{"id":8503,"date":"2018-05-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2025-05-06T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:47:26","slug":"celebrating-international-museum-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/celebrating-international-museum-day","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating International Museum Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The worldwide community of museums celebrates\u00a0International Museum Day<\/b><\/a> on and around 18 May each year.\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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To join the celebration, we’re offering a 25% discount <\/strong>on all Museum Studies titles<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0a limited time. Just visit our\u00a0webpage<\/a> and enter code IMD18<\/strong> at checkout.<\/h5>\n

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\nMuseum Worlds<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nAdvances in Research<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Museum Worlds: Advances in Research<\/em> 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.\u00a0Recommend to your Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Available soon, the forthcoming table of contents features an introductory chapter\u00a0by\u00a0Museum and Heritage Studies expert and sociologist\u00a0Tony Bennett.<\/a><\/p>\n

Berghahn Journals is offering free access to a selection of articles until\u00a0May 25\u00a0as part of the\u00a0International Museum Day Virtual Issue<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Please see a range of our latest\u00a0titles and a key series on our Museum Studies<\/a> list:<\/p>\n

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WINNER OF THE 2016 PROSE AWARD FOR ANTHROPOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n

EUROPEAN PRODUCTS
\nMaking and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus
\nGisela Welz<\/p>\n

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\u201cDespite modernization and growing tourism, regardless of class, [Cypriot society has retained social practices]; people are helpful and inviting. Visitors can enjoy much in this very good, well-written book, not the least being a very impressive culinary selection. For readers at all levels, and probably a number of individuals who are not academics or social scientists. Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"HAVING AND BELONGING<\/a>
\nHomes and Museums in Israel
\nJudy Jaffe-Schagen<\/p>\n

Volume 5, Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections between both spheres, which play similar roles by housing objects and generating social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight representative Israeli communities\u2014Chabad, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, Russian, Religious-Zionist, Christian Arab, and Muslim Arab\u2014it gives a powerful account of museums\u2019 role in state formation, proposing a new approach to collecting and categorizing particularly well-suited to societies in conflict.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS<\/a>
\nMeaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell
\nEdited by Liana Chua and Mark Elliott<\/p>\n

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“\u2026profound scholarly reflections on the distributed effects of Alfred Gell\u2019s endeavor to identify an anthropological theory of \u2026a captivating pendant piece to Gell\u2019s original publication. Itis not meant as a guidebook to understanding Gell\u2019s work; rather it is a collection of complex studies that capture distinct engagements with Gell\u2019s ideas around an anthropology of art.”<\/em> \u00b7 Material World<\/strong><\/p>\n

This volume brings together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency<\/em>, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of Gell\u2019s work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and humanities. .<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Adventures in the Art Nexus<\/a><\/p>\n

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FROM ANTIQUITIES TO HERITAGE<\/a>
\nTransformations of Cultural Memory
\nAnne Eriksen<\/p>\n

Volume 1, Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cEriksen is a lucid writer. Her case studies are highly informative and reveal a detailed knowledge of Norway\u2019s past that few scholars could match.\u201c<\/em> \u00b7 Museum Anthropology<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present. This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge about early modern antiquarianism.<\/p>\n

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EXTREME COLLECTING<\/a><\/p>\n

Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums
\nEdited by Graeme Were and J. C. H. King<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe learn a lot [in this volume] about how museums think and work and by implication the self-representation of societies.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie sociale<\/strong><\/p>\n

By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting \u2018difficult\u2019 objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Extreme Collecting:<\/a><\/strong> Dealing with Difficult Objects<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"WORLD HERITAGE ON THE GROUND<\/a>
\nEthnographic Perspectives
\nEdited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner<\/p>\n

Volume 28, EASA Series<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> UNESCO World Heritage \u2013 Grounded?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Museums and Collections<\/em> Series<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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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Volume 10<\/p>\n

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

With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the “musealization” of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.<\/p>\n

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Volume 9<\/p>\n

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

Visitors to the House of Memory<\/em> is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for cross-disciplinary discussion. It is a resource for museum staff, students, designers, and researchers working at the intersection of cultural institutions and digital technologies.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Volume 7 Available in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

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

This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0The Enemy on Display<\/a><\/td>\n

Volume 6 Available in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

EXHIBITING EUROPE IN MUSEUMS<\/a><\/strong>
\nTransnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
\nWolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen and Kerstin Poehls
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This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Exhibiting Europe? Europeanisation as Cultural Practice<\/a><\/td>\n

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BORDERS OF BELONGING<\/a><\/strong>
\nExperiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site
\nMads Daugbjerg<\/p>\n

This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish\/German borderland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For a full list of titles in the series please visit the webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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