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Museum Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Theory and Praxis (September): Works Cited

By Juilee Decker

Works Cited

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Bitgood, Stephen. Attention and Value: Keys to Understanding Museum Visitors. Left Coast Press, 2013 (CH, Nov’13, 51-1200).

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Cities, Museums, and Soft Power, ed. by Gail Dexter Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg. AAM Press, 2015.

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A Companion to Museum Studies, ed. by Sharon Macdonald. Blackwell, 2006 (CH, Jan’07, 44-2496).

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Crowdsourcing Our Cultural Heritage, ed. by Mia Ridge. Ashgate, 2014.

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Duncan, Carol. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. Routledge, 1995.

Edson, Gary. Museum Ethics in Practice. Routledge, 2017.

The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources, ed. by Jonah Siegel. Oxford, 2008.

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Falk, John H. Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. Left Coast Press, 2009.

Falk, John H., and Lynn D. Dierking. The Museum Experience. Whalesback Books, 1992.

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Klobe, Tom. Exhibitions: Concept, Planning, and Design. AAM Press, 2012.

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Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, ed. by Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 

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Samis, Peter, and Mimi Michaelson. Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum.  Routledge, 2017.

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Series

Innovative Approaches for Museums.” Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Interpreting History.” Rowman & Littlefield, 2014– .

Key Issues in Cultural Heritage.” Routledge, 2008– . 

Leicester Readers in Museum Studies.” Routledge, 1994– . 

Museum Meanings.” Routledge, 1997– . 

Journals

Collections: A Journal for Museum & Archives Professionals. Rowman & Littlefield.

Curator: The Museum Journal. Wiley. 

International Journal of Cultural Property. Cambridge. 

International Journal of Heritage Studies. Taylor & Francis. 

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies. Institute of Archaeology/University College London.  

Journal of Museum Education. Taylor & Francis. 

Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. Taylor & Francis. 

Journal of the History of Collections. Oxford. 

Museum and Society. University of Leicester. 

Museum Worlds. Berghahn. 

The Public Historian. California.  

Visitor Studies. Taylor & Francis. 

Repositories/Websites

American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Formerly American Association of Museums.  http://aam-us.org/.

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). http://www.aaslh.org/

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). https://www.imls.gov/

International Council of Museums (ICOM). http://icom.museum/ 

National Council on Public History (NCPH). http://ncph.org/