Museums & museology

Museum Basics

by Timothy Ambrose

Description

Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has therefore been produced for the many museums worldwide that operate with limited resources and few professional staff. The comprehensive training course provided within the book is also suitable for museum studies students who wish to gain a full understanding of work within a museum.Drawing from a wide range of practical experience, the authors provide a basic guide to all aspects of museum work, from audience development and education, through collections management and conservation, to museum organisation and forward planning. Organised on a modular basis with over 110 Units, Museum Basics can be used as a reference work to assist day-to-day museum management and as the key textbook in pre-service and in-service training programmes. It is designed to be supplemented by case studies, project work and group discussion.This third edition has been fully updated and extended to take account of the many changes that have occurred in the world of museums in the last five years. It includes over 100 new diagrams supporting the text, a glossary, sources of information and support as well as a select bibliography. Museum Basics is also now supported by its own companion website providing a wide range of additional resources for the reader.

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Taylor and Francis

Taylor and Francis

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Bibliographic Information

  • Imprint Routledge
  • Publication Date April 2012
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9780415619349 / 0415619343
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatPaperback
  • Pages504
  • ReadershipCollege - higher education
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Responsibilityby Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine.
  • Edition3rd edition
  • IllustrationIllustrations
  • Biblio NotesPrevious ed.: 2006.
  • SeriesThe Heritage Care Preservation Management
  • Reference CodeBDZ0012989202

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