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Collectors and Collecting for the Raffles Museum in Singapore: 1920–1940 [PDF]
Library & Information History, 2010 Abstract Scholars interested in the place of the museum in society have not neglected the collections that make up the rationale for that institution's existence.
Brendan Luyt
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Art Collector of Colonial Korea: Pak Yŏngch’ŏl’s Art Collecting and Museum [PDF]
Korean Journal of Art HistoryPak Yŏngch’ŏl (1879-1939) was a high-ranking government official, businessman and prominent art collector during the modern period. After Pak’s passing in 1940, his family donated Tasan mun’go (the Tasan Collection) to Keijō Imperial University in accordance with his will.
Kyunghwa Lee
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George Gustav Heye and the National Museum of the American Indian - Collecting the Collector
Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012 On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened its doors to the public. This essay will look at the institution's history, especially its collector, George Gustav Heye, and his representation inside the museum walls. Oscillating between honored patron and greedy businessman, the labels and objects explore his personality
Andrea Zittlau
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Geo&BioThe article deals with the prehistory of the formation of modern zoological collections housed in museums of Kyiv with a significant mammalogical component. A large part of the oldest collections appeared as a result of hunting practices and have all the
Igor Zagorodniuk
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The concept of small museums from an international and local perspective: starting points for further research in the Czech Republic [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2023 The study deals with the question, what is a small museum and what are its specifics compared to other museums. Based on available foreign and local sources, it summarizes the current state of research which is largely focused on searching for the ...
Lucie Jagošová
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War in European Museum Narratives and Cultural Memory [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2023 The article examines how the war narrative is displayed in modern European museum exhibitions, particularly in light of new museology and cultural memory trends in Germany and Poland.
Polina Verbytska
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Local to National: Victorian Industrialist Art Collectors’ Geographies
Artium Quaestiones, 2023 After 1850, the middle and working classes sought cultural education, which John Ruskin, among others, identified as a signifier of civilization and national greatness.
Julie Codell
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Women Collectors and Cultural Philanthropy, c. 1850–1920
19, 2021 This introduction examines the richness within, but also some of the interpretive and evidential challenges intrinsic to, the study of nineteenth-century female collectors.
Tom Stammers
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On the important activity of art collecting
Искусство Евразии, 2020 The article is an introduction to the conference “From the history of collecting: patrons, collectors, founders of museums”, organized by the Russian Academy of Arts. The author's address to the participants is devoted to a short story about people whose
Fedotova, E.D.
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Norsk Museumstidsskrift, 2023 Samandrag Forfattarmusea har som regel meir fokus på forfattaren enn på litteraturen hen har skrive, men det er gode grunnar til å sjå på dette på nytt.
Stein Arnold Hevrøy
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