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‘Storage Exhibitions’ in Permanent Museum Collections
, 2021'Storage exhibitions' refer to staged storage areas displayed within a museum's permanent collection. What is the purpose of displaying these storage spaces within a museum's collection?
Gaëlle Crenn
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Preliminary Illinois Bee Species Checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) and use of Museum Collections
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 2020: Climate change and landscape alterations may influence biodiversity by shifting species distributions or causing local extirpations. Museum records are needed in order to track these changes over long periods of time.
Brenna L. Decker +6 more
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Education Collections as Museum Collections
Curator: The Museum Journal, 2004AbstractMuseum education collections are inarguably a part of a museum's actual collection, just as are the research/permanent collections. However, past practices indicate that education collections are typically not given equal stature in museological terms.
Eileen Johnson, Shane J. Macfarlan
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Museum Collections and Taxonomy [PDF]
Science, 2004 Taxonomy is a critical tool in understanding biodiversity, and we applaud the view taken by Q. D. Wheeler et al. (“Taxonomy: impediment or expedient?”, Editorial, 16 Jan., p. [285][1]) that natural history collections and an evolving cyber-infrastructure are central to the taxonomic mission ...
A. Townsend Peterson +6 more
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Visitor Studies, 2019
This article presents a segmentation of users who visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online collection. The six segments defined in this study are professional researcher, personal interest information-seeker, student researcher, inspiration-seeker ...
Elena Villaespesa
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This article presents a segmentation of users who visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online collection. The six segments defined in this study are professional researcher, personal interest information-seeker, student researcher, inspiration-seeker ...
Elena Villaespesa
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Molecular Ecology Resources, 2019
Museum collections are essential for reconstructing and understanding past biodiversity. Many museum specimens are, however, challenging to identify. Museum samples may be incomplete, have an unusual morphology, or represent juvenile individuals, all of ...
A. Vershinina +3 more
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Museum collections are essential for reconstructing and understanding past biodiversity. Many museum specimens are, however, challenging to identify. Museum samples may be incomplete, have an unusual morphology, or represent juvenile individuals, all of ...
A. Vershinina +3 more
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2017
To understand the evolution and the diversity of fossil horses from South America, it is essential to visit large museum collections around the word. The origin of these collections goes back to the fifteenth century and its peak was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
María Teresa Alberdi, José Luis Prado
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To understand the evolution and the diversity of fossil horses from South America, it is essential to visit large museum collections around the word. The origin of these collections goes back to the fifteenth century and its peak was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
María Teresa Alberdi, José Luis Prado
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Museum Collections and Archaic Era Vertebrate Faunal Remains from Cuba
Environmental Archaeology, 2018Museum collections are an underutilised source of environmental archaeological data. Curated collections often contain faunal and floral remains that can be analysed using new methods and to address various research questions.
R. Colten, B. Worthington
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Bird Tissues from Museum Collections Are Reliable for Assessing Avian Haemosporidian Diversity.
Journal of Parasitology, 2019Birds harbor a diverse group of haemosporidian parasites that reproduce and develop in the host blood cells, muscle tissue, and various organs, which can cause negative effects on the survival and reproduction of their avian hosts.
A. Fecchio +7 more
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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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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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