Art Center Basel & Katharina Beisiegel (editors), New museums: intentions, expectations, challenges, Hirmer Verlag, NA6690 .N49 2017
Curator: the museum journal (“a forum for exploration and debate of urgent issues in the museum field among museum professionals, scholars, and students”)
Fromm, Annette B., et al (editors), Museums and truth, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
Greub, Suzanne, et al., Museums in the 21st century: concepts, projects, buildings, Prestel, NA6690.M869 2008
Hanks, Laura Hourston, Museum builders II, Wiley-Academy, NA6690.H68 2004
Hoffmann, Hans Wolfgang, Museum buildings, Dom Publishers, NA6690.H64 2016
Liefooghe, Maarten, et al (editors), Staging the museum = Museum scènes, OASE Foundation; nai010 publishers, NA673 .O27 2022 #111
Meyer, Andrea & Benedicte Savoy (editors), The Museum is open: towards a transnational history of museums 1750-1940, De Gruyter, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
“Museums,” Detail, September 2006 (Theme issue)
Noever, Peter, et al., The Discursive museum, Hatje Cantz, N430 .D573 2001
Orosz, Joel J., Curators and culture: the museum movement in America, 1740-1870, University Alabama Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, “Museums,” Chapter 8 of A History of Building Types, Princeton University Press, NA4170.P48 [1976]
Quiccheberg, Samuel, The first treatise on museums: Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565, Getty Research Institute, AM4.Q5313 2013
Rose, Julian, Building culture : sixteen architects on how museums are shaping the future of art, architecture, and public space, Princeton Architectural Press, NA6690 .R66 2024
Thomas, Nicholas, The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good for in the 21st Century, Reaktion Books, Limited, 2016 (via Ebook Central)
Zeiger, Mimi, New museums: contemporary museum architecture around the world, Universe, NA6690.Z45 2005
Arrhenius, Thordis, et al., Place and displacement: exhibiting architecture, Lars Muller, NA2500.P55x 2014
“Curating architecture,” Log, #20, Fall 2010 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
“Exhibitions: showing and producing architecture,” OASE, #88, 2012, NA680.T45 2012
Krugler, John D., Creating old world Wisconsin: the struggle to build an outdoor history museum of ethnic architecture, University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Levy, Aaron & William Menking, Architecture on display: on the history of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architectural Association, NA680.A73 2010
Pelkonen, Eeva-liisa, et al, Exhibit A: exhibitions that transformed architecture, 1948-2000, Phaidon Press, NA680 .P45 2018
Pelkonen, Eeva-liisa (editor), Exhibiting architecture: a paradox? Yale School of Architecture, NA680.E94 2015
Perrella, Stephen (editor), The international style: exhibition 15 and the Museum of Modern Art, Rizzoli, NA680.H5 1992
“Period room architecture in American art museums,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2012 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Szacka, Léa-Catherine (interviewer), Biennials / triennials: conversations on the geography of itinerant display, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, NA2500 .S97 2019
VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL CATALOGS
Cahan, Susan, Mounting frustration: the art museum in the age of Black power, Duke University Press,N6538.N5C34 2016
Curran, Kathleen, The invention of the American art museum: from craft to Kulturgeschichte, 1870-1930, Getty, N510.C87 2016
Feldstein, Martin, Economics of art museums, University of Chicago Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
“The MOMA Expansion: A Conversation with Terence Riley,” October, #84, 1998 (PDF via JSTOR)
Montaner, Josep Maria, “Museums of the 21st century: new types, new relationships with visitors,” #134, Lotus international, 2008, p. 120-129
Rowell, Christopher, "Display of art," Oxford Art Online
Searing, Helen, "Museums of contemporary art and industrial conversions," in Callie Angell, et al., The Andy Warhol Museum, N6537.W28A79 1994
Tilden, Scott J., Architecture for art: American art museums, 1938-2008, Harry N. Abrams, NA6696.U6 A73 2004
Arrhenius, Thordis, The fragile monument - on conservation and modernity, Black Dog Publishing, NA105.A774 2012
Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin (PDFs of 1986 to 2016 are available via JSTOR, as are the earlier Bulletin, published 1969 to 1986)
Catlin-Legutko, Cinnamon & Stacy Klingler (editors), Stewardship: collections and historic preservation, AltaMira Press, 2012 (via Ebook Central)
Clavir, Miriam Clavir, Preserving what is valued: museum, conservation, and First Nations, UBC Press, 2002 (via Ebook Central)
CoOL (“resources for conservation professionals”)
Ferriani, Barbara & Marina Pugliese (editors), Ephemeral monuments: history and conservation of installation art, Getty Conservation Institute, N6494.I56 M6613 2013
The Getty Conservation Institute
Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies (open access to issues from 1996-present)
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (open access to issues from 1977-2005)
May, Eric & Mark Jones (editors), Conservation science: heritage materials, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007 (via Ebook Central)
Rivenc, Rachel, Made in Los Angeles: materials, processes, and the birth of West Coast minimalism, Getty Conservation Institute, N6512.5.M5R58 2016
Studies in Conservation (PDFs of articles from 1952 to 2010 available via JSTOR)
Hoffmann, Jens (editor), Ten fundamental questions of curating, Mousse Publishing, N408 .T46 2013
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, A brief history of curating, JRP / Ringier & Les Presses du réel, N408 .O27 2018
O'Neill, Paul (editor), The curatorial conundrum: what to study? what to research? what to practice? MIT Press, N408.C877 2016
Rugg, Judith (editor), Issues in curating contemporary art and performance, Intellect, 2007 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Silver, Sean, The mind is a collection: case studies in eighteenth-century thought, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)
Skrubbe, Jessica Sjöholm (editor), Curating differently: feminisms, exhibitions and curatorial spaces, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 (via Ebook Central)
Bogle, Elizabeth, Museum exhibition planning and design, AltaMira Press, 2013 (via Ebook Central)
Futagawa, Yukio, Museum 2, ADA Edita, NA6690 .M871 2008
Hoffmann, Hans Wolfgang, Museum buildings, Dom Publishers, NA6690.H64 2016
Jodidio, Philip, Architecture now!: Museums, Taschen, NA6690 .J63 2010
Liefooghe, Maarten, et al. (editors), Staging the museum, OASE Foundation; nai010 publishers, NA673 .O27 2022 #111
Naredi-Rainer, Paul V., Museum buildings: a design manual, Basel Birkhäuser, NA6690 .N37 2004
Rosenblatt, Arthur, Building type basics for museums, Wiley, NA6690 .R67 2001
Sendpoints, Museum design: architecture/ culture/ geographical environment, NA6690 .S46 2015
Art Center Basel & Katharina Beisiegel (editors), New Museums: intentions, expectations, challenges, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, NA6690 .N49 2017
Bertron, Aurelia, Designing exhibitions: a compendium for architects, designers and museum professionals, Birkhauser, AM151 .B47 2006
Bonet, Llorenç, Exhibition design, Rockport, NA6750.A1E93 2006Bertron, Aurelia, Designing exhibitions: a compendium for architects, designers and museum professionals, Birkhäuser, AM151.B47 2006
Dean, David, Museum exhibition: theory and practice, Routledge, 1996 (via Ebook Central)
Rolshoven, Martin (editor), Exhibition design, Rockport, NA6750.A1 E96 2006
The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
Carson, Cary, "The End of history museums: What's Plan B?" The Public Historian, #4, 2008, p. 9-27 (PDF via Jstor)
Handler, Richard & Eric Gable, New History in an Old Museum; creating the past at Colonial Williamsburg, Duke University Press, F234.W7H27 1997
Hansen-Glucklich, Jennifer, Holocaust memory reframed: museums and the challenges of representation, Rutgers University Press, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Kavanagh, Gaynor, Making histories in museums, Continuum, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Magelssen, Scott, "Making history in the second person: post-touristic considerations for living historical interpretation," Theatre Journal, #2, 2006, p. 291-312
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl, “Understanding the Holocaust through the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,” Journal of Architectural Education, May 1995 p. 240-249 (PDF via Jstor)
Wilson, Mabel, Negro building: Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums, University of California Press, E185.53.A1W55 2012
Butcher-Younghans, Sherry, Historic house museums: a practical handbook for their care, preservation, and management, Oxford University Press, 1996 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Merritt, Jane, Preventive conservation for historic house museums, AltaMira Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Historic Houses Association (UK)
Historic houses maintained by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Association of Moving Image Archivists
Berlin Film and Television Museum (German Film Archive)
Le Musée de la Cinémathèque (Cinémathèque Française)
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
“Film museums,” Film History, #3, 2006, p. 327-349 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY)
National museum of cinema (Turin, Italy)
National Music Museum (University of South Dakota)
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, OH)
Alberro, Alexander & Blake Stimson (editors), Institutional critique: an anthology of artists' writings, MIT Press, N6494.I565I57 2009
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., “Conceptual art 1966-1969: from the aesthetic of administration to the critique of institutions,” October, #55, 1990, p. 104-143 (PDF via Jstor)
Fraser, Andrea, Museum highlights: the writings of Andrea Fraser, MIT Press, NX512.F73A35 2005
Hoberman, Ruth, Museum trouble: Edwardian fiction and the emergence of modernism, University of Virginia Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Lawler, Louise, Twice untitled and other pictures (looking back), MIT Press, TR187.L39 2006
Roffman, Karin, From the modernist annex: American women writers in museums and libraries, University Alabama Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Wallis, Brian, Hans Haacke: unfinished business, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, N6888.H22A4 1986
MUSEUMS IN MOVIES (a selective, chronological list)
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. (editor), The afterlives of animals: a museum menagerie, University of Virginia Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Chicone, Sarah J & Richard A. Kissel, Dinosaurs and dioramas: creating natural history exhibitions, Routledge, 2016 (via Ebook Central)
Hendriksen, Marieke M. A., Elegant anatomy: the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, Brill, 2014 (via Ebook Central)
Holmes, John, Temple of science : the Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Museum of Natural History, Bodleian Library, NA6700.O94 H65 2020
Reynolds, Ann, "Reproducing nature: the museum of natural history as nonsite,"October, #45, Summer 1988, p. 109-127 (PDF via JSTOR)
Winsor, Mary P., Reading the shape of nature: comparative zoology at the Agassiz Museum, University of Chicago Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)
Yanni, Carla, Nature's museums: Victorian science and the architecture of display, Princeton Architectural Press, QH70.A1Y25 1999 (also available via Ebook Central)
The Art Loss Register (“a permanent international database of stolen and missing works of art, antiques and valuables”)
Cuno, James, Who owns antiquity? museums and the battle over our ancient heritage, Princeton University Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Hendry, Joy, Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous People and Self Representation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Lindsay, Ivan, The history of loot and stolen art: from antiquity until the present day, Andrews UK, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Nafziger, James A. R., Cultural heritage issues: the legacy of conquest, colonization and commerce, Brill, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Rhodes, Robin F., Acquisition and exhibition of classical antiquities: professional, legal, and ethical perspectives, University of Notre Dame Press, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M., Curious devices and mighty machines : exploring science museums, Reaktion Books, Q105.A1 A53 2022
The Association of Science-Technology Centers (international)
Caulton, Tim, Hands-on exhibitions: managing interactive museums and science centres, Routledge, 1998 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Henebry, Charles, "The Making of MoMath: America's only museum of mathematics," Math Horizons, #2, 2012, p. 14-17 (PDF via Jstor)
“Museums and the history of science,” Isis, December 2005 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Adorno, Theodor W., “Valéry Proust Museum,” in Prisms, MIT Press, HM101.A4513 1981
Ames, Michael M., Cannibal tours and glass boxes: the anthropology of museums, University of British Columbia Press, 1992 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Bechtler, Cristina, et al, Museum of the future : now what? JRP Editions & Les Presses du reel, N420 .M87 2021
Bhatti, Shaila, Translating museums: a counterhistory of South Asian museology, Left Coast Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Cooke, Lynne & Peter Wollen, Visual display: culture beyond appearance, Bay Press, N72.S6D57 1995
Dickinson, Greg, et al., Places of public memory: the rhetoric of museums and memorials, University Alabama Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Fromm, Annette B., et al., Museums and truth, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Garcia, Tristan & Vincent Normand (editors), Theater, garden, bestiary: a materialist history of exhibitions, Sternberg Press, AM151 .T46 2019
Harris, Neil, Cultural excursions: marketing appetites and cultural tastes in modern America, University of Chicago Press, NX180.S6H325 1990
Krauss, Rosalind, “The Cultural logic of the late capitalist museum,” October, #54, 1990, p. 3-17 (PDF via Jstor)
O’Doherty, Brian, Studio and cube: on the relationship between where art is made and where art is displayed, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Pearce, Susan, Objects of knowledge, Athlone Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Rugoff, Ralph, Circus Americanus, Verso, F869.L84R84 1995 (Especially good on eccentric L.A. museums)
Weil, Stephen E., A cabinet of curiosities: inquiries into museums and their prospects, Smithsonian Institution Press, AM7.W392 1995
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