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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 Starmach Gallery in Kraków: The Gallery of Contemporary Art in a Former Jewish House of Prayer [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne DedičstvoThe 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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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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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland
Museum & SocietyThis 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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THE CASE OF CAPOGROSSI IN ROME: COLLECTING DATA WITH DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES ON A CONTEMPORARY MURAL PAINTING [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 This paper focuses on the presentation of a part of the main thematic data documenting the pathologies and the degradation problems of a contemporary mural painting, which was designed and carried out by the italian artist Giuseppe Capogrossi in 1954 ...
P. Mezzadri, J. Russo
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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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Desiring the past and reimagining the present: contemporary collecting in Qatar
Museum & Society, 2017 The collecting processes in Qatar at state level is intimately linked with the construction of a new Qatari identity for global consumption and national cohesion.
Karen Exell
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Slovenský Národopis, 2021 Collecting activities were an important cultural and social phenomenon in 19th century Europe. Women also participated in these activities, although in many cultures their role and the results of their collecting work have not yet been adequately ...
Urbancová Hana
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Collecting Coins and Medals in 18th-Century Sweden
Artium Quaestiones, 2023 During the 18th century, collections of coins and medals were familiar sights. The collectors ranged from scholars to amateurs, men and women and the collectables tempted collectors for various reasons: they signified wealth and knowledge, they rendered ...
Ylva Haidenthaller
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