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Transformations of Exhibitions in War-Affected Ukraine: 2024 Perspectives on Art-Driven Inclusion and Socialization [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
This article explores the transformation of exhibition practices in Ukraine amidst the ongoing conflict, focusing on the period up to 2024. It examines the extensive damage to cultural monuments and museum collections caused by Russian aggression and ...
Yulia Ivashko, Aneta Pawłowska
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Colonial or not colonial, that’s the question: Curt Nimuendajú as collector for Brazilian and European Museums

Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material
The 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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From Field to Museum

21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
By 1956, the Philadelphia Museum of Art had acquired a major collection of Indian sculpture from Stella Kramrisch and appointed her as the Curator for Indian art.
Brinda Kumar
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A history of Ottoman art history through the private database of Edwin Binney, 3rd [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2012
This article examines one of the United States’ greatest art collectors of the mid-twentieth century, Edwin Binney, 3rd (1925–86); specifically, his collection of Ottoman art, which is now divided between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harvard ...
Keelan Overton
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Friluftsmuseet og kampen om fortiden

Norsk Museumstidsskrift, 2016
Sammendrag: De kulturhistoriske museenes samfunnsoppdrag består i å skape kollektiv erindring og kontinuitet med fortiden, men de skal også bidra til kritisk refleksjon.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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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
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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland 

Museum & Society
This paper explores the mineral specimens held by the Science and Technology department at National Museums Scotland (NMS). It examines what these objects and their provenance reveal about the Museum’s collecting methods and how they reflect and ...
Georgina Grant, Ellie Swinbank
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«En nyttig Hage og smuk Lystpark»

Norsk Museumstidsskrift, 2019
Sammendrag Artikkelen beskriver parkanlegget på Gjøvik gård i perioden 1804–1956. Gjennom en kritisk studie av historiske kart, fotografier, avisutklipp, brev m.m.
Heidi Froknestad
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The Enlightenment Museum as a Result of the Development of Education: The Case of the Musaeum Polonicum [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
The article presents the concept of the Musaeum Polonicum, developed in 1775 and published in the magazine Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne. Its author, Michał Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech (1748–1806), was an intellectual educated in the spirit of the European ...
Paulina Paul
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An operational windmill in an open-air museum as a conservation challenge: Lessons from projects recently implemented in Poland [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
The article discusses the methods of protecting historic windmills and recognising them as valuable objects of industrial heritage. Therefore, examples of attempts to restore windmills as working mills after 2010 are discussed.
Filip Tomaszewski, Bartosz M. Walczak
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