Museum Studies

Description

Museum Studies contains selected essays on museums. Thirty-five articles contributed by museologists and those researching in museums cover diverse types of museums located in almost all the states and spread across the length and breadths of India.
Papers presented in this volume cover – history of museums, museum orientation, technological applications, virtual and modern museums, museum processes, museum architecture, museum and corporate world, friendlier museum, social accountability of museum, ecomuseum, museum publication, etc. and also collections such as – paintings, terracotta, sculptures, copper plates, coins, textiles, excavated remains, pottery, beads, seals, masks, ethnological collections, ranging from prehistoric times to contemporary period.
With first hand information on variety of museums, from traditional to modern museums and with more than 180 illustrations this volume would be of interest not only to the professionals and students of museology, archaeologists, artist, architects, but also to students and even to common readers interested in art, culture, and education.