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Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators [PDF]
, 2013 Museum exhibitions are literacy rich environments. Visitors may engage with a range of texts including texts that constitute the exhibition objects themselves, those that convey information about the objects and those that instruct visitors about how the
Aubusson, PJ +6 more
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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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A study on an early Neolithic site in North China
Documenta Praehistorica, 2003 These are few sites about 10 000 BP in the early Neolithic period in North China; among these, the Donghulin site is the only one which included the remains of peoples' use of fire (hearth pits), stone implements, pottery objects, and human tombs.
Chaodong Zhao +6 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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Heritage ScienceAncient wooden constructions, also known as wooden cultural relics, refers to ancient wood that has been modified or crafted by human activities. To ensure its preservation, it is crucial to gain further understanding of the decomposition mechanisms ...
Biao Wang +4 more
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Reconocer la diversidad de la museología. Reflexiones a partir del caso español
Midas: Museus e Estudos InterdisciplinaresMuseology has been defined and theorised in various ways, halfway between theory and practice. After long debates about what has long been seen as a dichotomy between these two perspectives, the growing development of museology in the global context ...
Fabien Van Geert
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For scientists, for students or for the public? : the shifting roles of natural history museums [PDF]
, 2010 This article aims to discuss the main roles of natural history museums and to show how these purposes have evolved and adapted throughout the museums’ history, as a response to the development of natural sciences and societal change, from their creation ...
Delicado, Ana
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Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services [PDF]
, 2018 In recent years geographers have paid attention to the practices and spaces of care, yet museums rarely feature in this body of literature. Drawing on research conducted with two large museum services – one in England, and one in Scotland - this paper ...
Morse, Nuala, Munro, Ealasaid
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Curating the Unexpected: Stéphane Thidet's “Weeping Stones” Transformed During COVID‐19
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A monumental work by French artist Stéphane Thidet became the nexus for an unexpected interaction between an art installation and wildlife. “Weeping Stones,” which presents a desert‐like world, devoid of greenery, was featured in an exhibition we co‐curated at the Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2020.
Tamar Mayer +3 more
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La museïtzació dels monestirs a l’Alt Empordà [PDF]
, 2012 Aquest article està dedicat a la museïtzació dels monestirs visitables de l’Alt Empordà, que actualment són: Sant Pere de Rodes, Santa Maria de Vilabertran, Santa Maria de Roses i Sant Quirze de Colera.
Poch Gardella, Clara
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