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Exploring the Boundaries of Perception: Interview with Valeria Bottalico

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In this conversation, Valeria Bottalico explores the intersection of art, perception, and accessibility through the Doppio Senso program at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, a project designed to make modern and contemporary art accessible to ...
Alessandro Paolo Lena
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Tirer les ficelles. Usage et réparation de collections en tension

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The restitution of colonial collections is often hampered by a recurring argument: that of conservation. According to this rhetoric, only Western museums have the necessary expertise to conserve material heritage, thereby imposing the idea that museums ...
Noémie Etienne
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Negotiating a ‘Tangled Web of Pride and Shame’: A Crimean Case-Study

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2015
This article complements an identified ‘cultural turn’ in military history, which emphasizes the potency of perception and the extent to which successes, failures, opportunities and threats are culturally conditioned (Black 2004: 233-35).
Rachel Bates
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Le musée guérisseur. Les musées canadiens face à leur passé colonial

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From 2008 to 2015, the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) sought to shed light on the residential school system to which 150,000 children were sent over the course of a century, with the aim of forcibly Christianizing and ...
Jean-Philippe Uzel
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Symbol of an era?: The Guggenheim Bilbao as an epitome of new museum tendencies at the turn of the millennium

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The Guggenheim Bilbao, inaugurated in 1997, soon became the most talked-about museum in the world, a global benchmark characteristically postmodern, for its architecture and its rupture with the introverted modernist canon, recovering all sort of ...
Jesús Pedro Lorente
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"We Will Remember Them" Memory and Commemoration in War Museums

open access: yesJournal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2001
David Lowenthal has observed that in today's museums, "nothing seems too horrendous to commemorate" (Lowenthal 1985). Yet museums frequently portray a sanitised version of warfare.
Andrew Whitmarsh
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At the museum: care for visitors, care for collections

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The introduction to this issue provides a comprehensive overview of the various interpretations of the restorative museum in recent decades. This novel configuration is part of a broader context of reflections and projects for museums, which have ...
Dominique Poulot
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Understanding the Exhibitionary Characteristics of Popular Music Museums

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
The literature on the popular music museum has primarily focused on the study of heritage and cultural memory with a secondary focus on tourism. Given the unprecedented expansion of the museum sector worldwide in recent decades, which has produced an ...
Charles Fairchild
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