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Collecting Rooms: Objects, Identities and Domestic Spaces [PDF]
, 2014 This practice-based enquiry into United Kingdom based collecting rooms reveals five participants’ motivations, frustrations and satisfactions manifested in the creation of their spaces.
Vale, Sam
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Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century [PDF]
, 2007 The primary aim of this thesis is to focus attention on the bourgeois, 'un-named' collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period.
Jordan, Christopher
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Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong from 1949 to 1997: Collectors, Museums and the Art Market [PDF]
, 2021 This thesis is a study of Chinese art collecting in Hong Kong during the second half of the 20th century. Through reconstructing the biographies of four representative collectors, who also held other roles as art dealer, adviser, scholar or museum donor,
Chan, Ivy Yi Yan
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Producing and Collecting for Empire: African Textiles in the V&A 1852-2000 [PDF]
, 2012 The aim of this project is to examine the African textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum and how they reflect the historical and cultural relationship between Britain and Africa.
Stylianou, Nicola Stella
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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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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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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 +3 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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‘Visual Histories’ Science Visualization in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Museums
Museum & Society, 2019 This article attempts to shed light on the complex interdependencies between science, art and popular visual culture in the context of nineteenth-century natural history museums.
Stefanie Jovanovic-Kruspel
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