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Collecting Rooms: Objects, Identities and Domestic Spaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This practice-based enquiry into United Kingdom based collecting rooms reveals five participants’ motivations, frustrations and satisfactions manifested in the creation of their spaces.
Vale, Sam
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Collecting Contemporary Home Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
With a renewed interest in evocative ensembles on the one hand, and a museological focus on contemporaneity on the other, it is remarkable that debates on collecting contemporary home life have overlooked the concept of a modern period room. Outside the museum context, however, furniture stores, construction firms and estate agents try to tempt ...
Groffen, Mayke
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Collecting COVID-19 at National Museums Scotland

open access: yesMuseum & 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
doaj   +1 more source

Writers, Manuscripts, Collectors: Modern Authorship and the Fin-de-Siècle Origins of the Literary Archive

open access: yesAuthorship, 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Cardiovascular Risk Distribution in a Contemporary Polish Collective [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Heritage in a digital world : Algorithms, data, and future value generation

open access: yesLimina, 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
doaj   +1 more source

From 2D to 3D: the story of graphene in objects

open access: yesScience 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
doaj   +1 more source

Vladimir R. Đorđević’s contribution to the development of ethnoorganology [PDF]

open access: yesMuzikologija, 2020
In the versatile musical activity of Vladimir R. Đorđević at the turn of the 20 century, his research work on collecting primarily traditional Serbian melodies, the smaller portion of which refers to instrumental music expression, is of ...
Zakić Mirjana
doaj   +1 more source

New Futures for Old Collections - Contemporary Collecting and Community Involvement at the National Museum of Denmark

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2017
In recognition of altered global relations since colonial times, the Ethnographic Collections at the National Museum of Denmark have identified a need to redefine their role in society.
Mille Gabriel
doaj   +1 more source

Festschrift: of mice and myths: challenges and opportunities of capturing contemporary science in museums

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2020
The Science Museum collects artifacts, not organisms. This rule has applied in the Museum ever since its foundation; but in 1989 the rule was apparently broken by our Department of Physical Sciences, which acquired two mice for its permanent collections.[
Alison Boyle
doaj   +1 more source

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