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Design in Gunther Kress’s social semiotics
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 ...
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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
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Critical Museology: A Critique (Kritika kritické muzeologie) [PDF]
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
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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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Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators [PDF]
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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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
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
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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Using field photography to study avian moult [PDF]
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
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Expedition of BK-31 (History of the Volga Military Flotilla armored boat)
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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