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On May 18th the worldwide community of museums celebrates\u00a0International Museum Day<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the enrichment of cultures, development of society, and cooperation and peace among people. For more information on the theme and calendar of events for this year’s observance,\u00a0visit the\u00a0International Council of Museums webpage<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
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Berghahn Journals is offering FREE access<\/strong> to Museum Worlds<\/a> until\u00a0May 25. Use code MuseumDay19. View redemption details<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

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\nAdvances in Research<\/a>Museum Worlds<\/em>\u00a0is a multidisciplinary, refereed, annual journal that publishes work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies, and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.<\/p>\n

We are offering FREE access<\/strong> to Museum Worlds<\/em> until\u00a0May 25. Use code MuseumDay19<\/strong>.View redemption details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Please see a range of our latest\u00a0titles and a key series on our\u00a0Museum Studies<\/a>\u00a0list:<\/h5>\n

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\"TheForthcoming in July 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

THE MUSEUM OF MANKIND<\/a>
\nMan and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
\nBen Burt<\/p>\n

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The Museum of Mankind<\/em> was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years\u2019 service with the Department 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.<\/p>\n

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\"TheTHE MAN WHO INVENTED AZTEC CRYSTAL SKULLS<\/a>
\nThe Adventures of Eug\u00e8ne Boban
\nJane MacLaren Walsh and Brett Topping<\/p>\n

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Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eug\u00e8ne Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.<\/p>\n

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\"PlayingPLAYING WITH THE PAST<\/a>
\nExploring Values in Heritage Practice
\nKate Clark<\/p>\n

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Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and old buildings, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past<\/em> is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.<\/p>\n

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\"FromFROM STOREROOM TO STAGE<\/a>
\nRomanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
\nAlexandra Urdea<\/p>\n

Volume 10,\u00a0Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage<\/em> traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use.<\/p>\n

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\"ViewsVIEWS OF VIOLENCE<\/a>
\nRepresenting the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials
\nEdited by J\u00f6rg Echternkamp and Stephan Jaeger<\/p>\n

Volume 19,\u00a0Spektrum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a very impressive collection that brings together a series of strong, substantial case studies arranged into two thematic sections that \u2013 in their strength and consistent quality \u2013 constitute a significant contribution to the field.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Gabriel Moshenska<\/strong>, University College London<\/p>\n

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\"PoliticsPOLITICS OF SCALE<\/a>
\nNew Directions in Critical Heritage Studies
\nEdited by Tuuli L\u00e4hdesm\u00e4ki, Suzie Thomas, and Yujie Zhu<\/p>\n

NEW SERIES<\/strong>:\u00a0Volume 1,\u00a0Explorations in Heritage Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Politics of Scale<\/em> offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.<\/p>\n

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Museums and Collections<\/a><\/em> Series<\/h5>\n

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As houses of memory and sources of information about the world, museums function as a dynamic interface between past, present and future. Museum collections are increasingly being recognized as material archives of human creativity and as invaluable resources for interdisciplinary research. Museums provide powerful forums for the expression of ideas and are central to the production of public culture: they may inspire the imagination, generate heated emotions and express conflicting values in their material form and histories. This series explores the potential of museum collections to transform our knowledge of the world, and for exhibitions to influence the way in which we view and inhabit that world. It offers essential reading for those involved in all aspects of the museum sphere: curators, researchers, collectors, students and the visiting public.<\/p>\n

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EXTINCT MONSTERS TO DEEP TIME<\/a>
\nConflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian’s Fossil Halls
\nDiana E. Marsh
\nForeword by Jennifer Shannon<\/em><\/p>\n

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Extinct Monsters to Deep Time<\/em> is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time.<\/p>\n

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\"TheVolume 10, OPEN ACCESS<\/p>\n

THE WITNESS AS OBJECT<\/a>
\nVideo Testimony in Memorial Museums
\nSteffi de Jong<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/em>In The Witness as Object, Steffi de Jong adds an important layer to [current] discussions by offering a comparative perspective on video testimonies as museum objects that are part of a broader, ideological narrative\u2026Although the focus of her work is on memorial museums\u2026”<\/em> \u2022 Reading Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"VisitorsVolume 9<\/p>\n

VISITORS TO THE HOUSE OF MEMORY<\/a>
\nIdentity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
\nVictoria Bishop Kendzia<\/p>\n

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Visitors to the House of Memory<\/em> is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum\u2019s evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history?<\/p>\n

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\"MuseumVolume 8, New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

MUSEUM WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA<\/a>
\nIssues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
\nAna Luisa S\u00e1nchez Laws<\/p>\n

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“The history of museums\u2019 use of digital technology and the web is fascinating to the historical researchers among us\u2026 Any public historian who works for an organization that is interested in digital history and dissemination of that history will \ufb01nd this volume important.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The Public Historian<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"TheVolume 7, In Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

THE ENEMY ON DISPLAY<\/a>
\nThe Second World War in Eastern European Museums
\nZuzanna Bogumi\u0142, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer and Maria Senina<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe study contains a multitude of interesting details and observations pertaining to various regimes of collective memory, the specifics of national and local commemorations, and the inclusion of contested past into the fabric of museum exhibitions.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"CoverMuseum Worlds<\/strong><\/a>
\nAdvances in Research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Museum Worlds is a multidisciplinary, refereed, annual journal that publishes work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies, and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.<\/p>\n

We are offering FREE access<\/strong> to Museum Worlds<\/em> until May 25. Use code MuseumDay19<\/strong>. View redemption details<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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High Comics Art: The Louvre and the Bande Dessin\u00e9e<\/em> <\/a>
\nMargaret C. Flinn<\/p>\n

Comic Art in Museums and Museums in Comic Art<\/a><\/em>
\nMichael D. Picone<\/p>\n

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\nInterdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reassembling Musicality: Critical Music in Reassembly on Tinos<\/a><\/em>
\nG Douglas Barrett<\/p>\n

The \u201cMangle\u201d of Human Practice: Museu do Amanh\u00e3\u2019s Artistic Staging as a Socioscientific Narrative on Climate Change<\/a><\/em>
\nRodanthi Tzanelli<\/p>\n

Imagining Futures of Energy: Views from Central Asia<\/a><\/em>
\nMarkus S. Schulz<\/p>\n

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On May 18th the worldwide community of museums celebrates\u00a0International Museum Day.\u00a0This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the enrichment of cultures, development of society, and cooperation and peace among people. For more information on the theme and calendar of events for this year’s observance,\u00a0visit the\u00a0International Council of Museums… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,107,581,401,1740,111,802,113,993,224,992,1771,462,121,545,550,1827,1821,1783,994,870,647,278,783,461,797,1799,1745,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12823"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20725,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions\/20725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}