Museum History Journal

Aims & Scope

Museum History Journal is the only international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the history of museums.

Focusing on how and why museums originated, developed and sustained themselves through collections, exhibitions, management, policy and public programmes as well as other key activities.

Rather than focus on particular collections or leading curators and directors, we encourage articles that take a broad historical view of these organisations and institutions that seem to be as popular as ever.

We particularly welcome submissions about regions that are under-represented in the existing scholarly literature: we want to go beyond the Anglophone focus of Western Europe and North America.

We also encourage fresh scholarly approaches that integrate historical studies with the theories and methodologies of other humanities and social science disciplines.

This journal interprets ‘museum’ broadly, including galleries and other collecting and exhibiting institutions.

We welcome submissions on related institutions as well, such as botanical gardens, historical societies and sites, acquaria, planetariums and zoos.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.10

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.120

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	8

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	27286

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	5

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Lost Museums

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Steven, Lukas, Ann, Kathrinne

• Ten Commandments for Effective Anthropological Exhibits

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Nancy, Angelina

• Travelling Museums and Itinerant Collections in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Irina

• Cultures of Curating: The Limits of Authority

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Sarah

• Wax Bodies: Art and Anatomy in Victorian Medical Museums

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Samuel

• Nineteenth-Century Museums and the Shaping of Disciplines: Potentialities and Limitations at Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Caroline

• The Early History of Docents in American Art Museums: 1890-1930

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Katherine

• The Creation of the National Museum of Colombia (1823–1830): A History of Collections, Collectors, and Museums

  Citation: 6

  Authors: María

• Bundling objects, documents, and practices: Collecting Andean mummies from 1850 to 1930

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Maria Patricia

• <i>Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums, Second Edition</i> by Edward P. Alexander and Mary Alexander

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Suzanne

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