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Colonial museology and the Buddhist chronicles of Sri Lanka: agency and negotiation in the development of the palm-leaf manuscript collection at the Colombo Museum [PDF]
The roles of colonial museums in South Asia have been understood in terms of the dissemination of museology within the British Empire. This has often underplayed the participation of local intellectuals in the formation of museum collections, and thus ...
Sweet,JD
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Since the Brooklyn Children’s Museum opened in 1899, the concept of the children’s museum has evolved internationally as a non-profit public institution focused on informal family-centred education and interactive play environments (Acosta 2000; Allen ...
Naomi Hamer
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Zuzanna Dziuban +2 more
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The Museum on the Edge of Forever [PDF]
This article argues that understanding any space or site relies on a knowledge of its fourth dimension - the timescape. It will explore this by situating the investigation in the museum - a place of heightened contrivance which could easily be shallowly ...
Walklate, Jenny
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Toward an Anticolonial, Non-Aligned Yugoslav Museum: Concept, Institution, Meta-Exhibit
In recent decades, provenance research has become one of the most inter- esting areas of academic enquiry, particularly in response to the reorganization and establishment of new “museums of world cultures” amid globalization.
Nataša Jagdhuhn
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Museum education is a subdiscipline of Pedagogy which has been changing rapidly during the current century. The beginning of such education was inevitably related to the origin of the museum.
Mallek Anna
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Alexander Dorner, The Way Beyond “Museum”
In 1927 El Lisitskij makes his "second exhibition space" for the Landesmuseum in Hannover, the famous Kabinett der Abstrakten thanks to which Gropius wrote, "the visitor could contemplate and understand abstract paintings in a suitable architectural ...
Stefania Zuliani
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This essay contributes to the 10th Anniversary Special Issue of plaNext – Next Generation Planning by offering reflections and ideas for inspiring a renewed roadmap in planning theory and practice that more systematically incorporates tools and contents
Elisa (Lizzy) Privitera
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Post-Modernising the Museum: The Ration Shed
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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Archaeoacoustics, an interdisciplinary field that combines archaeology, acoustics and computer modeling, traditionally researches the sonic dimensions of ancient cultures, revealing insights beyond conventional methods.
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