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Museology: an academic discipline or form of cultural activity?
Tyragetia, 2013 Museology is the science of museums. Most experts characterize it as an independent applied scientific discipline, which studies how museums develop and optimize their activities to meet the needs of society.
Elena Ploşniţa
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An Examination of Museology in Japan: Current Trends and Future Directions
Museum, Materials and DiscussionsThis paper explores the present state and prospective developments of museology as an academic discipline in Japan. It begins with an overview of the current conditions of museums and the field of museology in the country.
Hidenori Kurita
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fears of widespread permanent closures of museums expressed at the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic prompted our research to monitor closures and other museum behavior in 2021–2022. We wanted to understand how the UK sector changed in this period. Which museums closed, and what factors were at work in their closure?
Mark Liebenrood +5 more
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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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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling +2 more
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InorganicsThis study examines technological change in Longquan celadon from the Dayao kiln-site area by asking three related questions: how body and glaze compositions changed from the Southern Song to the Yuan and Ming periods; how these compositional changes ...
Peng Xing +7 more
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Gender Attitudes Roles Evaluation in Collections‐Based Organizations: Overcoming the Gender Bias
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Collections‐based organizations (CBOs) have historically been institutions that reinforce values and power structures including gender inequalities. However, in recent decades, feminism and critical theory have promoted significant changes in how CBOs address gender issues in their collections, exhibitions, and educational programmes ...
Mar Gaitán
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Formation Mechanism of Crystal Spots in Jian Kiln Oil-Spot Glaze Revealed by Simulation Experiments
Applied SciencesThe crystalline morphology and glaze color of Jian Kiln oil-spot glaze porcelain exhibit artistic beauty, making it one of the typical representatives of iron-based crystallized black porcelain from the Song Dynasty in China.
Caishui Jiang +5 more
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Archeologické Rozhledy, 2020 The article aims to present the results of the analysis of eight Neolithic ceramic figurines from the Lengyel culture settlement Těšetice-Kyjovice – Sutny, Czech Republic.
Ludmila Kaňáková +4 more
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More Inspired, Less Anxious: Well‐Being Impacts of a Self‐Directed Art Museum Visit
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasingly, art museums are seen as places that can support human flourishing. We describe a quasi‐experimental investigation of the impacts of a self‐directed art museum visit on adults' subjective well‐being. Data were collected from 363 adults at three art museums in Seattle, WA.
Jessica J. Luke +18 more
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