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Museum Basics (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

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Museums all through 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 continuously restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has due to this fact been produced for the many museums world wide 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 want to gain a full understanding of work within a museum.

Drawing from a variety 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 utilized 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 up to date and extended to take account of the many changes that have occurred on the planet of museums in the last five years. It includes over 100 new diagrams supporting the text, a glossary, sources of information and enhance as well as a select bibliography. Museum Basics is also now supported by its own companion website providing a variety of additional resources for the reader.


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