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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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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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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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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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Literary Literacy as Situated Practice: Teacher and Mediator Beliefs in a Writers' House Museum
Literacy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the beliefs of secondary school teachers of ‘Valencian Language and Literature’ (official subject title in Valencian secondary education, where Catalan is officially referred to as Valencian) and of mediators at the Joan Fuster House‐Museum (Sueca, Spain), regarding the literary mediation and literacy practices developed ...
Javier Roig‐López +1 more
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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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What Museum Guests Think About When They Think About Belonging
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 198-213, April 2026.ABSTRACT A sense of belonging is one of the most fundamental human needs and is threaded through all aspects of a museum guest's experience. Using a previously validated model and survey of belonging in museums, we surveyed 1780 guests leaving eight different museums and similar cultural institutions across the United States.
C. Aaron Price +3 more
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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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From Unremembered to Overremembered. Gender in the Holocaust Museums of Hungary and Slovakia
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 166-176, April 2026.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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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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