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Contemporary Collecting: Theory and Practice £19.95 - £79.95	Conversations with Visitors: Social Media and Museums £39.95 - £149.00	Creativity and Technology: Social Media, Mobiles & Museums £49.95 - £179.95	Interpretive Master Planning £64.90 - £249.00
Museum Retailing: A Handbook of Strategies for Success £44.95 - £74.95	Museums and the Disposals Debate £59.95 - £99.95	Museums At Play: Games, Interaction and Learning £64.95 - £99.95	Museums of Ideas: Commitment and conflict £59.95 - £179.95
Restaurants, Catering and Facility Rentals £49.95 - £195.00	Social Design in Museums: The Psychology of Visitor Studies £95.00 - £145.00	Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century £44.95 - £89.95	The Interpretive Training Handbook £24.95 - £99.95

Academic Museums Takes Shape

We're excited at the response to our Call for Papers for this forthcoming publication, edited by Stefanie Jandl and Mark Gold, with over 100 submissions being received. The quality of the proposals was such that we've decided to publish two related books, instead of the single volume initi...

Free Book Extract: Hunting For Beauty

We're thrilled to bring you this visionary extract from Museums At Play (edited by Katy Beale). The chapter's titled Hunting for the Beauty of Game Design in a Museum’s Objects and it's written by Toby Barnes and David Hayward of Mudlark, the fine folks who also designed the grap...

ACADEMIC MUSEUMS: CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY - Call for Papers

We invite international submissions to be included in this forthcoming book which we're publishing in June 2012. We are thrilled with the level of response to the Call for Papers for this title and have been overwhelmed by the number and quality of proposals received to date. However, we also wi...

Serving Children When Parents Come Along - Free Chapter

What began as an investigation to learn about family visits at award-winning Conner Prairie Museum led to the transformation of the museum as an environment for family learning and shared experiences. By conducting visitor research and sharing it relentlessly with the staff, the Museum has...

Engaging New Audiences in the Cityscape - Free Chapter

How to engage new audiences with museum objects, historic documents, paintings, and long-dead personalities? The New-York Historical Society successfully uses new technology to insert objects from their collections into their original locations, enabling new audiences to discover the mysteries of...

Free Book Chapter: Planning for Children and Families

In our latest free book chapter, consultant Vicky Cave explains how - by Including local people in the exhibition development process and by "making children the experts" - the results are big benefits for both the community and the museum's staff. To view the book's full contents and sa...

Free book extract: From Headphones to Microphones

To receive automatic access to each new extract, just sign up in the box on the left! We'll regularly be making available here a free extract from one of our publications. The first is from Nancy Proctor, an extract from her chapter From Headphones to Microphones in our new book Creativit...