Museum studies

This book introduces modern museology, which focuses on developing museums and enabling them to perform their essential functions optimally. It also aims to support and empower museums to fulfill their role in society, fostering development and achieving sustainable growth within a healthy social environment. Furthermore, it presents various branches of the discipline, different types of museums, and the similarities and differences in their objectives. The book primarily aims to provide a clear and comprehensive overview of museology, the museum, and its role in a changing society. It emphasizes the necessity for museums to adapt to this rapid change in order to effectively serve and develop society. The book is intended for a broad readership, including researchers, scholars, and those interested in the subject. This includes not only museum professionals and students in departments of museum studies, art, education, archaeology, science, and tourism at Arab universities, but also anyone involved in teaching museums and museology, researchers in museum, social, heritage, and cultural studies, and individuals and groups interested in museums and their role in society, such as civil society organizations concerned with the heritage, culture, and history of peoples.