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Collecting memories of the museum experience

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013
When we go to the museum, we see many interesting objects that have fascinating stories related to them. However, visitors do not often share these experiences with people that have not visited the exhibition. Sharing is beneficial both because it can create interest and attract people to the museum, and because it can help people who cannot attend the
Galena Kostoska, Denise Fezzi, Beatrice Valeri, Marcos Báez, Fabio Casati, Samuela Caliari, Stefania Tarter   +6 more
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Museum Collecting and Collections

2017
Collecting is a central activity to museums. Object-based learning is the underlying principle that museums use to tell their stories to the public through different media such as exhibits, programs, classes, books, and activities. Collecting in museums is usually directed by curators who conduct research, create new knowledge, and present their work ...
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Museum collection management on-demand

Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance, 2008
In this case study, we trace the rationale, development and operation of the Integrated Museum Collection Management System as a software-as-a-service solution for public as well as private museums in Singapore. This on-demand service may serve as a model for other public services particularly in the context of business process re-engineering and ...
Steven Wu, Philip Chua
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Museums and Collections

2020
The chapter “Museums and Collections” gives the reader detailed information about the collections of important museums (e.g., in Athens, Beijing, Berlin, Bletchley Park, Bonn, Clermont-Ferrand, Dresden, Florence, Kassel, London, Madrid, Manchester, Melbourne, Milan, Mountain View, Munich, Neuchâtel, Ottawa, Oxford, Paderborn, Paris, Stockholm ...
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Museums, collections and biodiversity inventories

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1993
Natural history museums area at a turning point in their history. To play a central role in research on biodiversity, they must change their mode of operation and public image. Collections have grown in a haphazard manner, depending on the interests and preferences of successive curators.
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Collecting Social Media in Museums

Collecting Social Media in Museums draws attention to the importance of collecting social media as museum objects and explores the role of rapid response and born-digital collecting in documenting social history as it happens.Drawing on a range of case studies and facilitated conversations with museum professionals and technology experts, the book ...
Craig Middleton, Caroline Wilson-Barnao
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Museums, collections and collecting in the Arab world

International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, 1985
Abstract Museums are of very recent vintage throughout the Arab world, be they repositories of antiquities, ethnographical material or contemporary art. Few Arab countries, other than Iraq and Egypt, have formal museums dating from before 1950. Those museums open today have more often appeared not just during the 1950s, 1960s or 1970s, but only in ...
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Reimagining the future of natural history museums with compassionate collection

PLoS Biology, 2023
Allison Q Byrne
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Museums And Collections

Plains Anthropologist, 1963
Wesley R. Hurt, W. E. Eigsti, Vivian Paladin   +2 more
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Hereford Museum Collections Hereford Museum Collections

2022
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