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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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Re-Introducing Visitors: Thoughts and Discussion on John Falk’s Notion of Visitors’ Identity-Related Visit Motivations [PDF]
, 2010 Until today museums have tried to identify and segment their audiences based on their demographics. After years of conducting research in the US, John Falk in 2009 introduced a descriptive and predictive framework for identifying visitors on the basis of
Christidou, D
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The Spider: Anaylsis of an Automaton
Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2017 [Editors' note: This paper is the 2017 winner of the Student Paper Award in Document(ation) Studies, http://documentacademy.org/award. Susannah Munson wrote the paper as a Kent State University, School of Information, Museum Studies student.] The ...
Susannah Munson
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Converting Family Into Fans: How the Comtemporary Jewish Museum Expanded Its Reach [PDF]
, 2016 The last in a series of 10 case studies explores how The Contemporary Jewish Museum in SanFrancisco worked to attract families of all backgrounds and build the next generation of museum supporters.
Bob Harlow, Cindy Cox Roman
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Ambivalent pasts: colonial history and the theatricalities of ethnographic display [PDF]
, 2017 In the twenty-first century, museums holding ethnographic collections have come under scrutiny for their implication in colonial history, and many have started to address this problematic legacy, often in conscious attempts to move beyond the colonial as
Bachmann, Michael
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What Can Museum Anthropology Do in the Twenty-first Century?
Museum & SocietyThis article sets out to tackle the question: ‘what can museum anthropology do in the twenty-first century?’ It does so by focusing on the doing in a double-sense: on what museum anthropology can do, as in affecting, impacting and achieving, as well as ...
Philipp Schorch
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The Generation of Memory: Reflections on the “Memory Boom” in Contemporary Historical Studies [PDF]
, 2012 Jay Winter delivered the following in the form of a lecture at the Canadian War Museum on 31 October 2000. A distinguished academic, Winter has been writing about the cultural history of the First World War for nearly three decades.
Winter, Jay
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, 2010 This paper calls for Norden to be understood as a metaframe. Related formulations like “Nordic art” or “Nordic welfare” function as mesoframes. These trigger multiple framing devices.
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Building the field of museum studies in Portugal: the role of publications
Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares, 2020 In recent decades we have seen the field of museum studies expand. This development has been supported by the contribution of several actors, in various ways.
Ana Carvalho
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Ecclesiastical Museums and the Pontifical Letter on Its Pastoral Functions
Religions, 2023 The Catholic Church arrogates a long tradition of protecting and using heritage to complement its evangelisation ministry from the medieval ecclesiastical treasures included in museology proto-history.
Maria Isabel Roque
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