Section outline


  • Meeting point: QMUL Mile End Campus, Grad Centre 103

    • Suggested Background Reading

      General museum texts: 

      • Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine (eds.), Museum Basics (London: Routledge, 1993).
      • Graham Black, Transforming Museums in The Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2012).
      • Bettina Messias Carbonell (ed.), Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
      • Christina Kreps, ‘Non-Western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective,’ in A Companion to Museum Studies, ed. Sharon Macdonald (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 457–472. 
      • Caroline Lang et al., The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century (London: Routledge, 2007).
      • Sharon MacDonald and Helen Rees Leahy, The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 4 volumes, (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015).

      Museum history:

      • Germain Bazin, The Museum Age (New York: Universe Books, 1967).
      • Marjorie Caygill et al, Enlightening the British: Knowledge, Discovery and the Museum in the Eighteenth Century(London: British Museum Press, 2004).
      • J. Mordaunt Crook, The British Museum (London: Allen Lane, 1972).
      • Arthur MacGregor, Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007).
      • Andrew McClellan, The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2008).
      • Impey Oliver and MacGregor Arthur (eds), The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, rev 2001).
      • Nikolaus Pevsner, Academies of Art, Past and Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940).
      • Karsten Schubert, The Curator’s Egg. The Evolution of the Museum Concept from the French Revolution to the Present Day (London: One Off Press, 2000).
      • David M. Wilson, The British Museum, A History (London: British Museum, London, 2002).

      Museum theory:

      • Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (London: Routledge, 1995).
      • Carol Duncan, Civilising Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London: Routledge, 1995).
      • Ferguson Greenberg and Sandy Nairne (eds.), Thinking about Exhibitions (London: Routledge, 1996).
      • Janet Marstine (ed.), New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006).
      • Andrea Witcomb and Kylie Message, Museum Theory (Oxford: Wiley, 2015).

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