Publications

IMHS publications present high-quality, original research by members of the Institute and its collaborators, contributing to international scholarship in museums, heritage, and society. Alongside peer-reviewed academic outputs, they include practice-focused publications that support museum and heritage professionals by fostering critical thinking, informing policy and guidelines, and addressing contemporary challenges in the field.

Our recent publications include:

The Museum Definition Handbook: Words Inspiring Action, edited by Bruno Brulon Soares and Lauran Bonilla-Merchav

Communities and Museums in the 21st Century: Shared Histories and Climate Action, edited by Karen Brown, Alissandra Cummins and Ana S. González Rueda

Memory and heritage practices of the Greeks of Gökçeada (Imbros) Island in Türkiye, by Gönül Bozoglu

Digital museum objects and digital ecologies, by Nicôle Meehan

The Anticolonial Museum: Reclaiming Our Colonial Heritage, by Bruno Brulon Soares

‘‘Fun Without Vulgarity’: A brief history of Dundee’s music halls, from the 1840s to the Great War’. Chapter in ‘A Dundee Miscellany’, Abertay Historical Society, by Billy Rough

‘Frightful catastrophe in Dundee’: the tragedy of Springthorpe’s Music Hall, by Billy Rough

Karian cosmopolitanism: archaeology, heritage, and identity in Southwestern Turkey, by Gönül Bozoglu

Routledge international handbook of heritage and politics, by G. Bozoglu, G. Campbell, G., L. Smith, & C. Whitehead.

The heritage politics of one man’s living room, by Gönül Bozoglu

Decolonising the curriculum. Decolonising museology, vol. 3, ICOFOM, edited by Karen Brown, Ana S. González Rueda and Bruno Brulon Soares