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Theorizing Born Digital Objects: Museums and Contemporary Materialities
Museum & Society, 2021 This paper explores the characteristics of born digital objects and how their materiality is framed and transformed in the musealization process. It draws on vibrant materialism and web archiving, framing born digital objects as assemblages and proposing
Chiara Zuanni
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Smart and sustainable: collecting urban transport and mobility innovation in the 2020s
Science Museum Group Journal, 2022 How can museums collect transport objects to reflect the changes that we can see happening on the streets around us today? Much of what is changing relates to behaviour and integrated transport systems, both of which lack material ‘objects’ to collect ...
Meredith Greiling
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Acquisition Fund: An unrecognised treasure within the cultural policy of the Czech Republic [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2021 The paper elaborates on the Acquisition Fund for Contemporary Art established in 2017 in the Czech Republic by the Ministry of Culture. Paradoxically, this fund is perceived both positively and negatively by various institutions.
Lucia Horňáková, Marek Prokůpek
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Exhibiting Refugee Routes: Contemporary Collecting as Memory Politics
Museum & Society, 2021 In recent years, numerous European museums have collected objects related to refugees. This article examines the Flight for Life (På Flugt) exhibition (2017), which the National Museum of Denmark organized based on a contemporary collecting project that ...
Randi Marselis
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Collecting COVID-19 at National Museums Scotland
Museum & Society, 2020 This opinion piece discusses National Museums Scotland’s first responses to collecting COVID-19. Drawing on perspectives from social history, biomedical science and military history, this short paper contextualizes COVID-related collecting within the ...
Sarah Laurenson +2 more
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Authorship, 2023 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, collecting authors’ material remains developed from a private pursuit into a public mission, a history that is coupled to the emergence of modern institutions such as the research library and the ...
Tim Sommer
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Cardiovascular Risk Distribution in a Contemporary Polish Collective [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of selected risk factors for cardiovascular disease (hypertension, overweight, obesity, carbohydrate metabolism disorders, a positive family history, a lack of physical activity), and to estimate the risk of a cardiovascular incident according to the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE ...
Anita Liput-Sikora +6 more
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Heritage in a digital world : Algorithms, data, and future value generation
Limina, 2020 Chiara ZuanniThis paper aims to examine the values of born-digital heritage. It focuses on the impact on museum and heritage practices of digital data as consti-tuting heritage objects.
Zuanni, Chiara
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Archives of wonder: Collecting the liminal in contemporary art [PDF]
, 2017 In his essay for the 2002 Biennale of Sydney catalogue, curator Richard Grayson asserts, “Our idea of an objective world is a shared hypothesis”.1 This statement encapsulates the underlying tension that lies at the heart of this chapter: the collective ...
Shafran, Tiffany
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From 2D to 3D: the story of graphene in objects
Science Museum Group Journal, 2018 First isolated using sticky tape in Manchester in 2004, graphene is a nanoscience breakthrough which has captured the imagination of the press and the scientific community.
Sarah Baines
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