is a timely addition to current

deaccessioning and disposals policies and programmes.

Its intention is to be a valuable advocate, critical riend

and inormation source or museum managers and

collection specialists across the sector.

The book brings together a range o authoritative,

experienced and thought-provoking voices rom

leading organisations, including:

Imperial War Museum Institute o Ideas National Trust or Historic Preservation

US National Park Service

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

644pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 59.95 | $ 89.95

978-1-907697-27-2

HB | 99.95 | $149.95

978-1-907697-28-9

Peter Davies is Cultural Policy

Advisor to Canterbury City Council

and has a long-standing interest in

how strategy and policy can create a

more sustainable museum sector.

Museums and the Disposals Debate

A collection of essays

Edited by Peter Davies

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Museums o Ideas: Commitment and ConictA Collection o Essays

Traditionally, museums have been established onthe basis o collections. However, some o todays

most challenging and dynamic museums are those

ounded on the basis o ideas. Their themes may span

human rights, social inclusion, peace, war, health,

gender, climate change... Their size, budget, scope

and ambitions may dier, but they are all driven and

committed in a way which tends to set them apart.

Museums o Ideas: Commitment and Conictprovides a

unique insight into the operation o these committed,

oten pioneering, sometimes challenging, institutions,

and highlights what can be learned rom their

experiences - and applied to benet the broader

museum community and its users.

Museums o Ideas is written by leading museum

specialists and ocuses on pioneering and innovative

institutions in over 17 dierent countries: Aghanistan,

Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Finland,

India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway,

Sweden, Ukraine, UK, and USA.

620pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 44.95 | $69.95

978-1-907697-21-0

HB | 89.95 | $145.95

978-1-907697-22-7


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Museum Retailing:A Handbook o Strategies or Success

Andrew Andoniadis

This major 400-page Handbook distils the exceptional

experience o one o the worlds leading museum store

consultants, Andrew Andoniadis, who has advised onover 300 separate museum store projects. Designed

either to be read rom cover to cover, or to act as a

reerence on specic issues, this comprehensive newpublication spans both the art and the science o

museum retailing.

The art includes topics such as product selection,

merchandising, display, customer service, layout and

design. The science includes the numbers and key

ratios needed or eective record-keeping, pricing

and inventory/stock management. Throughout, the

emphasis is on achieving better real-world results and

on simple, eective implementation.

Anyone in the museum retailing community

can benet greatly rom Andrews insights. He

presents his knowledge in an organized and

concise manner. Andrews advice will motivate

and inspire you to make your museum store all

it can be.Kelly Sullivan, Store Manager and Financial

Analyst, University o Michigan Museum o

Natural History

400pp | 216 x 140mm

eBook | 34.95 | $54.95

978-1-907697-48-7

PB | 44.95 | $69.95

978-1-907697-00-5

HB | 74.95 | $114.95

978-1-907697-08-1

Andrew Andoniadis is Principal

o Andoniadis Retail Services,and specialises in enhancing the

prots o museum stores through

consulting services and programs.


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Restaurants, Catering and Facility Rentals:Maximizing Earned Income

Arthur M Manask with Robert D Schwartz

This book will save your organization money. And make

your organization money. Put its principles, insights

and recommendations into practice and it will pay or

itsel tens or hundreds o times over.

The book is unique in making available the detailed,

highly practical results and recommendations o

real-world studies o oodservices and acility rentaloperations in some o the worlds leading museums,

galleries and cultural institutions. This range o

studies ocuses on the scenarios and challenges most

requently encountered as museums and cultural

institutions strive to manage ecient and protable

catering services. The studies are supplemented by

specially-commissioned essays.

With a Forward by Darrell R Willson, Administrator

o the National Gallery o Art, Washington DC,

Restaurants, Catering and Facility Rentals is richly

illustrated with examples o innovative and successul

oodservice acilities in museums and galleries

throughout the world.

Theres an art to improving income. We

discovered that when we worked with Manask

& Associates. With their guidance we exhibited

more than beautiul paintings. We exhibited an

improved bottom line.

Jane M. Pangborn, Director o Administration,

Norton Museum o Art.

490pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 59.95 | $95

978-1-907697-39-5

HB | 89.95 | $140

978-1-907697-40-1

Arthur M Manask is ounder and

CEO o Manask & Associates, the

leading provider o oodservice

consultancy to cultural institutions.

Robert D Schwartz is a principal

with Manask & Associates.


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Interpretive Master PlanningThe Psychology o Visitor Studies

John A Veverka

This two-volume work presents a wealth o

inormation on how to plan and design interpretive

acilities and services in museums, historic houses, sitesand parks, based on 30 years experience o working on

projects throughout the world.

John Veverkas lively text uses anecdotes, case

histories and interactive examples to illustrate allaspects o interpretive planning: rom theories o

visitor psychology to budgeting, planning strategies

and practical, eld-tested ideas on everything rom

scriptwriting to evaluation.

Interpretive Master Planning is the most comprehensive

reerence book on the subject, an invaluable resource

or designing interpretation that really works.

Few people combine the interpretive experience

and planning skills o John Veverka. Here is

knowledge based on years o national and

international interpretive planning projects...

This is a classic work by an author who does

interpretive planning every day.Gary R Moore, Program Coordinator, MetroParks,

Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.

Two volumes

654pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 64.90 | $104.90978-1-907697-23-4

978-1-907697-25-8

HB | 99.90 | $159.90

978-1-907697-24-1

978-1-907697-26-5

John Veverka is is one o the worlds

leading consultants in interpretive

planning and training.


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Social Design in Museums:The Psychology o Visitor Studies

Stephen Bitgood

This much-praised collection o essays is a two-volume,

928 page publication which distils the exceptional

insights and advice o one o the worlds leadingthinkers in the eld o visitor studies, Stephen Bitgood,

a pioneer in the eld o social design. Spanning

both theory and practice,Social Design in Museumsis guaranteed to have you thinking aresh about the

undamentals o your organisations interace with thepublic.

The books contents are crucial to an understanding

o the learning process within museums - and an

essential step towards enhancing your institutions

eectiveness. It brings together a selection o

Stephen Bitgoods key essays, complete with

contemporary updates, resulting in a practical,

comprehensive reerence handbook or proessionals

in those specialisms which contribute to eective

museum communication: including design, learning,

curatorship, visitor studies and marketing.

Steve Bitgoods ground-breaking results,

here gathered together in accessible orm, arerequired reading or all who care about visitors

and the application o objective knowledge to

the solution o practical problems.

Dr Roger Miles, ormerly Head o the

Department o Exhibitions & Education,

Natural History Museum, London.

Two volumes

928pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 95 | $149.90978-1-907697-19-7

978-1-907697-32-6

HB | 145 | $229.90

978-1-907697-20-3978-1-907697-33-3

Dr Stephen Bitgood is

Proessor Emeritus o Psychology at

Jacksonville State University.


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Creativity and Technology:Social Media, Mobiles and Museums

James E Katz, Wayne LaBar and Ellen Lynch (Editors)

This book brings together papers given at a major

conerence jointly organised by the Center or Mobile

Communication Studies at Rutgers University (the

worlds rst academic unit to ocus solely on social

aspects o mobile communication) and Liberty Science

Center (the New Jersey-New York City regions largest

education resource).

Presented by leading thinkers and museum experts,

the papers provide an incisive analysis o trends in

the use o mobile devices by museum audiences, with

a special ocus on outreach eorts to under-served

communities.

Mobile technologies have the potential torevolutionize the museum experience. This book

shares perspectives and ndings that will help

practitioners navigate this new learning terrain.

Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director or Museums,

Institute o Museum and Library Services,

Washington DC.

This important collection o essays delves into

a complex and exciting world, and makes a key

contribution to this developing eld.

Dr. Lynda Kelly, Head o Web and Audience

Research, Australian Museum, Sydney.

470pp | 216 x 140mm

eBook | 39.95 | $64.95

978-1-907697-43-2

PB | 49.95 | $79.95

978-1-907697-11-1

HB | 89.95 | $145.95

978-1-907697-12-8

Pro. James E Katz is Chair o the

Department o Communication atRutgers University; Wayne LaBar

is Principal o Alchemy Studio;

Ellen Lynch is Director o Exhibition

Development and Operations

at Liberty Science Center.


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The InterpretiveTraining HandbookStrategies, Tips, Handouts and Practical Learning

Experiences or Teaching Interpretation to Others

John A Veverka

Until now there has been no manual available

which addresses the key issues involved in teaching

interpretation to others. The Interpretive TrainingHandbooklls this gap. It distils the experience o

one o the worlds leading interpretive trainers, John

Veverka, and is based on his training techniques andexercises developed over three decades, and currently

used in his university level interpretation training

courses.

Designed or use with a wide range o specialist

sta - including interpretors, educators, designers,

curators, gallery explainers, guides and volunteers - in

museums, galleries, science centres, historic housesand sites, parks, zoos and commercial tours, the book

includes sample pre-and post-test exams that let you

check i your training is actually working.

Importantly, the techniques presented in the book are

proven to work in illustrating interpretive conceptsand principles. They are supplemented by a wealth o

orms, checklists, exercises, worksheets, lesson plans

and teaching aids designed to be reely copied and

used.

Interpretation training in a box! Its all here:

the principles, the ideas, the strategies - and

a wealth o practical and proven training

materials to reproduce and use.

200pp | 203 x 127mm

HB | 29.95 | $44.95

978-1-907697-36-4

John Veverka is is one o the worlds

leading consultants in interpretive

planning and training.


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SOCIALMEDIA

Conversations with Visitors:Social Media and Museums

Conversations with Visitors brings together or the

rst time in book orm a rich and varied international

collection o essays which examine this concept in

depth.

Contributors include leading social media specialists

rom museums in Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway,the UK and USA and the book covers such key issues as:

Developing A Social Media Strategy Measuring, Analysing and Reporting

Using Twitter For Research

The Design and Implementation o a Digital

Narrative

Social media is changing the workings o

our museums. Our hierarchical structure has

historically disseminated inormation rom

our experts to our visitors. The envisioned

twenty-rst century model, however, is more

level. Instead o a one-way presentation,

online visitors are oten interested in having

a conversation with our curators and content

providers. And many o us are joining our

traditional experts in representing ourinstitutions in these conversations. In response,

new media specialists have been looking or

ways to engage our public by designing and

using applications that encourage dialogue

Je Gates, Lead Producer, New Media Initiatives,

Smithsonian American Art Museum.

360pp | 203 x 127mm

eBook | 34.95 | $54.95

978-1-907697-42-5

PB | 39.95 | $59.95

978-1-907697-38-8

HB | 64.95 | $99.95

978-1-907697-37-1


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Contemporary Collecting:Theory and PracticeOwain Rhys

This important book deals succinctly and thoughtully

with the problems o collecting contemporary objects

in museums. It aims to provide a working modelor the uture o contemporary collecting based on

relevant debates and theories, and on past and current

practices.

It proposes answers some o the many challengingquestions raised:

What should we collect?

Who should decide?

How can we adequately record how we live our

lives today?

What about the storage implications?

What limits should we place on ourselves?

What processes and directives can ensure best

practice?

Owain Rhys shares his knowledge,

experience and vision with us in this excellent

and accessible publication. It is quite an

achievement that the issues are presented in an

accessible and comprehensible way.ICOM Committee on Collecting,

Comcol Newsletter.

The book is a treasure trove... a welcome

resource. History News,

American Association or State & Local History

168pp | 203 x 127mm

HB | 19.95 | $29.95

978-1-907697-34-0

Owain Rhys is Curator o

Contemporary Lie at St Fagans:

National History Museum,

in Cardi, Wales


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SOCIALM

EDIA

New Thinking:Rules or the (R)evolution o Museums

A Collection o Essays

This exciting collection o essays by leading

international museum practitioners ocuses on the

across-the-board innovations taking place in some othe worlds most orward-thinking museums and

charts the new directions museums will need to take

in todays increasingly challenging and competitiveenvironment.

Among the twenty world-class organisations sharing

their innovative experiences are: Canada Agriculture

Museum, Canadian Museum or Human Rights, Conner

Prairie Interactive History Park, Cooper-Hewitt National

Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Imperial

War Museum, Liberty Science Center, Miami Science

Museum, Museum o London, National Museum o

Denmark, Royal Collection Enterprises, Smithsonian

American Art Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum,

Wellcome Collection.

And among the stimulating and thought-provoking

topics covered are: Collective Conversations,

Conessions o a Long-Tail Visionary, Creating A Utopian

Experience, Crossing The Threshold: Design To Engage,Ethnographic Research: A Fresh Eye on Marketing, HowMuseums Speak, How To Increase Your Visitor Spend,

Interpreting the Second World War, Serving Children

When Parents Come Along, Souvenirs o Here: Diversity,Practical Museology, and Happiness.

416pp | 216 x 140mm

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The New Museum Community:Audiences, Challenges, Benets


In a series o authoritative essays, this important and

substantial book examines in depth how museums

globally are succeeding in many dierent ways inreaching and involving social groups traditionally

overlooked or excluded rom the museum experience.

The New Museum Community: Audiences, Challenges,

Benets is an invaluable and inspiring guide or any

museum, gallery or cultural organisation large orsmall intent on engaging with the broadest possible

audience.

Among the key topics covered are: Consulting the

Community; Cultural Mediators; Drivers or Change:

Capacity Building and Cultural Ownership; Guests are

our Heroes; Inclusive Without Knowing It; Involving

Teens with Autism; Learning on Field Trips;

Mainstreaming Outreach: Taking Audiences to the

Core; Museum Provision or Visually Impaired Visitors;

Participation and Personalisation; Reaching Multi-

Cultural Audiences Online; Social Media to Social

Impact; The Ignorant Museum; The Long-Term Impact

o Social Inclusion Initiatives; The Virtuous Circle:

Community Engagement; Urban Evolution; UsingCollections to Collaborate Artistically with People withLearning Disabilities.

512pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 49.95 | $79.95

978-0-9561943-7-4

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978-1-907697-02-9


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Sustainable Museums:Strategies or the 21st CenturyRachel Madan

How can museums remain resilient in uncertain

times? How can they thrive under changing economic,

legislative and cultural conditions? InSustainable

Museums: Strategies or the 21st Century, museumsustainability expert Rachel Madan covers new

territory or any museum that is interested in becoming

more sustainable. This is not a book about changing

light bulbs

Sustainable Museums provides a system enabling you

to start making transormational and lasting changes.

It will help you create a museum that is resilient,

condent and secure in its sustainability approach. As

well as lots o advice rom Rachel Madan, more than 35

illustrated case studies rom the UK and USA provide a

rich variety o experience and insights.

Among the key issues covered are: developing a

sustainability vision or your own museum; nding

and bringing your sustainability team together;

undertaking your sustainability audit; developing a

sustainability strategy or your museum; letting the

world know communicating sustainability; andovercoming the inevitable implementation problems

She [Rachel Madan] engenders resh thinking

and applies new solutions that are helping us

achieve real change

Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate.

382pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 44.95 | $74.95

978-1-907697-09-8

HB | 89.95 | $149.95

978-1-907697-12-8

Rachel Madan is currently

Sustainability Ofcer or the

International Finance Corporation,

part o the World Bank.

She was previously Director

o Greener Museums.


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The Power o the Object:Museums and World War IIEsben Kjeldbk (Editor)

This important book deals with key issues aecting

all history museums, taking as a starting point the

interpretation by museums o World War II. The

essays it contains are based on a conerence held bythe National Museum o Denmark, at which leading

international museum proessionals were invited to

speak.

Among the many key issues the contributors address

are:

How best can abstractions like cause, eect and

other ideas be interpreted through objects?

Just how is the role o objects within museums

changing?

How should we respond when increasingly

visitors no longer accept the curators choice o

objects and their interpretation?

How can museums deal eectively with

controversial historical issues?

And among the institutions whose exhibitions,

programmes and thinking eature are: Imperial War

Museum, London; Museum o the Danish Resistance,Copenhagen; Muse Royal de lArme, Bruxelles;Museum o Occupations, Tallinn; Camp Vught National

Museum, Netherlands; Canadian War Museum,

Ottawa; War Tunnels Museum, Jersey.

424pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 44.95 | $69.95

978-0-9561943-4-3

Esben Kjeldbk is Head o

The Museum o Danish Resistance,

National Museum o Denmark.


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Science Exhibitions: Curation and DesignAnastasia Filippoupoliti (Editor)

The rst o two companion volumes (available

separately) this book examines the creation and

development o science exhibitions in a variety onew and traditional media. With some 20 essays rom

leading practitioners in the eld, and over 500 pages, it

provides an authoritative, stimulating overview o new,innovative and successul initiatives. The essays draw

on cutting-edge experience throughout the world, and

include contributions rom Australia, Brazil, France,Germany, Singapore and New Zealand as well as the

UK and USA.

Filled with articles about dierent styles and

types o exhibitions... new ideas and inspiration.

We oten develop exhibitions with such

enthusiasm or the topic we know and love so

well. This book reminds us to take a small step

back and think o new, and sometimes old, ways

in which we can get the best out o our topic or

the public.

NatSCA News, Natural Sciences Collections

Association.

512pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 59.95 | $96.95

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978-1-907697-03-6

Dr Anastasia Filipoupoliti is a

Lecturer in Museum Education

at the Democritus University

o Thrace, Greece.


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Science Exhibitions:Communication and Evaluation

Anastasia Filippoupoliti (Editor)

The second o two companion volumes (available

separately), this book explores the communication and

evaluation o science exhibits in museums and science

centres.

Among the topics covered are: Art in Science Centres,

Science in a Historic House, Developing Interactive

Activities or Schools, The Interpretation o Dinosaurs,the Eectivness o Dioramas, and Critical Listening and

Exhibit Design. And among the organisations sharing

their experience are: English Heritage, Miami Science

Center, Museum Victoria (Australia), Museum o

Interactive Economics (MIDE, Mexico), New York Hall o

Science, and the Science Museum (London).

A great resource or the exhibition design team

to have.

Christine Hendry, Exhibition Design Manager,

Questacon National Science & Technology Centre,

Australia.

666pp | 216 x 140mm

eBook | 49.95 | $79.95

978-1-907697-15-9

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978-1-907697-07-4

Dr Anastasia Filipoupoliti is a

Lecturer in Museum Educationat the Democritus University

o Thrace, Greece.


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Narratives o Community:Museums and EthnicityEditor: Olivia Guntarik

This groundbreaking book brings together a

collection o essays on the revolution taking place in

museums around the world as they look anew at theways communities are represented. It highlights a

undamental shit occurring in 21st century museums:

how they conront existing assumptions about people,and the pioneering ways they work with specic

groups to narrate oral histories, tell stories and keepmemories rom the past alive.

The philosophical thread, woven through each

essay, expresses a rejection o popular claims that

minority people are necessarily silent, neglected

and ignorant o the processes o representation. This

book showcases contemporary museums as spaces o

dialogue, collaboration, reclamation and storytelling.

It acknowledges the radical eorts many museums

and communities make to actively engage with and

overthrow misconceptions, on the important subject o

race and ethnicity.

Among the innovative museum programmes eatured

are: Arican American Civil War Memorial FreedomFoundation and Museum; Ethnic Minority Museums,Peoples Republic o China; Galicia Jewish Museum,

Poland; McCord Museum o Canadian History,

Montreal; Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino; Museum oNew Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; National Museum o

American History, Smithsonian Institution; National

Museum o Singapore; Red Location Museum, SouthArica.

432pp | 216 x 140mm

PB | 44.95 | $64.95

978-1-907697-05-0

HB | 84.95 | $121.95

978-1-907697-06-7

Dr Olivia Guntarik teaches

in the School o Media and

Communication at RMIT University,

Australia. She writes regularly

on place, remembering

and cultural reection.


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Naturalistic PhotographyP H Emerson

P H Emersons Naturalistic Photographyis one o the

classics o photographic literature. This newly-designed

and typeset edition includes the complete text o

the denitive 1899 edition which includes additionalessays by Emerson, among them the controversial

Photography - Not Art. Written by one o the most

important book-makers amongst ninetheenth-centuryart photographers it provides a unique insight into

both photographic processes and photographicconcerns during this ormative period in the history o

photography.

Compared at the time to dropping a bombshell at a tea

party, Naturalistic Photographymarked the start o a

crusade against academism in artistic photography and

the beginning o the long transition into modernism.

Emerson has been called the Martin Luther o

photography (John Szarkowski), and more recently

one o the most virulent polemicists in the history

o photography (Thomas Galiot, Muse dOrsay).

His erce and trenchant writing is in sharp contrast

to the gentle, atmospheric images o his pioneering

photobooks such as Lie and Landscape on the NorolkBroads and what many regard as his masterpiece,

Marsh Leaves (1895), one o the most beautiul books

about isolation and solitude, perhaps death, ever

made (Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook: AHistory).

604pp | 203 x 127mm

PB | 49.95 | $79.95

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Creating Bonds:

Successul Marketing in MuseumsA Collection o Essays

International marketing proessionals working in

and with museums share their latest insights and

experiences o attracting and involving a wide range

o constituencies in this stimulating book. Whether

youre working with a world-class museum brand, orjust beginning to think through what marketing means

to your organisation, youll be stimulated, excited andenthused by the imaginative, original and very oten

inexpensive ideas packed into this book.

228pp | 198 x 129mm

PB | 25.95 | $39.95 | 978-0-9561943-2-9

Rethinking Learning:Museums and Young People


Practical, inspirational case studies rom senior

museum and gallery proessionals rom the UK, USA

and Europe clearly demonstrate how imaginative,responsive services or children and young people can

have a transormational eect on the museum and its

visitor prole as a whole.

240pp | 198 x 129mmeBook | 19.99 | $29.99 | 978-1-907697-16-6

PB | 24.99 | $41.45 | 978-0-9561943-0-5


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Inspiring Action:

Museums and Social ChangeA Collection o Essays

In this groundbreaking book, leading museum

proessionals contribute practical and inspiring essays

on how their institutions are responding to the new

social challenges o the 21st century.

320pp | 198 x 129mm

PB | 34.99 | $57.95 | 978-0-9561943-1-2

Alive To Change:Successul Retailing in Museums


Leading museum retail proessionals rom the UK

and the USA share the secrets o their success in this

highly practical series o essays. These are people whoare running some o the most successul, attractive,

protable museum shops around. This book will give

you a wealth o inspirational new ideas or ways youcan enhance your shops income and your customers

satisaction and help ull your museums aims andpolicies.

204pp | 198 x 129mm

PB | 18.95 | $32.95 | 978-0-9561943-3-6


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Cocktails and Culture:Cultivating Generation NextErin Barnes

A masterclass in building your museums uturebeneactors: some o the worlds most dynamic,

ar-sighted museums are enhancing their income

and securing their uture by linking with youngproessionals - that most afuent, inuential, sought-

ater demographic. The presenter in this recorded

seminar is independent consultant Dr Erin Barnes, who

has worked and researched extensively in this eld.

CD | PC & MAC | 90 minutes

67 | $97

Planning and Designingor Children and FamiliesVicky Cave & Heather Nielsen

Transorm your institution into a sought-aterdestination or amilies! two comprehensive

presentations cover: including your target audience in

the development process; designing in actors whichpositively inuence your visitors behaviour; what

elements children and amilies nd welcoming;

usingstory-building to positive eect; encouraging

communication within amilies; inlcuding the needs oyour audience eature in your exhibition planning.

CD | PC & MAC | 90 minutes

67 | $97


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