Museum Administration and Museology
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
$21.99 Add to cartThe Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123435
- Language: English
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What Are Museums For?
$13.95 Add to cartThe days when museums were dusty, stuffy institutions displaying their wealth and wisdom to a reverential public are over. Museums today are a cultural battleground. Who should decide what is put on d
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Sleigh, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1529231396
- Language: English
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Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums
$35.00 Add to cart‘Eloquent and powerful … an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, bu
- Author: Adjei, Sela K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 745349528
- Language: English
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
$29.99 Add to cartThe Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021403
- Language: English
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
$18.99 Add to cartA best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and The Sunday Times (London).
An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press)- Author: Bringley, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1982163313
- Language: English
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The Artist’s Estate: A Handbook for Artists, Executors, and Heirs
$40.00 Read moreHow to manage an artist’s estate in the 21st century, with case studies from the estates of de Kooning, Judd, Mapplethorpe and more
Andy Warhol memorably said that “death can really make you look like
- Author: Wurtenberger, Loretta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3775753370
- Language: English
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Every Picture Hides a Story: The Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seductive
$26.00 Read moreEach year 11 million people trek to the Louvre to gawk at the Mona Lisa. Many visitors clutch guide books in hand describing the painting. For some, it’s the experience of a lifetime, one they’ll talk… [more below]
- Author: Cane, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1538161362
- Language: English
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
$25.95 Read moreA field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States–and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future
Cultural- Author: Hass, Kristin Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006718
- Language: English
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Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide
$39.95 Read moreAmerican Indian cultural objects, like most objects, deteriorate over time. Precious and irreplaceable pieces of a people’s heritage can turn to dust, either slowly or rapidly, depending upon their co… [more below]
- Author: Ogden, Sherelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 16 2004
- ISBN10: 0873515056
- Language: English
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The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
“If you care about museums and the world, read this book”–New York Times
“Urgent, lucid, and brilliantly enraged…a long-awaited treatise on justi- Author: Hicks, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0745346227
- Language: English
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
$28.99 Add to cartA best book of the year from New York Public Library, NPR, the Financial Times, Book Riot, and the Sunday Times (London).
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its- Author: Bringley, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1982163305
- Language: English
