The Long Way Home

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 2
• Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. S... Lees meer

Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough

Jeffrey Abt

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 17
• Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively re-cent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish... Lees meer

Museum Times

Leslie Witz

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 16
• Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sou... Lees meer

The Museum of Mankind

Ben Burt

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 12
• The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is... Lees meer

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Diana E Marsh

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 11
• Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. De... Lees meer

Colonial Collecting and Display

Claire Wintle

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 4
• In the late-nineteenth century, British travelers to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands compiled wide-ranging collections of material culture for scienti... Lees meer

The Enemy on Display

Zuzanna Bogumil, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 7
• Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dres... Lees meer

Museum Websites and Social Media

Ana Sánchez Laws

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 8
• Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust buildi... Lees meer

Visitors to the House of Memory

Victoria Bishop Kendzia

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 9
• As one of the most visited museums in Germany's capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history,... Lees meer

Contested Holdings

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 14
• Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of... Lees meer

Exchanging Objects

Catherine A Nichols

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 12
• As an historical account of the exchange of "duplicate specimens" between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and ... Lees meer

Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen, Kerstin Poehls

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 6
• Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalizat... Lees meer

Borders of Belonging

Mads Daugbjerg

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 5
• In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, "the nation" as a collective reference point and ... Lees meer

Visitors to the House of Memory

Victoria Bishop Kendzia

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 9
• As one of the most visited museums in Germany's capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history,... Lees meer

The Witness as Object

Steffi de Jong

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 10
• In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering... Lees meer

The Future of Indigenous Museums

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 1
• Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a numb... Lees meer

The Witness as Object

Steffi de Jong

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 10
• In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering... Lees meer

Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative

Annika Bünz

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 15
• A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collectio... Lees meer

The Enemy on Display

Zuzanna Bogumil, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 7
• Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dres... Lees meer

Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen, Kerstin Poehls

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 6
• Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalizat... Lees meer

Transforming Author Museums

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 13
• Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author's home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage cent... Lees meer

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Diana E Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 11
• Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. De... Lees meer

The Lives of Chinese Objects

Louise Tythacott

• Hardcover | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 3
• This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-ce... Lees meer

The Future of Indigenous Museums

Nick Stanley

• Paperback | Engels | Museums and Collections | nr. 1
• Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a numb... Lees meer