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Building stories -- the art of the project manager in exhibition development : an analysis of Death and Diversity at Wellington Museum : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Museum Studies, at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis examines the role of both project management and the project manager in museum exhibition development at one museum. Specifically it investigates the necessity of such practice and the various inherent factors that lead to exhibition ...
Fafeita, Brent Raymond
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A contribution to the anatomy of two rare cetacean species: The hourglass dolphin (Cephalorhynchus cruciger) and the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The anatomical description of the hourglass dolphin (Cephalorhynchus cruciger) and the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) remains largely unexplored, due to limited specimen availability and preservation challenges. This study employed digital imaging techniques, conventional histology, and computed tomography to provide visualization of
Jean‐Marie Graïc, Tommaso Gerussi, Bruno Cozzi, Rebecca M. Boys, Brian Chin Wing Kot, Matthew R. Perrott, Kane Fleury, Tabris Yik To Chung, Henry Chun Lok Tsui, Emma Burns, Trudi Webster, Stuart Hunter, Emma L. Betty, Odette Howarth, Carolina Loch, Sophie White, Steve Dawson, William Rayment, Ros Cole, Derek Cox, Tom Waterhouse, Hannah Hendriks, Anton van Helden, Muriel Johnstone, Ramari Oliphant Stewart, R. Ewan Fordyce, Karen A. Stockin   +26 more
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Les trois boucles. Notes sur les modes d’existence des films d’artistes

Perspective, 2019
As material resulting from industrial production, film is technically reproducible and thus does not seem, at first sight, to pose particular problems in terms of its “multiple” existence. However, when one observes in detail the material culture and the
Enrico Camporesi
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Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
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Coyote\u27s Tale on the Old Oregon Trail: Challenging Cultural Memory through Narrative at the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute [PDF]

, 2005
This essay examines the oppositional narratives presented in a Native American museum in order to explore the efficacy of narrative as both a strategy for resistance to hegemonic narratives of the settling of the West and a medium for sharing culture ...
Miller, Jackson B.
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The revision of baphetids from the Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: Morphology, ontogeny, palaeoecology, and the reassessment of the phylogeny of Baphetoidea

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The baphetoids represent a clade of the Carboniferous stem‐tetrapods (Middle Mississippian—Middle Pennsylvanian) with a characteristic extension of the orbits into antorbital vacuities, which formed keyhole‐shaped openings on the skull. The more derived baphetids were crocodile‐like piscivores frequently occurring in coal‐bearing lacustrine ...
Pavel Barták, Martin Ivanov, Boris Ekrt
wiley   +1 more source

Musées, colonialisme, indépendance : figures du donateur

Perspective, 2017
From a Maussian perspective, this article raises the question of donations to museums in Algiers over the long term, from colonization to the present day.
Bernadette N. Saou-Dufrêne, Amel Djenidi   +1 more
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Revisiting a long‐overlooked skull: Implications for the distribution of Dinodontosaurus brevirostris (Kannemeyeriiformes) in the Brazilian Triassic

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dicynodonts (Anomodontia: Dicynodontia) were one of the main groups of terrestrial tetrapods in Permian and Triassic faunas. In Brazil, the genus Dinodontosaurus is one of the most common tetrapod taxon in the Triassic Santa Maria Supersequence. This genus has a complex taxonomic history and is represented in the Triassic of both Argentina and
Julia Lara Rodrigues de Souza, João Lucas Da Silva, Voltaire D. P. Neto, Arielli Fabrício Machado, Juan A. Escobar, Felipe L. Pinheiro   +5 more
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Héros malgré lui : le bureau de la signature du traité de Versailles

Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
This article examines the unusual history of a seemingly ordinary eighteenth-century writing desk that has been in the Château de Versailles collection since 1914.
Claire Bonnotte Khelil
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Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Investigations of bone microanatomy are commonly used to explore lifestyle strategies in vertebrates. While distinct microanatomical limb bone features have been established for exclusively aquatic and terrestrial lifestyles, identifying clear patterns for the semiaquatic lifestyle remains more challenging.
Apolline Alfsen, Christian de Muizon, Olivier Lambert, Giovanni Bianucci, Antonia R. Kaffler, Matthew R. McCurry, Alexandra Houssaye, Rafael M. Varas‐Malca, Rodolfo Salas‐Gismondi, Oliver Hampe, Eli Amson   +10 more
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