From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In museums, the history of the Holocaust is told through various means of exhibition construction, including architecture/space, texts, artifacts, photographs, and digital technologies. The article focuses on the gendered history of the Holocaust in museums as institutions in Central Europe after the illiberal turn and evaluates how (and if ...
Andrea Petö, Borbála Klacsmann
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Back to the Land: Museum Practices, Collections, and Other‐Than‐Human Politics in Southern Chile
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, Mapuche communities' participation has transformed the Mapuche Museum of Cañete. This participation shifted the institution's concept, curation, and conservation practices. From the second half of the 2010s onwards, other‐than‐human politics reshaped the participatory process.
Lucas da Costa Maciel
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Museum Care of Indigenous Cradles: Insights From Consultation With Tribal Communities
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traditional cradles are important objects in many Indigenous American cultures. A historical tendency of museums to overlook Indigenous perspectives on proper object handling and display has often resulted in improper care of culturally sensitive objects in museum collections.
Abby S. Baka +10 more
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Behind the Curtain: COVID‐19 as a Lens to Precarity in Museum Labor
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using in‐depth interviews with emerging and early professional museum workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, this article expands on scholarship around the perceived and actual value of nonprofit labor. It adds qualitative support to the argument that museum labor is real labor—open to exploitation and abuse while constantly negotiated internally ...
Miriam Taylor Fair
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Teaching controversial socio-scientific issues in online exhibits of science museums: Covid-19 on the scene. [PDF]
Discip Interdscip Sci Educ Res, 2023 Sotério C +2 more
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“Simply Amazing and Fantastic”: The Maude Abbott Medical Museum Visitor Book, 2018–2023
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Maude Abbott Medical Museum has a collection of human remains which we believe is appropriate to preserve and use for teaching and research. We wondered to what extent our visitors feel the same way. We categorized all entries in our museum visitor book for 5 years into five groups based on specific words or phrases.
Rick Fraser
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The Abode of the Other (Museums in German Concentration Camps 1933-1945)
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011 In major German concentration camps, museums were set up with the aim of collecting exhibits and displaying them within a Rassenkunde (race science) framework.
Božidar Jezernik
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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Modes of embodiment for an immersed experience in museums: The Royal Tank Museum. [PDF]
PLoS OneAbuhassan LB, Malhis SR.
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A comprehensive database of squirrel distribution and occurrence in South Asia. [PDF]
Biodivers Data J, 2023 Swati U +4 more
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