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The Collection of Tattoos of the Museum of Criminal Anthropology “Cesare Lombroso” and of the Museum of Human Anatomy, University of Turin (Italy)

Abstract This chapter traces evolution of the collections of tattoos focusing on the contributions of Cesare Lombroso, the founder of the Criminal Anthropology at the University of Turin and his theory of criminal atavism, posting tattoos as a sign of reversion to a primitive state. It presents the system of classification he devised for
Cilli, Cristina, Giacobini, Giacomo, Leschiutta, Pierpaolo, Manni, Franz, Montaldo, Silvano   +4 more
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Why Play in Museums? A Review of the Outcomes of Playful Museum Initiatives

Journal of Museum Education
This article presents a qualitative review of 38 peer-reviewed studies on how play has been applied in museums. The objective of the review is to analyze the outcomes of playful initiatives to advance our understanding of the reasons for and effects of ...
Anne Rørbæk Olesen, Nanna Holdgaard
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‘We cannot, nor do we have the right to speak forgiveness for the grandmothers’: a study of visitor comment books at the Chinese Comfort Women Historical Museum in Shanghai

Museum Management and Curatorship
This research underscores the critical role of museums in interpreting difficult heritage and fostering public reflection. By examining visitor comment books at the Chinese Comfort Women Historical Museum in Shanghai, this study analyses visitor ...
Fan Bu, Yingqi Chen, Yujie Zhu, Siyi Wang   +3 more
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Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts

Museum Worlds
In this article, we look at collections of Zulu beadwork at Manchester Museum and Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History tracing their provenances and social biographies.
Njabulo Chipangura, Motsane Getrude Seabela   +1 more
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The role of the museum shop in sustainable futures

Museum Management and Curatorship
In recent years the museum shop has been recognized as an important part of the broader organization, both in its economic contribution and its cultural impact on the visitor experience.
Jamie Larkin, V. Oliveira, Queen Allotey-Pappoe   +2 more
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Toward Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Museum Collections Management Systems

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
Museums still struggle with colonial data legacies within collections management systems, building mechanisms to be “inclusive” but challenged by how to model more expansive post-colonial ways of thinking. Although it anticipated a need to be “inclusive”
K. Lewis
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The Urbanized Museum

Museum and Society
In the contemporary world of social change, accelerated mobility and plural identities, the creation of open and inclusive environments seems to be a recurrent aim at all levels from cities to buildings and to museums in particular.
K. Tzortzi
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Enriching Museum Collection with Virtual Design Objects and Community Narratives: Pop-up-VR Museum

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals
In the Pop-up-VR Museum, a selection of design objects from the Design Museum collection can be explored as virtual reality experience together with stories and comments collected in workshops organized with senior communities and museum visitors amongst
Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Leena Svinhufvud, Susanna Thiel, Gautam Vishwanath   +3 more
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Study examines parent–child families’ interactions with exhibits in natural history museum

Museum Management and Curatorship
This study aims to examine how parent–child families interact with exhibits while visiting a natural history museum. The study included 71 parent–child families with children aged 3–12 visiting the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History.
Shangshang Zhu, Lu Zhang, Yenan Dong, Wenjie Li, Qin Guo   +4 more
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The Lombroso Museum. "Cesare Lombroso" Museum of criminal anthropology University of Turin

This is the new edition of the Lombroso Museum catalogue, following the first in 2009 and the second in 2015, which has been extensively redesigned in terms of editorial structure, themes and iconographic apparatus. The revision is the fruit of research by various scholars over the last few years on the museum's collections, research that has made it ...
Montaldo Silvano, Cilli Cristina
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