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Our Environment Ruined? Environmental Control Reconsidered as a Strategy for Conservation
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 1996 This paper examines the current debate on guidelines for environmental control in the light of deterioration mechanisms induced and accelerated by fluctuations in relative humidity.
Dale Peters
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Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2014 This paper is an analysis of the NST (Nanoscience and Technology) exhibit at the DM (Deutsches Museum) from the point of view of a German studies scholar and a nanoscientist.
Paul A Youngman, Ljiljana Fruk
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What’s your dinosaur? Or, imaginative reconstruction and absolute truth in the museum space
Museum & Society, 2019 For the first half of the nineteenth century, objects in the British Museum were largely unlabeled, uncatalogued, and unexplained. Nevertheless, the idea that the object could evoke a ‘larger world’ was current in discussions of the pedagogical use of ...
Jordan Kistler, Will Tattersdill
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Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2022 A common forgery technique is to use molds to create a suite of objects. This article introduces a new technique to identify objects made with the same mold through the comparison of 3D models created using structured light scanning (SLS). SLS data, when
Justin Jennings +3 more
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‘Visual Histories’ Science Visualization in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Museums
Museum & Society, 2019 This article attempts to shed light on the complex interdependencies between science, art and popular visual culture in the context of nineteenth-century natural history museums.
Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel
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Anthropology, Museums and the Body: Lessons From an Experimental Teaching Environment
Museum & Society, 2019 With increased interests in solving complex problems through interdisciplinary research—how best can museums use this approach to address critical social issues?
Gwyneira Isaac +9 more
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Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2017 In this critical assessment of the ‘museology of science’ I cherry-pick recent scholarship and practice to unpack the functions of science collections. Some practices (exhibition, engagement, study) have already attracted considerable attention, others ...
Samuel J M M Alberti
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Museum & Society, 2015 Census data reveal that suburban communities are becoming increasingly diverse. Once considered affluent and predictable places, American suburbs are now confronting increasing poverty rates as well as ethnic, racial and linguistic diversity.
Zoila Tazi, Helena Vidal, Karen Stein
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Museum & Society, 2015 By exploring the distinctive tasks and tools of the ecomuseum paradigm, the essay aims to evaluate the actual and potential role of these institutions within the present context, to investigate their efficiency in operating as progressive tools of ...
Elena Montanari
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Museum & Society, 2020 This article concerns efforts to increase the accessibility of art through digital collections on the web. Features for display and comparison used by the platform of the Swedish artist Ivar Arosenius and by web projects such as Europeana and Google Art &
Karin Wagner
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