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The Development of a Methodology to Understand Climate-induced Damage in Decorated Oak Wood Panels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Climate-induced damage in decorated oak wood panels is considered to be a high risk for pre-eminent museum collections. To advise museums on the development of sustainable future preservation strategies and rational guidelines for indoor climate ...
Ankersmit, H.A.   +8 more
core  

Purchasing Storage Furniture to Rehouse and Make Collections Accessible [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) seeks NEH support in the preservation of its humanities collections following a natural disaster by purchasing and installing new storage furniture and environmental and light monitoring equipment ...
Stefanie Kohn, Stefanie Kohn
core   +1 more source

Open-source software integration: A tutorial on species distribution mapping and ecological niche modelling [PDF]

open access: yesResearch Ideas and Outcomes
Over the last decade, access to global data has become increasingly critical for research, allowing insights into diverse biological, environmental and societal questions at a macro scale.
Zoe Ryan   +8 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Copyright for Museum Collections

open access: yesPerspektywy Kultury, 2023
This article investigates whether museums are shifting from having users respect the copyright to their collections towards becoming intellectual property managers.
Anna Pluszyńska
doaj   +1 more source

Establishment patterns of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) at the microsite scale help explain saguaro regeneration and distributions in heterogenous, regional habitats

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Establishment of long‐lived perennial plants is a pivotal event that often leads to reproductive maturity. The population dynamics of the giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) have been investigated over large spatial areas, but establishment patterns have not been studied at the microsite (1 m) scale.
Peter B. Breslin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chronology or Context: Temporality and Artificiality of Museum Collections

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2023
Although museum collections represent a temporary assemblage of “affiliated objects”, aimed at facilitating the responsible curation of the museum funds, in practice they are treated as an obligatory unit, without which the museum object itself does not ...
Tatjana Cvjetićanin
doaj   +1 more source

The Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: Does Australian Policy and Practice Adequately Support Cultural Identity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Chinese-Indonesian Collections in the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Among the more than 130,000 objects from Indonesia in the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, many once belonged to or were used by the Chinese population of Indonesia.
Brinkgreve, F. (Francine)   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Rethinking asexuality: the enigmatic case of functional sexual genes in Lepraria (Stereocaulaceae)

open access: yesBMC Genomics
Background The ubiquity of sex across eukaryotes, given its high costs, strongly suggests it is evolutionarily advantageous. Asexual lineages can avoid, for example, the risks and energetic costs of recombination, but suffer short-term reductions in ...
Meredith M. Doellman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of the individual in the organisation of communication ‘museum–visitor’ (in memory of Vira Franchuk)

open access: yesGeo&Bio, 2022
The article highlights the role of personality in the creation of museum exhibitions. Among the pleiad of prominent museum figures of the second half of the last century was Vira Franchuk (1916–2014).
Mariia Reshetnyk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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