Resource Guide:
Museum Studies
Digital Open Education Resources
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Museum OR Museums
- Museum exhibits
- Museum studies
- Museum techniques
- Museum visitors
- Museums in art
- Museum -- Philosophy
- Exhibitions OR exhibits
- Art Museums
- Science Museums
- Historical Museums
- Design exhibitions
- Cultural property
- Theft from museums
- Tourism
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University
- Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
- International Journal of Education and the Arts
- International Journal of Education through Art
- Metropolitan Museum Journal
- Museum Anthropology
- Museum and Society
- Journal of Museum Studies
- Science Museum Group Journal
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Foundations of museum studies : evolving systems of knowledge | AM 5 .L38 2014 |
| Museums and memory | GN 36 .U62 S685 2011 |
| The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century | HV 6665 .G72 J64 2018 |
| Exhibiting blackness : African Americans and the American art museum | N 590 .C67 2011 |
| Rescuing da Vinci : Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe's great art : America and her allies recovered it | N 8793.3 .E85 E37 2006 |
| A living exhibition : the Smithsonian and the transformation of the universal museum | Q11.S8 W29 2013 |
| The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts | Z 659 .H22 2016 |
| Experimental Museology : Institutions, Representations, Users | eBook 2021 |
| The Brutish Museums : The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution | eBook 2020 |
| Museum Diplomacy : Transnational Public History and the U.S. Department of State | eBook 2020 |
| Images of the Art Museum : Connecting Gaze and Discourse in the History of Museology | eBook 2017 |