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Characterizing ancient jade by on-site analysis in Sanxingdui, China

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2023
Characterized by various materials, types and patterns, ancient jade is a unique symbol of Chinese civilization. However, crucial information can be jeopardized by the sudden exposure during excavations, and abundant jade artefacts were stored without ...
Hao Lu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of Museum of Our Own: In Search of Local Museology for Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Since the publication of the seminal volume by MacDonald and Fyfe (1996) which calls for a theorization of museums in terms of their contexts, contests and contents, there have been many endeavours to rethink and reconceptualise the museum, to consider ...
Cai, Y
core  

Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals

open access: yesMolecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 7, October 2025.
ABSTRACT In the last three decades, DNA sequencing of ancient animal osteological assemblages has become an important tool complementing standard archaeozoological approaches to reconstruct the history of animal domestication. However, osteological assemblages of key archaeological contexts are not always available or do not necessarily preserve enough
Kuldeep D. More   +64 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of Museology in 1930s China: Western Influences and Early Reflections

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 656-672, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the emergence of museology in China during the 1930s, tracing its development through the establishment of the Museums Association of China and the analysis of early publications. It examines the influence of Western concepts on Chinese museum theory and practice, particularly regarding exhibition techniques.
Daphné Sterk
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Digitization in Museums: The Lithuanian Case

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 612-621, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Owing to the threat of closure owing to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many museums have shifted to online communication. This study examined how museum digitization practices changed during the COVID‐19 pandemic, according to Lithuanian museum professionals.
Aya Kimura
wiley   +1 more source

Curated routes: the project of developing experiential tracks in sub-urban landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Curated Routes project reflects on the visiting routes’ ability to make apparent the internal characteristics of urban environments. The project’s name allude to the intellectual function of curation and the materiality of routes.
Papathanasiou, Maximi   +1 more
core   +1 more source

The Talking Rocks in the Children’s Gallery

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 648-655, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This exhibition review explores Kingdom of Kindness: Abdul Abdullah, an immersive exhibition at HOTA's (Home of the Arts) Children's Gallery on the Gold Coast, Australia. Originating from a collaborative project with Surfers Paradise State School, the exhibition reflected the multicultural backgrounds of the students and Abdul Abdullah's ...
Fernanda Maziero Junqueira
wiley   +1 more source

Our Place in New Zealand Culture: How the Museum of New Zealand Constructs Biculturalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa opened in 1998 amidst controversy but has been a huge popular success and has become an icon of national identity.
Goldsmith, Michael
core   +1 more source

Critical Museology

open access: yesMuseum Worlds, 2013
Synthesizing work carried out by the author over the past twenty-five years, this article proposes a tentative disciplinary definition of critical museology, distinguishing its related methodological interdictions and describing its distinctiveness from what is here defined as operational museology.
openaire   +1 more source

Decolonization and the politics of display: A case study from the National Museum of Qatar

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
Abstract The exhibition “On the Move: Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism” was the flagship exhibition organized by the National Museum of Qatar for the World Cup 2022 period. The exhibition aimed to contextualize the nomadic past of Qatar within a broader, global cultural frame, as well as to create an ethnographic exhibition that would be appealing to a ...
Alexandra Bounia
wiley   +1 more source

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