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Museums -- Educational aspects

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• Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age (c2013), by G. Wayne Clough (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

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• Museums: Their History and Their Use; With a Bibliography and List of Museums in the United Kingdom (3 volumes; Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1904), by David Murray
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Museum Buildings (Volume 1: A Planning Study; only volume published; Washington: American Association of Museums, 1950), by Laurence Vail Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1987-1988 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1986-1987 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1985-1986 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1984-1985 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1985), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Joanna Ekman, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1983-1984 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1983-1984 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1984), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Amy Horbar, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1982-1983 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Polly Cone, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1981-1982 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Emily Walter, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1980-1981 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Joanna Ekman, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Notable Acquisitions, 1979-1980 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Emily Walter, contrib. by Philippe De Montebello (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Museums: Their History and Their Use; With a Bibliography and List of Museums in the United Kingdom (3 volumes; Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1904), by David Murray
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Haidy Geismar (HTML and PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums (2001), by Abby Smith Rumsey (HTML at clir.org)

• Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing (c2008), by Nancy Allen (HTML at jobilize.com)

• Handbook of Standards: Documenting African Collections, by International Council of Museums (frame-dependent HTML at icom.org)

• Handbook of Standards: Documenting African Collections, by International Council of Museums (frame-dependent HTML at icom.org)

• Radicalizing Care: Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v26; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2021), ed. by Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold, and Vera Hofmann (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• A Descriptive Catalogue (Giving a Full Explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum (1792), by Benjamin Rackstrow (page images at NIH)
• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977-2008 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2009), by James R. Houghton, Katharine Baetjer, Dorothea Arnold, Joan Aruz, Carlos A. Picón, Peter Barnet, Everett Fahy, Keith Christiansen, Walter A. Liedtke, Colta Feller Ives, George R. Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B. Kanter, Morrison H. Heckscher, J. Kenneth Moore, Hilde Limondjian, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J La Rocca, Maxwell K. Hearn, James C. Y. Watt, Stefano Carboni, Julie Jones, Alisa LaGamma, Eric Kjellgren, Virginia-Lee Webb, Gary Tinterow, Malcolm R. Daniel, Harold Koda, and John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Always an Adventure: An Autobiography (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Hugh A. Dempsey (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Always an Adventure: An Autobiography (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Hugh A. Dempsey (PDF at University of Calgary)

• A Descriptive Catalogue (Giving a Full Explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum (1792), by Benjamin Rackstrow (page images at NIH)

• Bulletin des Musées de France (in French) (partial serial archives)

• A Guide to Dresden, Its Buildings, Institutions and Environs; With a Plan of the Town (Dresden: H. Burdach; et al., ca. 1873), by Hermann Burdach (Javascript-dependent page images at dresden.de)

• The Museum Comes to Life (New York et al.: American book company, c1931), by Maribelle Cormack and William P. Alexander, illust. by Henry Meloy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2014), ed. by Constantine Sandis (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Curator (partial serial archives)
• Museum News (partial serial archives)
• Mouseion (French museum journal) (partial serial archives)
• The Museum (Newark Museum Association) (partial serial archives)
• Museums Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Art of Relevance (2016), by Nina Simon (HTML with commentary at artofrelevance.org)

• The Art of Relevance (2016), by Nina Simon (HTML with commentary at artofrelevance.org)

• The Art of Relevance (2016), by Nina Simon (HTML with commentary at artofrelevance.org)

• Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age (c2013), by G. Wayne Clough (PDF with commentary at Smithsonian)

• The Museum and Popular Culture (New York: American Association for Adult Education, 1939), by Thomas R. Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide (Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology) (full serial archives)

• Museum Buildings (Volume 1: A Planning Study; only volume published; Washington: American Association of Museums, 1950), by Laurence Vail Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Michele R. Derrick, Dusan Stulik, and James M. Landry (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990), by Mary-Lou E. Florian, Dale Paul Kronkright, and Ruth E. Norton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), by Eric Ferguson Doehne and C. A. Price (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Effects of Light on Materials in Collections: Data on Photoflash and Related Sources (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2001), by Terry T. Schaeffer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Metallography and Microstructure of Ancient and Historic Metals (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute and Archetype Books, c1991), by David A. Scott (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums (London and New York: Routledge, c2019), by Patricia Ann Banks (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (New Brunswick, NJ et al: Rutgers University Press, c2018), by Amy Sodaro (PDF at oapen.org)

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