Collecting the ContemporaryCollecting the Contemporary: A Handbook for Social History Museums is a major new publication which addresses one of the most fundamental issues facing todays history museums: why and how to engage with contemporary collecting? In a format which is approachable, attractive and above all actionable, this new book is packed with stimulating thinking and international case studies from some of the leading practitioners and thinkers in the field. Many

begin collecting relevant new material

marketing and growth

Many of the economic strategies in this book had to be developed from scratch

Date: 2010

examines in depth how museums globally are succeeding – in many different ways – in reaching and involving social groups traditionally overlooked or excluded from the museum experience

The Crisis Project forms part of an important new trilogy of books - alongside Terry Dennett & Jo Spence: Our Studio Was The World and Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings - which explores their unpublished work

Wonderful Things is packed with bright and tested ideas - often in the form of games - which will help people of all ages relate to

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Lewis Baltz

with their impact extending far beyond image-making - into publishing

repeated and normalised

Facing up to the big questions