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L'Innocenza Perduta (Lost Innocence): Conserving a Carrara Marble Statue

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 1997
This paper describes the conservation of 'L'Innocenza Perduta (Lost Innocence)', a marble statue by the Florentine sculptor Emilio Santarelli. As the statue is on open display at University College London and is accessible to the public, it has been ...
Chris Cleere
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Review Article: Resistant visitors and the development of empathy

Museum & Society, 2017
Rose, Julia. Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, paperback £23.95, hardback £49.95, pp. xvi+215. Gokcigdem, Elif M. Fostering Empathy Through Museums.
Amy Levin
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Defining and Redefining American Indian Identity: an Examination of the Role of the Museum in Contemporary Ethnogenesis in the United States

Museum & Society, 2013
As a platform for the display of cultures and a structuring agent in their formation, museums play a unique role in the negotiation of social identities.
Katelyn L. Bolhofner
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Practice Makes ‘Museum People’

Museum & Society, 2017
This article examines how museum work is evaluated, and how it affects museum professionals’ identities. The empirical material consists of biographical interviews of Finnish museum professionals.
Inkeri Hakamies
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Playing with fire: struggling with ‘experience’ and ‘play’ in war tourism

Museum & Society, 2011
This paper takes up the ambiguities of embracing ‘experiential’ and ‘playful’ ways of learning at war sites. It takes as its point of departure the widespread tendencies in the heritage industry to align communication to new emotional and playful ways of
Mads Daugbjerg
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National Identity, International Visitors: Narration and Translation of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum

Museum & Society, 2017
Although many museums nowadays provide multilingual services, translations in museums have not received enough attention from researchers. The issue of how ideology is embedded in museum texts is translated is particularly underresearched.
Chia-Li Chen, Min-Hsiu Liao
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Panoramic, Macro and Micro Multispectral Imaging: An Affordable System for Mapping Pigments on Artworks

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2015
Multispectral imaging systems are used in art examinations to map and identify pigments, binders and areas of retouching. A monochromatic camera is combined with an appropriate wavelength selection system and acquires a variable ...
Antonino Cosentino
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Museums without obstacles: Making exhibitions and expositions accessible to special needs visitors (Múzeá bez bariér Sprístupňovanie výstav a expozícií pre návštevníkov so špeciálnymi potrebami) [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2016
It is not only a legal obligation, but also a moral and ethical imperative, that every cultural institution make itself and its activities accessible to the public which includes people with various special needs.
Lívia Jamrichová
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Using Museum Audio Guides in the Construction of Prosthetic Memory

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2019
The intimacy and affective impact of the audio guide – and the spoken voice – could make it a suitable medium to represent and construct cultural memory.
Laura Bertens, Sara Polak
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“Russenlager” and forced labour. Soviet prisoners of war in Bremen - “home” as a reference for historical memory Creating an exhibition on a voluntary basis: a case study

Museum & Society, 2017
This article focuses on emotional approaches within the framework of the exhibition “Russenlager” and Forced Labour in Bremen. Having traced local events and circumstances related to general historical topics, we expose on 14 displays a network of camps ...
Kerstin True-Biletski, Petra Redert
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