By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting.
Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home.
Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age.
Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments.
This book provides a visual reconstruction of Palmyra, a World Heritage Site situated in Syria, which flourished in Greco-Roman times.