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Native Empowerment, the New Museology, and the National Museum of the American Indian

Museum & Society, 2014
The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC ― the first national museum devoted solely to the presentation and support of the indigenous cultures of the Americas ― opened its doors to the public on 21 September 2004.
Kristine Ronan
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Decolonising the curriculum [PDF]

, 2022
Funding: The ICOM Special Project on Museums, Community Action and Decolonisation led by ICOFOM (2019- 2022), and the Scottish Funding Council SARRF “Shared Histories” project 2021.Since the upheaval of social movements for the liberation of formal ...

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Museums for the Planet: Critical Realist Philosophy and the Possibility of an Eco-decolonial Museology

, 2021
This study introduces dialectical critical realism into museology as a philosophical underlabourer for the development of new theoretical potentials for the transformation of museum practice.
Jeffery, Thomas Carnegie
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Reconfigurations of Time: Reflections on the Exhibition, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, UBC Museum of Anthropology

Museum & Society, 2021
This article reflects on the exhibition Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America, showing how the project challenged common representations of Central and South American art and history by displaying local, often Indigenous, ways of ...
Laura Osorio Sunnucks
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The Future of Tradition in Museology : Materials for a discussion

, 2019
Thirty years ago, Kenneth Hudson, the grand old figure of the European museum world, said that there are chiefly two qualities that will be demanded of the museums in the future: pluralism of interest and the flexibility of imagination.

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THE ANONYMOUS NARRATIVE: INTERPRETING HISTORY THROUGH VISUAL ANALYSIS [PDF]

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The article presents a research-creative project, which examines the concept of “anonymous narratives” through the study of a woven raffia artifact held at the Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar, Senegal.
Savina TOPURSKA
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Post-Modernising the Museum: The Ration Shed

Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2014
The application of postmodern critical theory to the essentially modernist construct of the museum has significantly impacted the role of the contemporary museum within society. This article briefly describes the movement toward a ‘new museology’ and the
Carly Smith
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Why Collect Science?

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2017
In this critical assessment of the ‘museology of science’ I cherry-pick recent scholarship and practice to unpack the functions of science collections. Some practices (exhibition, engagement, study) have already attracted considerable attention, others ...
Samuel J M M Alberti
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La museología de la ruptura en las exposiciones de Fernando Estévez González

Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares
In response to a traditional museology that considered ethnological and anthropological museums as mere storage warehouses for objects from the colonial era, a new form of museology emerged, focusing more on people than objects, with a component of ...
Francisca Hernández Hernández
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Break! On the unpleasant, the marginal, the taboo, and the controversial in Norwegian museums [PDF]

The Open Arts Journal, 2014
This paper explores the programme entitled Break, which was launched within a grouping of Norwegian museums in 2003. Break emerged in the context of a more critical approach to museum practice and their ways of dealing with controversial pasts in the ...
Liv Ramskjaer
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