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Museum Studies

Museums without walls

Note: this list includes resources about virtual museums as well as outdoor (open-air) museums

Association for Living History, Farms, and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM)
American Association of Public Gardens (formerly the American Association of Botanical Gardens & Arboreta)
Museum of Online Museums
Association of European Open Air Museums
Underwater cultural heritage (UNESCO)
Museums Without Walls (CultureNow)
Museums Without Walls Audio (Association for Public Art)
Virtual Museum of Canada
Ecomuseum concept: A Saskatchewan perspective on "museums without walls". (Heritage Saskatchewan/Museums Association of Saskatchewan, 2015)
New museology, communities, ecomuseums (Newcastle University, presentation)
The 21st century museums: The museum without walls (Australian Museum)
Digital heritage museums and virtual museums (article)
Museum websites and museum visitors: Digital museum resources and their use (P.F. Marty article)
See also the section on Digital museology

Finding books and articles on museums without walls

Here are some of recommended subject headings to find books in the U of T Libraries catalogue. Do not include the hyphens in your search.

Virtual museums
Cultural property -- Digitization
Open air museums
Community museums
Arboretums
Botanical gardens

To find articles on this topic, use similar subject words in the recommended databases