Penn Libraries has nearly 25,000 items related to museums. I recommend keyword searching, but, if you would like to browse selections made using very specific Subject Headings related to museological work:
Have a museums-related book or journal you would recommend the Museum Library add to Penn Libraries' collections? Email Deb (browndeb@upenn.edu).
Courtesy of Mia Wells, Assistant Director, Lippincott Library of the Wharton School.
In her most recent list, Joy Davis, Book Review Editor and Associate Editor of the journal Museum Management and Curatorship, recommends the following new publications on museum studies:
Arts and Cultural Leadership: Creating Sustainable Arts Organizations by Kenneth Foster, Routledge, 2nd Edition, 2022.
Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices by Kristin Hass, Beacon Press, 2023.
Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace: An Introductory Guide by Colin Breen, Routledge 2023.
Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American History and Culture by Bettina Messias Carbonell, Lexington Books 2023.
Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception: Reconsidering Inclusion, Transparency and Mediation in Exhibition Making Practice by Stéphanie Bertrand, Routledge 2022.
Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis: Biennales as Agents of Change by Felicity Fenner, Routledge 2022.
Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe by Britta Timm Knudsen, John Oldfield, et al., Routledge 2022.
Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power by Janice Rieger, Routledge 2023.
Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene by Hannah Stark, Routledge 2023.
Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon D. Daehnke, University Press of Florida 2023.
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition: Changes, Challenges, and Convergence in a Scandinavian Perspective edited by C. Rasmussen, K. Rydbeck and H. Larsen. Routledge 2023.
Mannequins in Museums: Power and Resistance on Display edited by Bridget R. Cooks and Jennifer J. Wagelie, Routledge 2022.
Museums and Social Responsibility: A Theory of Social Practice by Kevin Coffee, Routledge 2023.
Heritage Dynamics: Understanding and adapting to change in diverse heritage contexts by Kalliopi Fouseki, UCL Press 2022.
Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency by Janice Baker, Routledge 2023.
Museums, Refugees and Communities by Domenico Sergi, Routledge, 2021.
Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value by Howard Morphy and Robyn McKenzie, Routledge 2021.
Pandemic Performance: Resilience, Liveness, and Protest in Quarantine Times by Kendra Capece and Patrick Scorese, Routledge 2021.
Plural Heritages and Community Co-production: Designing, Walking, and Remembering by Christopher Whitehead, Tom Schofield, et al., Routledge, 2021.
Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito, MIT Press, 2014.
Reconfiguring the Museum: The Politics of Digital Display by Ana-Maria Herman, McGill-Queens, 2023.
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Experiences of Return in Central Australia by Jason M. Gibson, Routledge 2024.
Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times: Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19 by Nick Shepherd, Routledge 2023.
The Anticolonial Museum: Reclaiming Our Colonial Heritage by Bruno Brulon Soares, Routledge 2024.
The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change: Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement by Sarah Sutton, Routledge, 2023.
The Changing Museum: A History of New Walk Museum by Clive Gray, Routledge 2019.
The Curatorial Condition by Beatrice Von Bismark, Sternberg Press, 2022.
The Sustainable Museum: How Museums Contribute to the Great Transformation by Christopher Garthe, Routledge 2023.
Theorizing Equity in the Museum: Integrating Perspectives from Research and Practice by Bronwyn Bevan and Bahia Ramos, Routledge 2022.
Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Sarah May, Routledge 2024.
Transforming Museum Management: Evidence-Based Change through Open Systems Theory by Yuha Jung, Routledge, 2022.
Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and Changing Institutions by Zdenka Badovinac, Sternberg Press, 2022.
