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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 373-389, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 413-424, July 2026.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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Nordisk MuseologiThis article is an edited version of an inaugural lecture as professor of museology at Aarhus University, Denmark, on September 22, 2023. It targeted colleagues from Danish museums and universities and students.
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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 402-412, July 2026.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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HeritageLanguage tourism combines language learning with cultural exploration and offers new opportunities for engaging visitors with local linguistic heritage.
Matina Kiourexidou +2 more
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Magnetic Fabric: A Geophysical Approach for Identifying China's Neolithic Rammed Earth
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 27, Issue 6, June 2026.Abstract Accurate identification of rammed‐earth remains is essential for understanding early social complexity in Neolithic China. However, scientific methods for identifying rammed‐earth materials in Chinese prehistoric archeology remain limited, and identification still rely largely on field observations.
Fen Wang +15 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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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 475-497, April/June 2026.ABSTRACT Neolithic long barrows are among the earliest monumental structures in Europe, yet in many parts of Central Europe their surface expression has been largely erased by long‐term agricultural activity. This study evaluates the potential of integrated remote sensing approaches for identifying and contextualizing long barrows and associated ...
Petr Krištuf +5 more
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Heritage Science, 2019 Here we first report a piece of K2O–PbO–SiO2 ancient glass opacified by fluorite dendrites with archaeological background. This piece of glass was excavated from Nanhai I shipwreck, a merchant ship once heading for Southeast Asia, but sinking near ...
Yihang Zhou +5 more
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