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 +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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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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A type catalogue of the reed frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Hyperoliidae) in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB) with comments on historical collectors and expeditions [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2021 We present a commented catalogue of the type specimens of the Afro-Malagasy frog family Hyperoliidae at the herpetological collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (ZMB). In current publications and databases, many names based on ZMB primary types are listed as synonyms of other species, the types often declared as lost.
Frank Tillack +2 more
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Exhibiting fandom: A museological perspective
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Fandom and the collecting of objects are interwoven phenomena. The insights of museum studies may be brought to bear on the study of fan objects to provide a better understanding of fan collections and fan collecting.
Dorus Hoebink +2 more
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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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