Palimpsests of Immaterial Assemblages Taken out of Context: Tracing Pompeians from the Void into the Digital [PDF]
This paper explores some ontological aspects of archaeological voids and enclosures together with their translations and substitutions, and considers the nature of spaces within material archaeological deposits and artefacts.
Paul Reilly
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De la classification scientifique des instruments de musique
This article focuses on the development of organology, the science of musical instruments, in the course of the 20th Century, and on the specific understanding of musical instruments that this science promotes.
Judith Dehail
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New technology in Museums: AR and VR video games are coming
Museums have gone through a modernization process which has seen the adoption of new technologies in what they offer visitors. Within the framework of the new critical museology, these organizations have been transformed into places of encounter and ...
Irene Camps-Ortueta +2 more
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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling +2 more
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"Language at Work: Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and Museum Contexts", Edited by Helen de Silva Joyce Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2016, pp. 277 [PDF]
The reviewed volume "Language at Work" explores the language used in a variety of workplace contexts ranging from call centres through secondary schools and hospitals to museums.
Castello, Erik
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The “narrative sincerity” in museums, architectural and archaeological restoration of Franco Minissi
The Italian historiography of the architecture of the second half of the Twentieth century has not given due weight to the dialectic qualities of work of Franco Minissi on ancient structures.
Beatrice A. Vivio
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Literary Literacy as Situated Practice: Teacher and Mediator Beliefs in a Writers' House Museum
ABSTRACT This article examines the beliefs of secondary school teachers of ‘Valencian Language and Literature’ (official subject title in Valencian secondary education, where Catalan is officially referred to as Valencian) and of mediators at the Joan Fuster House‐Museum (Sueca, Spain), regarding the literary mediation and literacy practices developed ...
Javier Roig‐López +1 more
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Manet, museum, modernism: Michel Foucault and modernist art history [PDF]
Michel Foucault’s legacy in shaping understanding of the museum and its ideological operations is well established in the field of museum studies. Tony Bennett s adaptation of the disciplinary complex in his exhibitionary complex essay of 1988 ...
Alexander Kauffman
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What Museum Guests Think About When They Think About Belonging
ABSTRACT A sense of belonging is one of the most fundamental human needs and is threaded through all aspects of a museum guest's experience. Using a previously validated model and survey of belonging in museums, we surveyed 1780 guests leaving eight different museums and similar cultural institutions across the United States.
C. Aaron Price +3 more
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The Space of Reception: Framing Autonomy and Collaboration [PDF]
In this paper we analyse the ideas implicit in the style of exhibition favoured by contemporary galleries and museums, and argue that unless the audience is empowered to ascribe meaning and significance to artwork through critical dialogue, the power not
Gilchrist, Carol A. +1 more
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