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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

The Participatory Museum
Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
Making Museums Matter
Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience
A Companion to Museum Studies (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies)
Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning
The Manual of Museum Exhibitions
Museum Registration Methods
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections
Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift
The Manual of Museum Management
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The Participatory Museum

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Museums in Motion by Edward P. AlexanderGender Perspectives by Jane R. GlaserReinventing the Museum by Gail AndersonNew Town Square by Robert R ArchibaldExhibitions in Museums by Michael Belcher
MSU M.A. ~ Museum Studies
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The Participatory Museum by Nina SimonAnarchist's Guide to Historic House Museums by Franklin D. VagnoneMuseums in Motion by Edward P. AlexanderThe Art of Relevance by Nina SimonMuseum Registration Methods by Rebecca A. Buck
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Quotes Tagged “Museology”

Tomislav Šola
“ Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence. ”
― Tomislav S. Šola, Eternity Does Not Live Here Any More - A Glossary of Museum Sins
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“ 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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