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

Museum & 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
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Science Education and Bureaucratization of Fieldwork

Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2022
The establishment of a network of collaborators in nineteenth-century Serbia, dedicated to scientific rock specimen collecting, required ongoing negotiation with the state administration over allocation of resources, including the mobilization of state ...
Dejan Lukic
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THE RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF METHODIST TICKETS, AND ASSOCIATED PRACTICES OF COLLECTING AND RECOLLECTING, 1741-2017 [PDF]

, 2019
Among all the paper ephemera surviving from eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain, the humble Methodist ticket has attracted little attention from scholars and collectors. Issued quarterly to members as a testimonial to religious conduct, many
Lloyd, Sarah
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Festschrift: of mice and myths: challenges and opportunities of capturing contemporary science in museums

Science 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
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Cover Illustration: The Well-Dressed Entomologist [PDF]

, 2017
This issue\u27s cover illustration is the frontispiece to a classic work of eighteenth-century entomology, Moses Harris\u27 The Aurelian, which began to appear in parts in 1758 and was published entire in 1766 (Lisney, 1960).
Wilkinson, Ronald S.
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The Starmach Gallery in Kraków: The Gallery of Contemporary Art in a Former Jewish House of Prayer [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
The adaptation of the former Jewish Zucker House of Prayer as a gallery of contemporary art is a unique phenomenon due to both the complicated history of the heritage building itself and the unique personality of the current owner.
Anna Jasińska, Artur Jasiński
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Collections in Atonement, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Bring up the bodies, and Cloud Atlas: A prelude

Scripta, 2020
I will read the fascination with collectors and collecting in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies (2012), and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) regarding at ...
Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá
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Colecionar arte: conversas a partir de coleções particulares

Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares, 2016
In this article, we present the project “Collecting Art: Conversations about Private Collections” developed by the Associação Amigos do Museu do Chiado (Friends of the Museu do Chiado Association), consisting of an invitation to private collectors to ...
Adelaide Duarte
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Conserver et documenter les pratiques pédagogiques contemporaines des lycées : l’exemple du musée national de l’Éducation

In Situ, 2021
The Musée national de l’ Éducation in Rouen preserves approximately 950,000 items, of which a significant part concerns the history of lycées, France’s high schools. As an history museum and a social museum as well, it also takes interest in contemporary
Nicolas Coutant
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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland 

Museum & Society
This paper explores the mineral specimens held by the Science and Technology department at National Museums Scotland (NMS). It examines what these objects and their provenance reveal about the Museum’s collecting methods and how they reflect and ...
Georgina Grant, Ellie Swinbank
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