Books in the Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management series

A definitive guide to museum careers - it teaches how to prepare, look for and find jobs in the museum profession.

The result of a debate organized by the Museums Association in 1989, between some of the world's leading museum professionals, active politicians, economists and marketing specialists, who looked at "real" problems faced now and in the future.

Forward Planning provides a complete basic guide; from the principles on which planning is founded, through drawing up the plan itself, implementation and monitoring, through to the wider potentials that good planning permits.

This volume provides access to some of the best practice in the provision for the disabled, and sets out an agenda for future action in museums worldwide.

Acknowledged as the international standard text for basic security procedures in museums.

Museum Ethics considers the theoretical and practical elements of the philosophy of conduct in relation to critical contemporary issues and museums.

Brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. This title charts the relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display.