Berghahn Series
Museums and Collections
Editors:
Mary Bouquet, University College Utrecht
Howard Morphy, The Australian National University, Canberra
Editorial Advisory Board:
Chris Gosden, University of Oxford
Corinne Kratz, Emory University, Atlanta
Susan Legêne, VU University Amsterdam
Sharon Macdonald, The University of Manchester
Anthony Shelton, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Paul Tapsell, University of Otago, Dunedin
As houses of memory and sources of information about the world, museums function as a dynamic interface between past, present and future. Museum collections are increasingly being recognized as material archives of human creativity and as invaluable resources for interdisciplinary research. Museums provide powerful forums for the expression of ideas and are central to the production of public culture: they may inspire the imagination, generate heated emotions and express conflicting values in their material form and histories. This series explores the potential of museum collections to transform our knowledge of the world, and for exhibitions to influence the way in which we view and inhabit that world. It offers essential reading for those involved in all aspects of the museum sphere: curators, researchers, collectors, students and the visiting public.
Submissions
Formal submissions should be sent directly to Berghahn Books. For more information on Berghahn's manuscript submission procedure, please look at the Info for Authors section on this web site. All submissions to this series, as well as any queries about the formal procedure, should be sent to Berghahn.
Download the Series Flyer:
-
Volume 17
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Jeffrey Abt
Published: 2024 -
Volume 16
Museum Times
Changing Histories in South Africa
Leslie Witz
Published: 2022 -
Volume 15
Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative
Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities
Annika Bünz
Published: 2022 -
Volume 14
Contested Holdings
Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return
Edited by Felicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oţoiu, and Eva-Maria Troelenberg
Published: 2022 -
Volume 13
Transforming Author Museums
From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
Edited by Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke
Published: 2021 -
Volume 12
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Catherine A. Nichols
Published: 2021 -
Volume 11
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Diana E. Marsh
Published: 2019
Foreword by Jennifer Shannon -
Volume 10
The Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Steffi de Jong
Published: 2018 -
Volume 9
Visitors to the House of Memory
Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Victoria Bishop Kendzia
Published: 2017 -
Volume 8
Museum Websites and Social Media
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws
Published: 2015 -
Volume 7
The Enemy on Display
The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Zuzanna Bogumił, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Tim Buchen, Christian Ganzer and Maria Senina
Published: 2015 -
Volume 6
Exhibiting Europe in Museums
Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations
Wolfram Kaiser, Stefan Krankenhagen and Kerstin Poehls
Published: 2014
Translated from the German -
Volume 5
Borders of Belonging
Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site
Mads Daugbjerg
Published: 2014 -
Volume 4
Colonial Collecting and Display
Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Claire Wintle
Published: 2013 -
Volume 3
The Lives of Chinese Objects
Buddhism, Imperialism and Display
Louise Tythacott
Published: 2011 -
Volume 2
The Long Way Home
The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Edited by Paul Turnbull and Michael Pickering
Published: 2010 -
Volume 1
The Future of Indigenous Museums
Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
Edited by Nick Stanley
Published: 2007