Svenskt kulturarv kan man tänka på som ett slags mentalt universum. Ett inre landskap av berättande som ständigt förändras, från mormors läsning i folkskolans läsebok till digitalt berättande idag. Jag har runt om i landet mött människor som berätta…

Svenskarna är ett museiälskande folk. Museerna har många fler årliga besök än Allsvenskan, Globen och Melodifestivalen tillsammans. Dessa publikmagneter är samtidigt komplexa samhällsinstitutioner som inte bara skapar, förvaltar och ställer ut kultu…

Under andra världskriget flydde fler än 30 000 människor från de ockuperade baltiska staterna över Östersjön till Sverige. Än idag finns de unika spåren av dessa dramatiska händelser kvar längs nästan hela den svenska ostkusten. Här hittar vi de mer…

På fjället och i skogarna i Sverige och Norge betar fortfarande kor och getter med skällor som pinglar. De är inte så många som de en gång var under fäbodbrukets glansdagar, men de finns fortfarande. I de norska fjällen betar dessutom ett stort anta…

Under det senaste seklet har samhällsutvecklingen formats av migration. Sverige har gått från att vara ett utvandrarland till ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Hur gick det till när berättelser om migration, mångkultur och de invandrades erfarenheter ble…

Utstillinger er i dag bare ett av mange medier kultur- og naturhistoriske museer kan bruke for å formidle kunnskap, skape opplevelser og kommunisere med publikum. Men fremdeles er de museenes foretrukne form for formidling. I en tid med mange nye, a…

What do major artists consider their best kept secret? What is regarded as confidential knowledge among the key players of the global art market? In 100 Secrets of the Art World the most powerful international individuals share their insights with y…

'The Curator's Egg' traces the growth of the museum concept from the opening of the Louvre to the current popularity of buildings by 'starchitects'. Encompassing curatorial, scholarly, political and cultural spheres, author Karsten Schubert addresse…

Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in the global art market; the proliferation of international art fairs, biennials and blockbuster exhibi…

Art and the Global Economy analyzes major changes in the global art world that have emerged in the last twenty years including structural shifts in the global art market; the proliferation of international art fairs, biennials and blockbuster exhibi…

Beverly Serrell presents the reader with excellent guidelines on the process of exhibit label planning, writing, design, and production. One of the museum field's leading consultants and label writers, Serrell's 1996 edition of Exhibit Labels has be…

Beverly Serrell presents the reader with excellent guidelines on the process of exhibit label planning, writing, design, and production. One of the museum field's leading consultants and label writers, Serrell's 1996 edition of Exhibit Labels has be…

With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Fash…

Discovery is central to academic activities at all levelsand is a major focus for libraries and museums. Of all the parts of modern libraryprovision, discovery services are the most clearly affected by developments inIT, from databases to search eng…

How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing hardened into accepted categorie…

Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums...we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How di…

Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums...we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How di…

Jämställdhetsfrågor kan tyckas vara självklara inslag i museernas utställningar, men mångfaldsarbete kring genus och HBTQ-frågor möts ibland av motstånd. Samlingssystemen är tungrodda och bristande funktioner resulterar i osynliggjorda berättelser.…

Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surrounding…

Today's science museums descend from the Kunst-und Wunderkammern of the Renaissance-collectors' private cabinets of curiosities-through the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851 to today's "interactive" exhibits promising educational fun. In this book,…

For more than ten years, The Science for Conservators Series has provided the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic to the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or n…

Odlade växter kan leva kvar i naturen långt efter att händerna som planterade och skötte dem är borta. Sådana kvarstående växter kan hjälpa oss att hitta platser där människor bott även när andra spår saknas. De kan också tillföra information som in…

Under 1990-talet kom ordet kulturarv att användas för att beskriva samhällets förmåga, vilja och praktiker för att bevara och använda företeelser ur det förflutna. I Sverige, liksom i Europa, genomfördes under denna tid flera politiskt initierade sa…

Människans nyttjande av markerna har skrivits in i träd och buskar som i en levande historiebok. Spår av lövtäkt, bete och andra aktiviteter kan läsas i trädens och buskarnas växtsätt så länge de lever – ja, ibland till och med längre än så. D…

For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no sc…

Norske museer skal formidle kunnskap og fortellinger som gir mening for folk i samtid og framtid. De skal presentere samfunnet slik det er og har vært, samt påvirke samfunnsutviklingen i bestemte retninger. Museene må gjenspeile vår tids kulturelle…

Norske museer skal formidle kunnskap og fortellinger som gir mening for folk i samtid og framtid. De skal presentere samfunnet slik det er og har vært, samt påvirke samfunnsutviklingen i bestemte retninger. Museene må gjenspeile vår tids kulturelle…

***New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020***Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin.…

For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators Series have been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no s…

For more than ten years, the Science for Conservators Series have been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no s…

Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence…

Spectrum innehåller väl beprövade råd för de arbetsuppgifter som de flesta museer utför när de förvaltar sina samlingar. Vissa av dessa arbetsuppgifter utförs dagligen, som att flytta objekt eller uppdatera information om objektets placering. Andra…

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as:How and w…

Museenes samfunnsoppdrag inkluderer i dag arbeid med følsomme og tabubelagte tema som folk flest ikke kjenner til eller ikke vil kjenne til. Museene blir oppfordret til å opptre som aktive samfunnsaktører som skal peke på områder i dagens samfunn so…

Marketing for Cultural Organizations presents traditional marketing theory with a focus on the aspects most relevant to arts or cultural organizations. The book explains how to overcome the division between the concepts of high art and popular cultu…

Marketing for Cultural Organizations presents traditional marketing theory with a focus on the aspects most relevant to arts or cultural organizations. The book explains how to overcome the division between the concepts of high art and popular cultu…

Nordiska museets huvudbyggnad på Djurgården i Stockholm är ett arkitektoniskt landmärke. Den väldiga huskroppen syns på långt håll från alla vinklar och närmare inpå framträder spännande detaljer i uttryck, material och hantverk. Arkitekten Isak Gus…

The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential ref…

The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential ref…

This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking's ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further inves…

This is the second edition of John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking's ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further inves…

Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visitor…

Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visitor…

Judiska museet i Stockholm är litet till ytan men har stor spännvidd och djup i sina program. Museet har lyft fram aktuella ämnen, presenterat människor och judiskt liv ur olika synvinklar samt väckt intresse för det judiska kulturarvet långt utanfö…

Det biologiska kulturarvet utgör levande avtryck av mänsklig aktivitet. Konsten att förstå vad arter och biologiska strukturer berättar bygger på att man kombinerar biologisk kunskap med kunskap om människans användning av ekosystemen. Ofta tillför…

The Curator's Handbook is the essential practical handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping out every stage of the exhibition-making process from initial idea to final installation. In his introduction, Adrian George traces the history…

Dagens museer möter en snabbt föränderlig omvärld som ställer nya krav på verksamhet och anställda. Att utveckla museernas arbete i samklang med deras samhällsuppdrag kräver ett medvetet underhåll av personalens kompetens, grundat i de anställdas ku…

This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a thi…

This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a thi…

This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which thin…

This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which thin…

VILKA HAR MAKTEN ÖVER KULTURARVET? Makten över kulturarvet ligger inte bara i händerna på museer och andra offentliga institutioner, den ligger också i händerna på fastighetsägare, byggvaruhus, entreprenörer, kommunpolitiker och privatpersoner. Makt…

Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that…

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'I am overwhelmed by this book. It is an absolute masterpiece. A book of such beauty and profundity, of such poetry in its emotion and observation ... I found my sense of life transformed by her writing as I often find it…

En museiman lever inte gott på sin lön vilket dock kan uppvägas av resor och möten med intressanta människor såsom konstnärer, författare, filmskapare, ministrar, politiker och professorer. Ibland även arkeologer och kollegor från hela världen. Denn…

Överallt där människor levt eller färdats har vi påverkat växtligheten, medvetet eller indirekt. Floran kan därför berätta mycket om människans historia, om vi lär oss att tolka artförekomster och vegetation. Växtlighet finns nästan överallt under d…

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. * Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines a…

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. * Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines a…

The Digital Future of Museums: Conversations and Provocations argues that museums today can neither ignore the importance of digital technologies when engaging their communities, nor fail to address the broader social, economic and cultural changes…

The Digital Future of Museums: Conversations and Provocations argues that museums today can neither ignore the importance of digital technologies when engaging their communities, nor fail to address the broader social, economic and cultural changes…

Förr var det främst konstvetare som intresserade sig för äldre parker i allmänhet och de pampiga slottsparkerna från 1600- och 1700-talen i synnerhet. Numera är intresset för dessa kulturmiljöer betydligt bredare. Bland annat har äldre park- och trä…

This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries. With critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines and global experts, numerous examples from international cultural institutions are employed to illuminat…

This wide-ranging book explores the impact of marketization on the creative industries. With critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines and global experts, numerous examples from international cultural institutions are employed to illuminat…

For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in "blockbuster" exhibitions designed to draw crowds. But in the midst of this sea change, one largely unanswere…