Museology

Museology, or museum studies (also known in older sources as museography), is the study of museums, museum curation, and how museums developed into their institutional role in education through social and political forces.

Museology Books

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience

Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning

A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)

Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections

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Quotes Tagged “Museology”

“ Where there is divergence, the distinctive cultural perspective of our society can illuminate unseen and even unconscious aspects of the other culture. There was gravity before Newton; there was economic determinism before Marx; there was sex before Freud. ”
― Jules David Prown

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“ Visitors say, 'Real shrunken heads! Wow! How were they made? By slitting the skin, taking out the skull and brains and steaming them with hot sand? Gross!' But what no one asks is: how did they get here? What are they doing hanging up in a university museum in the south of England? Once you start to answer that question, you realize that shrunken heads like these are a product as much of European curiosity, European taste and European purchasing power as they are of an archaic tribal custom. It ...more ”
― Frances Larson, Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

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