Museum Studies
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How to Visit an Art Museum: The Expanded Edition
$19.99 Add to cartHow to Visit an Art Museum shows you the sense and nonsense of museum etiquette. The original edition became a bestseller, inspiring thousands of readers worldwide to pursue a truly rewarding museum v… [more below]
- Author: Idema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9063697279
- Language: English
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Exhibiting for Multiple Senses: Art and Curating for Sensory-Diverse Bodies
$35.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking study of the practices and implications of multisensory art and curation
Published with PLURAL Series.
Artists and curators have long moved beyond the primacy of the visual in art exhi- Author: Fotiadi, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9493246485
- Language: English
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What Are Museums For?
$13.95 Add to cartThe days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on d
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Sleigh, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1529231396
- Language: English
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Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums
$35.00 Add to cart‘Eloquent and powerful … an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, bu
- Author: Adjei, Sela K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 745349528
- Language: English
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Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art World
$24.99 Add to cartThis debut book by the popular collaborative team–heralded as one of the first truly new critical voices of the 21st century– blends real-world experience and poignant storytelling into a provocativ… [more below]
- Author: Puente, Gabrielle de la
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3791380214
- Language: English
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
$18.99 Add to cartA best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London).
An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press)- Author: Bringley, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1982163313
- Language: English
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Here, Now and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest
$34.95 Read more“In these pages are the words of Native peoples of the Southwest remembering the thoughts and perceptions of our ancestors in which the beauty of life and place is acknowledged. They talk about the em… [more below]
- Author: McBrinn, Maxine E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0890136742
- Language: English
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Ways of Curating
$18.00 Read moreThe world’s most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft
Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Sin- Author: Obrist, Hans Ulrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535698
- Language: English
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A Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time
$19.95 Read moreHave you ever visited a museum and found the narrations in the self-guided-tour headsets a bit tedious? Slightly too clinical, perhaps? And have you ever noticed that God is rarely mentioned in art mu
- Author: Auth, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 164413716X
- Language: English
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Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History
$45.00 Read moreA critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museums
This volume gathers commissioned essays, interviews and visual contributions from artists and
- Author: Razian, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 6148035456
- Language: English
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The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues
$25.00 Read moreThe world’s leading museum directors discuss the future of museums in the wake of 2020’s pandemic and social upheavals
2020 ushered in a new decade and with it a series of unforeseen events that have r
- Author: Szántó, András
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 377574827X
- Language: English
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Why the Museum Matters
$26.00 Read moreA powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future
Art museums have played a vital role in ou- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Weiss, Daniel H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0300259352
- Language: English
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The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about It
$14.99 Add to cartIf you think art history has to be pale, male and stale – think again.
From the
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to ‘decolonise’ our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?- Author: Procter, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1788402456
- Language: English
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The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
$45.00 Add to cartCelebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges
On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Daz- Author: Redman, Samuel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1479809330
- Language: English
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Why the Museum Matters
$18.00 Add to cartA powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future
Art museums have played a vital role in ou- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Weiss, Daniel H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276850
- Language: English
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
$28.99 Add to cartA best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London).
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its- Author: Bringley, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1982163305
- Language: English
