Transforming Author Museums

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered aro

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomen

A detailed look at how South Africa's museum present the nation's past, and how they can serve as a lens for examining changes in South African society at large

Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to dep

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and nar

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return th

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary societ

In his book, Graham Black argues that museums must transform themselves if they are to remain relevant to 21st century audiences – and this root and branch ch

This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis o

Less tangible than melting polar glaciers or the changing social conditions in northern societies, the modern Arctic represented in writings, visual images and