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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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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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Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura MaterialThe Brazilian anthropologist of German origin, Curt Nimuendajú, is considered a central figure in the history of Brazilian anthropology. His biography is marked by multiple roles: a brilliant ethnographer, an indefatigable recorder of indigenous ...
Peter Schröder
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Hidden Gems: Using Collections in Museums to Discover the Motivations of Collectors
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2021 Motivations and drives for collecting have varied through time. From amassing as many examples of different species or artefacts in the sixteenth century to highlighting the importance and strength of the British Empire in the eighteenth century. General trends are seen across historic collections in museums. In an attempt to understand the motivations
J. Freedman
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The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University Series History, 2023 The article is devoted to the issues of local history study of Siberia and the preservation of samples of its natural and historical and cultural heritage in the process of collecting mineralogical, natural science, ethnographic and archaeological ...
V. Shaherov
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3D Scanning of Porto Alegre Museum Artifacts: The Crockery of the Rocco Bakery [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2022 Antiques usually require careful handling, so these objects cannot be made available to the general public and are handled only by restoration specialists.
Andresa Richetti +2 more
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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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Oological collections and egg collectors of Brazilian birds: an overview
Arquivos de Zoologia, 2023 Egg collections have been poorly studied and cataloged both in Brazil and overseas. In Brazil, there is a lack of both historical and current tradition of establishing and curating egg collections.
M. Â. Marini +4 more
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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.
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