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A Museum for Me: Activities, Practices, and Products to Foment Engagement With Human Rights in Museum Spaces in Colombia

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of an international interdisciplinary research project that has collaborated with community groups and museums in Colombia. It proposes that there are potential benefits in rethinking the museum “from below”, using the concept of the museum as a memory prop to work with communities to document, create, curate,
Claire Taylor, Ailsa Peate, Lucia Brandi, Patricia Barrera, Camilo Sánchez, María Mónica Fuentes Leal, Rob Miles, Cecilia Andrea Acosta Sánchez, Andrew Robertson   +8 more
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Compositional and Microstructural Evolution of Longquan Celadon from the Southern Song to Ming Periods: Implications for Color and Firing Behavior

Inorganics
This 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, Wenjun Fang, Ying Liu, Riqin Shan, Hui Zhang, Junming Wu, Tao Fang, Yong Huang   +7 more
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There Is a Story Behind This Object: The University Museum as a Stage

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objects are a critical part of most museum exhibitions and their purpose within a university museum setting is linked to the stories they carry and how these are in turn communicated to museum visitors. This paper explores these stories through the practice of museum theater, which uses performance to bring historical stories within the museum
Stephanie Jenkins
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Formation Mechanism of Crystal Spots in Jian Kiln Oil-Spot Glaze Revealed by Simulation Experiments

Applied Sciences
The 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, Junming Wu, Jianer Zhou, Ting Luo, Qifu Bao, Kun Liu   +5 more
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Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Pedro Weingärtner's La Faiseuse d'Anges (A Fazedora de Anjos, 1908) stands as one of the most unsettling artefacts of Brazilian academic painting. Conceived in Rome but rooted in the Parisian fait divers of the ‘angel‐maker,’ it translates a sensational story of reproductive crime into a monumental moral tableau.
Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
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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, Jincheng Yu, Tao Wang, Wu Xiaohong, Hao Shougang, Xueping Ma, Zhengkai Xia   +6 more
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Lower Limb Entheseal Variation in Modern Athletes and an Early Medieval Population: Implications for Activity Reconstruction

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Entheses are commonly used to infer past activity patterns, yet their interpretation is limited by the combined effects of mechanical loading and intrinsic biological factors. This study addresses this issue by integrating an Early Medieval population from Pohansko (Czechia; 9th–10th centuries CE) with a Spanish modern professional ...
Elena García‐Vargas, Jiří Macháček, Ángel Luis Parrado‐Gallego, Enrique Alcalá, Víctor Manuel Encinas‐Tobajas, Markus Bastir, Vladimír Sládek   +6 more
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Neolithic ceramic figurines

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, David Hons, Vojtěch Nosek, Peter Tóth, Patrik Urban   +4 more
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Behind the Curtain: COVID‐19 as a Lens to Precarity in Museum Labor

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 323-331, July 2026.
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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Curating the Unexpected: Stéphane Thidet's “Weeping Stones” Transformed During COVID‐19

Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 437-447, July 2026.
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, Sefy Hendler, Asaf Ben‐David, Darya Aloufy   +3 more
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