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Lines of Discovery on Inuit Needle Cases, Kakpiit, in Museum Collections

, 2018
Drawing on examples of museum collections research by Indigenous people, including my own research experiences, I argue for the importance of Indigenous people's access to museum collections for cultural and language revitalization efforts.
K. Zawadski
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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 Collections and Their Legacies

2021
Abstract Museums continue to be cast as anachronistic—‘weary’, ‘tired’, and ‘out of touch’—trophy houses embedded in the colonial past, with object collections considered hollow remnants of that past. This article contests this notion and reveals how museums have emerged over the past fifty years as active field sites where Indigenous ...
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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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The Medieval Floortiles of Herefordshire, 2022

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The Museum in the museum: stored collections and their usability.

2023
Throughout time museums have accumulated various items, of which only a part has been put on display. In museums all over the world, due to different circumstances, a large part of museum collections is held in storage, which makes them unavailable to the public.
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Museum collections and sustainability

Cultural Trends, 2008
This contribution to the debate on museum collecting and disposal takes as its starting point the results of a survey which demonstrates that museums are continuing to collect at a significant rate, and that disposal is not being used as a collections management tool.
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The Ancient Red Sea Port of Adulis and the Eritrean Coastal Region: Previous investigations and museum collections

, 2013
The book unveils documents and museum collections related to research and excavations conducted on the Red Sea coast and at Adulis in the 19th and 20th centuries.
C. Zazzaro
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University museums and collections

Museum International, 2000
Peter Stanbury has worked with university museums and historic houses for most of his career. In 1992 he was one of the co-founders of the Australia-wide association of university museums, CAUMAC – the Council of Australian University Museums and Collections.
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Museums and the Future of Collecting

2017
Introduction - what future collecting?. Part 1 Collecting in context: collections and collecting, Susan Pearce museums without collections - museum philosophy in West Africa, Malcolm Mcled the future of collectin - lessons from the past, Richard Dunn the Ashmolean Museum - a case study of 18th-century collecting, Patricia Kell the cartographies of ...
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