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Prominent collectors of mammalogical collections in museums of Kyiv in the context of the history of zoological collections

Geo&Bio
The 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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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 , Fabio Pinto da Silva, Liane Roldo   +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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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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Our Environment Ruined? Environmental Control Reconsidered as a Strategy for Conservation

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 1996
This paper examines the current debate on guidelines for environmental control in the light of deterioration mechanisms induced and accelerated by fluctuations in relative humidity.
Dale Peters
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A Nanochemist and a Nanohumanist Take a Walk Through the German Museum: An Analysis of the Popularization of Nanoscience and Technology in Germany

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2014
 This paper is an analysis of the NST (Nanoscience and Technology) exhibit at the DM (Deutsches Museum) from the point of view of a German studies scholar and a nanoscientist.
Paul A Youngman, Ljiljana Fruk
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What’s your dinosaur? Or, imaginative reconstruction and absolute truth in the museum space

Museum & Society, 2019
For the first half of the nineteenth century, objects in the British Museum were largely unlabeled, uncatalogued, and unexplained. Nevertheless, the idea that the object could evoke a ‘larger world’ was current in discussions of the pedagogical use of ...
Jordan Kistler, Will Tattersdill
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Fakers and Mold-Makers: The Use of Structured Light Scanning to Detect Forgeries of Pre-Hispanic Effigies from Oaxaca

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2022
A common forgery technique is to use molds to create a suite of objects. This article introduces a new technique to identify objects made with the same mold through the comparison of 3D models created using structured light scanning (SLS). SLS data, when
Justin Jennings, April Hawkins, Adam Sellen, Giles Spence Morrow   +3 more
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