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Manufacturer: Times Books
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: Robin Duthy
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Publisher: Times Books
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Publication Date: 1978
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Reading Level: 271
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Price: $135.00
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Sale: $112.34
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Hooper-Greenhil
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.15
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Publication Date: 1994-04-08
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and more adept at providing enjoyable and worthwhile experiences. Museums and their Visitors aims to help museums and galleries in this crucial task. It examines the ways in which museums need to develop their communicative functions and, with examples of case-studies, explains how to achieve best practice. The special needs of a number of target audiences including schools, families, and people with disabilities are outlined and illustrated by examples of exhibition, education and marketing policies. The book looks in detail at the power of objects to inspire and stimulate and analyzes the use of language in museums and galleries.
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Price: $32.50
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Sale: $44.94
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Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Norris
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Publisher: McFarland & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 625.107473
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Publication Date: 1996-03
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Reading Level: 307
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Description: Over 300 railroad museums, restored depots, and special, nostalgic excursions available to the general public here. Each entry provides a comprehensive description. Also given are the hours of operation and the cost of the event, along with addresses and phone numbers needed for further information.
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Price: $263.00
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Sale: $257.65
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: A. Unger::A.P. Schniewind::W. Unger
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 702.88
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Publication Date: 2001-10-16
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Reading Level: 578
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Description: This handbook is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the history of wood conservation, on the structure and properties of wood, on organisms causing deterioration, on methods of diagnosis of wood condition, on materials and methods of wood preservation, on consolidation of deteriorated wood, and on wood adhesives. Although it provides many techniques of wood conservation in detail, it goes far beyond the scope of a "recipe book" by giving an overview of the use of particular materials and methods as they apply to dry as well as wet or waterlogged wood. Access to the enormous wealth of information is facilitated by separate indexes for trade names, pests, and conservation materials. The latter, together with their methods of application, were gathered from the literature and organized chronologically. For liquid preservatives, fumigants, and consolidants, these listings are preceded by important data on each of the materials.
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Price: $54.95
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Sale: $43.37
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Trevor Keeble
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 747.09034074
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Publication Date: 2006-06-23
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Reading Level: 196
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Description: How does one turn a house containing artworks into a museum? How does one narrate the story of the lives that were lived there? How authentic can a retrospective reconstruction of interior spaces and their contents be?
The contributors of The Modern Period Room, drawn from a broad range of disciplines, consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstruction from a variety of different viewpoints. Beneath the conceptual and physical strategy of the representational technique of the modern period room lie numerous conflicting intentions.
This collection of essays by design historians, architects and curators engages with these tensions. The authors explore themes and examples by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Truus Schroeder and Gerrit Rietveld, Ernö Goldfinger and others in a bid to reveal the specific cultural encoding of presented interior spaces.
The book's critical engagement with the issues and conventions which surround the modern period room will allow historians and theorists of architecture, design and social history to investigate the contexts in which this representational device has been used. The various models of period room enables the reader to understand just how dynamic, contributory and ultimately interventionist the presentation of the period room is in the process of architectural and design history making.
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Price: $43.95
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Sale: $35.53
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.69
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Publication Date: 2007-12-03
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The use of new media in the service of cultural heritage is a fast growing field, known variously as virtual or digital heritage. New Heritage, under this denomination, broadens the definition of the field to address the complexity of cultural heritage such as the related social, political and economic issues. This book is a collection of 20 key essays, of authors from 11 countries, representing a wide range of professions including architecture, philosophy, history, cultural heritage management, new media, museology and computer science, which examine the application of new media to cultural heritage from a different points of view. Issues surrounding heritage interpretation to the public and the attempts to capture the essence of both tangible (buildings, monuments) and intangible (customs, rituals) cultural heritage are investigated in a series of innovative case studies.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $34.88
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Belcher M
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 708
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Publication Date: 1993-07-17
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Reading Level: 248
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $34.00
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Louise Ravelli
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 2006-01-20
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Reading Level: 182
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Description: Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:
* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?
* Why do some choice in language make a more direct relation to visitors?
* Is there a correct way of presenting a particular view of content?
* How do design practices contribute to the overall meanings being made?
The frameworks enhances the way we critically analyze and understand museums text, both in the sense of conventional written texts in museums and in an expanded sense of the museum as a whole operating as a communicative text.
Using a wide range of examples to demonstrate that all communication needs to be understood in relation to its social context, Ravelli argues that communication contributes fundamentally to what a museum is, who it relates to and what it stands for.
Not only museum studies and communications studies students, but also professionals in the field will find Museum Texts an indispensable guide on communication frameworks.
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $29.38
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Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kylie Message
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Publisher: Berg Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 2007-01-24
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicisation of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements of the "event exhibit"all have changed the way any new museum is built, operates and serves its public purpose. Museums now reflect global economics and local politics. New museums now shape our public culture. Illustrated with a very wide range of museums and museum spaces - from MOMA in New York to the reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC to the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, from the planned renewal of the Crystal Palace site in London to the Sendai Mediatheque in Japan - the book reveals how the new museum is evolving as a cross-disciplinary, self-consciously political, and often avowedly self-reflexive institution.
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Price: $113.00
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Sale: $113.00
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Manufacturer: Butterworth Heinemann
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.5
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Publication Date: 1992-09-21
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Reading Level: 756
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