The Leicester Companions to Museum Studies series focuses on the publication of new collections that globally shape, overview and reflect contemporary thought and practice. The series welcomes proposals from prospective editors, wherever they may be, who seek to meet the series’ objectives:
The series is the latest iteration of the Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, launched in 1994 under the editorship of Professor Susan Pearce, the then-Head of the Department of Museum Studies. Each volume in the first series of Readers had as its basis the study packs of published materials produced by the Department for students in the late 1980s. It was determined that each volume should have a strong editorial vision, expressed in a significant introductory essay and in section introductions. Professor Eilean Hooper-Greenhill followed Sue Pearce as series editor. In between 2007 and 2019, Simon Knell became editor of a newly designed and more thematically diverse second and third series, inviting editors from outside the Leicester department.
If you have an idea for a book that you think would be appropriate for the series, please contact the current Series Editor, Sandra Dudley ([email protected]), to discuss further.
Edited
By Anne Fahy
December 22, 1994
Collections Management brings together leading papers exploring some of the major issues affecting collections management. Providing information about initiatives and issues for anyone involved in collections management, Fahy identifies the main issues relating to collecting and disposal of ...
Edited
By Gaynor Kavanagh
November 17, 1994
Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction. They can be places of great excitement and great boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are anything that the political climate and the imagination ...
Edited
By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill
April 23, 1999
Grounded in the solid strengths of its first edition, this updated and revised second edition, collates recent and important articles that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The Educational Role of the Museum has been entirely restructured and new papers have ...