Tag: Museum

Free Download The Museum in Asia (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)
by Yunci Cai
English | 2025 | ISBN: 036741564X | 328 Pages | True PDF | 7.74 MB

Free Download Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections: The (Un)Making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands
by Mirjam Shatanawi
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9004688412 | 286 Pages | PDF | 107 MB

Free Download Annika Bünz, "Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative: Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Commu"
English | ISBN: 1800733887 | 2022 | 206 pages | PDF | 72 MB
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 narratives originate. The museum can thereby be directly linked to the site and its history. It is therefore vital to investigate the maritime museums in terms of relationships between landscape, architecture, museum and collections. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.

Free Download Felicity Bodenstein, "Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return "
English | ISBN: 1800734239 | 2022 | 306 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

Free Download Ben Burt, "The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department "
English | ISBN: 1789203023 | 2019 | 172 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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 a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum.

Free Download Ruthann Godollei, "Road Show: Art Cars and the Museum of the Streets"
English | ISBN: 1933108177 | 2009 | 160 pages | PDF | 23 MB
The automobile has long been a symbol of status, power, and autonomy, and ever since King Tut rolled through Egypt on his golden-wheeled chariot, artists and drivers have dreamed up mobile masterpieces. A striking photographic tribute and social history, Road Show navigates a path across high and low art, showing how people around the world are transforming their vehicles into stunning folk art, obsessive collections, social commentary, and visionary performances. In this fascinating showcase, we see how Henry Ford’s motto, "Any color as long as it’s black," has been hung out to dry. From the Wienermobile to a hand-carved wooden Ferrari that drives in the canals of Venice to a giant red stiletto heel, Road SHow brings the "museum of the streets" to life.

Free Download Paul Nicholson, "The British Museum: Dictionary of Ancient Egypt"
English | 2002 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 9774247620, 0714119539 | PDF | 144,4 mb
This successful and highly-esteemed British Museum reference work is now republished in a new pocket-sized edition. This authoritative illustrated dictionary provides clear explanations and descriptions of the important ideas, events and personalities throughout four thousand years of Egyptian civilization. More than 600 extensively cross-referenced and comprehensively-indexed A-Z entries provide detailed information on all aspects of ancient Egypt and Nubia during the pharaonic and Graeco-Roman periods. Each entry is followed by a bibliography. The dictionary is lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs, line drawings, site plans and maps.

Free Download Anelka Grigoryan, "History Museum of Armenia: Permanent Expositions"
English | ISBN: 9939917201 | 2018 | 151 pages | PDF | 67 MB
The illustrated album-guidebook presents brief historical information and exhibited materials for each of the main thematic halls at the History Museum of Armenia from the Old Stone Age to this day.

Free Download Louvre Museum Travel Guide 2024-2025: The Ultimate Visitor’s Handbook to Explore Art, History, and Culture by Piper Traveler
English | August 15, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DDCNZ4DY | 103 pages | EPUB | 3.67 Mb
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Free Download Moving the Moon: A Night at the Acropolis Museum
by Andrea Marcolongo and Will Schutt
English | 2024 | ASIN: B0CTLWW817 | 144 Pages | ePUB | 1.53 MB