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Price: $75.00
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Sale: $52.74
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Arthur MacGregor
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 707.5
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Publication Date: 2008-03-19
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: This fascinating book offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance and concluding with the great changes of the nineteenth century which would prove so influential to the museum movement of later years. Taking into account both individual collectors and public institutions, Arthur MacGregor covers topics such as the methods by which materials from both the manmade and natural world were selected and displayed, problems of preservation and presentation, the specialization of individual areas such as fine arts, antiquities or natural history, as well as the developments of the nineteenth century that brought such collections within the reach of a much wider public. With the aid of 200 images, this book offers for the first time a wide-ranging survey of this entire process as well as the changing preoccupations of collectors. |
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $31.50
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Manufacturer: Museum of New Mexico Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Shelby Jo-anne Tisdale
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Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 739.2708997079
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Publication Date: 2006-05-30
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Reading Level: 215
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Description: New Mexico art patron, Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewellery during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American artists of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum.
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Price: $36.00
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Sale: $28.80
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Manufacturer: Howells House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John, H. Falk::Lynn, D. Dierking
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Publisher: Howells House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.15
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Publication Date: 1992-05-15
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: The Museum Experience is the first book to take the "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit. It integrates the authors' original research with that from a wide variety of disciplines as well as museum and visitor studies ranging from science centers and zoos to art and natural history museums. Written in clear, non-technical style, The Museum Experience gives museum professionals a thorough introduction to what is known about why people go to museums, what they do there, and what they learn. This book is an essential reference for all museum professionals concerned with communicating with the public. It has been used widely for college coursed in the United States, Canada and the UK, and has been translated into Japanese, and Chinese.
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Price: $35.95
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Sale: $27.91
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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: Carol Duncan
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 708
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Publication Date: 1995-06-09
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Reading Level: 178
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Description: Public art museums have become necessary fixtures of every city or country with any claim to importance. Yet we have still to understand what happens in them. Civilizing Rituals treats art museums from a new perspective--as ritual settings in their own right and as cultural artifacts that are much more than neutral shelters for art.
Drawing from both anthropological and philosophical literature, Carol Duncan begins by exploring the idea of the art museum-as-ritual. She examines specific musuem rituals in the US, Britain and France including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musuem of Modern Art, the National Gallery in London, the Louvre and several donor memorials including the Frick Collection and the Morgan Library, not only in relation to their political and social contexts but also paying close attention to the details of the museum settings themselves.
Duncan illuminates the ways in which musuems engage their visitors in the performance of ritual scenarios and, through them, commmunicate and affirm ideas, values and social identities. Art museums emerge as significant objects of historical and art-historical inquiry, sites on which political power and social interests and the history of cultural forms visibly intersect.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $23.71
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Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael M. Ames
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Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1993-11
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Reading Level: 238
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nancy Moses
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.5
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Publication Date: 2007-11-28
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Reading Level: 178
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Description: Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the Oemployees onlyO doors to uncover the stories buried--along with the objects--in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world: the precarious balance of art, culture, and politics that keep items, for decades, lost in the museum.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $29.13
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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: Graham Black
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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: 2005-07-13
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Reading Level: 308
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Description: This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards. This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and building their audience base and includes:
* chapter introductions and discussion sections
* supporting case studies to show how ideas are put into practice
* a lavish selection of tables, figures and plates to support and illustrate the discussion
* boxes showing ideas, models and planning suggestions to guide development
* an up-to-date bibliography of landmark research. The Engaging Museum offers a set of principles that can be adapted toany museum in any location and will be a valuable resource for institutions of every shape and size, as well as a vital addition to the reading lists of museum studies students.
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Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jay Pridmore
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Publisher: Harry N Abrams
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Dewey Decimal Number: 607.477311
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Publication Date: 1997-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $7.95
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Sale: $5.50
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Manufacturer: Streetwise Maps
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Map
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Author: Streetwise Maps
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Publisher: Streetwise Maps
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Edition: Revised 2004
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
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Publication Date: 2004-03-01
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Reading Level: 1
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Description: Artwise Florence Museum Map - Laminated Museum Map of Florence, Italy - Streetwise Maps This map covers the following areas:
Main Florence Map 1:9,000
Florence Museum Index
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $37.09
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sherry Butcher-Younghans
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 703
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Publication Date: 1996-02-08
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects, and industrial magnates. These are the places, carefully saved and preserved, that represent a cultural heritage. Despite their popularity, it is not uncommon to find museums that are in poor repair, their collections neglected and their staffs grossly overworked. Many are run by well-meaning and hard-working volunteers who have little or no professional training. Often they survive on shoestring budgets and are able to present only limited programs. Serving both as a hands-on guide and reference, this book examines these problems, offering practical advice and solutions which can be easily implemented. Its useful "lessons" include governance, where to find help, care of collections, conservation, security, and interpretation--all designed to increase the professionalism of the historic house museum.
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