Results 11 to 20 of about 810,512 (210)

Design in Gunther Kress’s social semiotics

open access: yesLondon Review of Education, 2022
Gunther Kress’s multimodal and social semiotic theory of communication has moved beyond the realm of linguistics, which originally framed his work, and has reached out to inform other fields, such as those of education, museum studies, as well as the ...
doaj   +2 more sources

How it all began [PDF]

open access: yesЛитературный факт, 2017
In the Soviet studies on Russian cultural history popular fairs (a variety of games, amusements, and leisure) in the pre-revolutionary era were among the most important aspects of Russian culture.
Albin M. Konechnyi
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Museology: A Critique (Kritika kritické muzeologie) [PDF]

open access: yesMuzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2016
Recently, museological scholarly literature has seen a lot critiques of current museum practice and even attempts at a coherent theory of critical museology or critical heritage studies.
Jan Dolák
doaj  

Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896

open access: yesBulletin 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
doaj   +1 more source

Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +3 more sources

Globalization, Nautical Nostalgia and Maritime Identity Politics. A Case Study on Boundary Objects in the Future German Port Museum

open access: yesEuropean 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Tangible Interaction to Communicate Tacit Knowledge of Built Heritage

open access: yesHeritage, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Early Medieval Language and Literature as Heritage: a Sutton Hoo Case Study

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Using field photography to study avian moult [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Methods to obtain moult data from wild birds have not changed much over the last century and most studies still depend on checking museum specimens or capturing birds.
Furness, Robert W.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Expedition of BK-31 (History of the Volga Military Flotilla armored boat)

open access: yesHistoria 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
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy