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Museum Studies
Interviews with authors and scholars about new books in museum studies.
March 15, 2026
On the Edge
On the Edge: Endbands in the Bookbinding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean by Dr Giorgios Boudalis (Legacy Press, 2022). The term endbands desig…
February 27, 2026
Invisible Hands
In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the internation…
February 3, 2026
Africa's Buildings
Between the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists dismembered African buildings and dispersed their parts …
January 27, 2026
Peculiar Satisfaction
As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of S…
January 26, 2026
The Empress and I
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi g…
January 16, 2026
Deconstituting Museums
What is the future of museums? In Deconstituting Museums: Participation’s Affective Work Helen Graham, an Associate Professor in School of Fine Art, …
December 28, 2025
Conservation of Books
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated…
December 23, 2025
Curating the Colonial Past
In the early 1960s, British colonial administrations in East Africa organized the systematic destruction and removal of secret documents from colonies…
December 22, 2025
A Guide to Regency Dress
In A Guide to Regency Dress: from Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins (Yale UP 2025), celebrated dress historian Dr. Hilary Davidson brings to…
December 22, 2025
The Digital Medieval Manuscript
We increasingly encounter medieval books as digital facsimiles—zooming in on high-resolution images, clicking through virtual pages, or engaging with …
November 26, 2025
Repast
Our insatiable appetite for creativity in the kitchen – or around the open fire – is reflected in the fascinating array of objects explored in this bo…
November 24, 2025
The Stories Old Towns Tell
Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt…
November 22, 2025
Preserving Disability
A transcript of this interview is available [here] Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession (Library Juice Press, 2024) weaves t…
November 12, 2025
Object-Based Learning
In Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education (UCL Press, 2025), Thomas Kador provides a concise overview of some of the mo…
November 3, 2025
Resurrecting the Past
In Resurrecting the Past: France's Forgotten Heritage Mandate (Cornell UP, 2025), Dr. Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a …
October 6, 2025
The Art of Parisian Chic
Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Ar…
September 27, 2025
Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector (Lund Humphries, 2025) emphasises Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812-1895) — also known as Lady Char…
August 8, 2025
In Open Contempt
Amid the ongoing reckoning over America’s history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot …
August 7, 2025
Cinematic Cairo
The relationship between the city and cinema is formidable. The images and sounds of the city found in movies are perhaps the only experience that man…
July 28, 2025
Monopolizing Knowledge
In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff tr…