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Critical Museum Theory/Museum Studies in Canada: A Conversation [PDF]
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique, 2017 CANADIAN SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL in shaping the active field of critical museum theory/museum studies, with anthropologists, sociologists, historians, art historians, and curators working to challenge and reimagine the educational function, social role, politics, and pedagogy of museums while expanding the very notion of what a "museum" has been in ...
McTavish, Lianne +4 more
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Semantic browsing of digital collections [PDF]
, 2005 Visiting museums is an increasingly popular pastime. Studies have shown that visitors can draw on their museum experience, long after their visit, to learn new things in practical situations.
G. Landow +3 more
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Taste à-la-Mode: Consuming foreignness, picturing gender [PDF]
, 2017 Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity ...
Gowrley, Freya
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2022 The British Museum archive preserves hundreds of letters sent by antiquities dealers based in Baghdad who regularly wrote to sell archaeological artefacts to the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities (the former name of today’s Middle East ...
Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem
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European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2021 The German Port Museum is scheduled to open in Hamburg in 2020 as one of Germany’s biggest and best funded museum projects at present. Unlike most comparable institutions, the museum is not only supposed to display the historic dimensions of ports and ...
Melcher Ruhkopf
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The Role of Tangible Interaction to Communicate Tacit Knowledge of Built Heritage
Heritage, 2018 Meanings and values of built heritage vary from factual and explicit meanings which are relatively easy to present, to more tacit knowledge, which is typically more challenging to communicate due to its implicit and often abstract character.
Eslam Nofal +4 more
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Early Medieval Language and Literature as Heritage: a Sutton Hoo Case Study
Open Library of Humanities, 2023 This article is both a reflection on the cultural, social, and political stakes of how early medieval literature and language functions as heritage in England, and on my practices as a museum educator.
Fran Allfrey
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Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators [PDF]
, 2013 Museum exhibitions are literacy rich environments. Visitors may engage with a range of texts including texts that constitute the exhibition objects themselves, those that convey information about the objects and those that instruct visitors about how the
Aubusson, PJ +6 more
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Expedition of BK-31 (History of the Volga Military Flotilla armored boat)
Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2020 The article reveals the history of the discovery, recovery and restoration of the BK-31 armoured boat of the Volga Military Flotilla, which perished in October 1942 in the height of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Alexander E. Epifanov
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Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2021 Review of Maia Wellington Gahtan, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, eds, Collecting and Empires: An Historical and Global Perspective (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019)
Angelo Cattaneo
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