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Ecomuseums and Contemporary Multi-cultural Communities: Assessing Problems and Potentialities through the Experience of the Écomusée du Val de Bièvre, Fresnes, France

open access: yesMuseum & 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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Random display and recommendations – exploring the web platform of the artist Ivar Arosenius and other digital collections of art

open access: yesMuseum & 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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Museums, exchanges, and their contribution to Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘soft power’

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
This paper discusses the role that museums and art institutions have in recent years played in international relations, and their contribution to the concept of soft power, coined by Joseph Nye; referring to a country’s ability to persuade rather than ...
Leanne Hoogwaerts
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The Habitus of Heritage: a Discussion of Bourdieu's Ideas for Visitor Studies in Heritage and Museums

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
This article argues that Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital has much to offer museum and heritage visitor studies.
Bella Dicks
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For the Record:[un] official voices at the V&A

open access: yesJournal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2012
This report gives an overview of the historical and affective value of oral history recordings drawing on my current research on curators at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Linda Sandino
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Kvardagens ferjereiser

open access: yesNorsk Museumstidsskrift, 2023
Samandrag Naturtilhøva og geografien i Kyst-Noreg har medført at ferjer for mange har vorte ein sjølvsagt del av kvardagen. I denne artikkelen er eg ute etter å analysere og forstå korleis folk handterer eit tilvære med avhengigheit av ferjer.
Heidi Richardson
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Presentation of Qatari Identity at National Museum of Qatar: Between Imagination and Reality

open access: yesJournal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2018
This article discusses the proposal of the presentation of a single homogenous identity at the new National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), due to open in 2019, presenting a discussion of Qatari identity and the historical factors that create such an identity ...
Mariam I. Al-Hammadi
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The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 182, Issue S1, Page S24-S151, December 2025.
The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear,
Stephen P. H. Alexander   +206 more
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THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: G protein‐coupled receptors

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 176, Issue S1, Page S21-S141, December 2019., 2019
The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20 is the fourth in this series of biennial publications. The Concise Guide provides concise overviews of the key properties of nearly 1800 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective pharmacology (where available), plus links to the open access knowledgebase source of drug targets and their ligands (www ...
Stephen P H Alexander   +138 more
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The Seashells of an Iconic Public Artwork: Diversity and Provenance of the Mollusks of the Watts Towers

open access: yesJournal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2019
The Watts Towers (WT), an iconic Los Angeles artwork created by Sabato Rodia in 1921–1954, is covered with mosaics whose elements include thousands of mollusk shells. Little is known about the diversity or sources of these shells.
Bruno Pernet   +2 more
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