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Routledge Research in Museum Studies


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This series presents the latest research from right across the field of museum studies. It is not confined to any particular area, or school of thought, and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world.

To submit proposals, please contact the Routledge Editor, Heidi Lowther ([email protected])

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The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums Useful Heritage in the British Isles, Iceland, and Norway

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums: Useful Heritage in the British Isles, Iceland, and Norway

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By Guðrún D. Whitehead
August 09, 2024

The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, England and Norway. Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of ...

Human Rights Museums Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice

Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice

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By Jennifer Carter
May 27, 2024

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime have led to the emergence of a new museological genre: the human rights museum. Presenting innovative field research conducted in new and emerging human ...

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense: The Use of Screenwriting Techniques in Curatorial Practice

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By Ariane Karbe
May 27, 2024

Museum Exhibitions and Suspense takes insights from screenwriting to revolutionise our understanding of exhibition curating. Despite all genuine efforts to reach broader audiences, museums persistently fear riskingtheir credibility by becoming ‘too popular’. Thus, the enormous potential to learn ...

Time and the Museum Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality

Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality

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By Jen A. Walklate
May 27, 2024

Time and the Museum: Literature, Phenomenology, and the Production of Radical Temporality, is the first explicit in-depth study of the nature of museum temporality. It argues as its departure point that the way in which museums have hitherto been understood as temporal in the scholarship - as ...

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value

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Edited By Howard Morphy, Robyn McKenzie
September 25, 2023

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes. Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding ...

Museums and Technologies of Presence

Museums and Technologies of Presence

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Edited By Maria Shehade, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
September 15, 2023

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence and as vehicles for offering new, immersive, and embodied visitor experiences. This edited ...

Curating Lively Objects Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines

Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines

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Edited By Lizzie Muller, Caroline Seck Langill
May 31, 2023

Curating Lively Objects explores the role of things as catalysts in imagining futures beyond disciplines for museums and exhibitions. Authors describe how their curatorial collaborations with diverse objects, from rocks to robots, generate new ways of organising and sharing knowledge. Bringing ...

Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites

Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites

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Edited By Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
May 31, 2023

Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites demonstrates that museums and historic spaces are increasingly becoming "backdrops" for all sorts of appropriations and interventions that throw new light upon the objects they comprise and the pasts they reference. Rooted in new scholarship ...

Theorizing Equity in the Museum Integrating Perspectives from Research and Practice

Theorizing Equity in the Museum: Integrating Perspectives from Research and Practice

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Edited By Bronwyn Bevan, Bahia Ramos
May 31, 2023

Theorizing Equity in the Museum integrates the perspectives of learning researchers and museum practitioners to shed light on the deep-seated structures that must be accounted for if the field is to move past aspirations and rhetoric and towards more inclusive practices.  Written during a time ...

Museums, International Exhibitions and China's Cultural Diplomacy

Museums, International Exhibitions and China's Cultural Diplomacy

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By Da Kong
January 09, 2023

Museums, International Exhibitions and China’s Cultural Diplomacy examines the role museums and, more specifically, international exhibitions, have played in shaping China’s international image to date. Drawing on theories and methods from museum studies and international relations, the book ...

Museums, Refugees and Communities

Museums, Refugees and Communities

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By Domenico Sergi
January 09, 2023

Museums, Refugees and Communities explores the ways in which museums in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK have responded to the complexities and ethical dilemmas involved in discussing the reasons for, and issues surrounding, contemporary refugee displacements. Building upon an ethnographic study...

The Changing Museum A History of New Walk Museum

The Changing Museum: A History of New Walk Museum

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By Clive Gray
November 01, 2022

Using the example of New Walk Museum, Leicester, and its collections, the complexity, multi-causality, and reasons for change in museums are examined and explained. The 170 years history of New Walk provides an original basis and innovative approach to be adopted towards explaining museum change. ...

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