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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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Gait Analysis of Pak Biawak: A Necrobot Lizard Built using the Skeleton of an Asian Water Monitor (Varanus Salvator)

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds, Donan Satria Yudha, Parvez Alam   +2 more
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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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Grip and Grasp: Lizard Claw Inspired Robotic Manipulators

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Our study identifies the most effective lizard claw shape for use as an end effector in a bioinspired robotic manipulator. By examining key geometric features and combining them into comparative indices, the Crotaphytus collaris claw is found to be the best fit.
Hyeon Lee, Kate Douglas, Asyiah Bray, Andrea Rummel, Parvez Alam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Mechanisms of Aristolochic Acid Resistance in Specialist Butterflies and Evolutionary Insights for Potential Protective Pathways

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The study provides an extreme example of insect adaptation to highly toxic defenses of host plants, and investigates the complex strategies to resist carcinogenic aristolochic acids, including physical isolation, metabolic detoxification, and DNA repair.
Yang Luan, Yubo Zhang, Jingjing Li, Jianqing Zhu, Yuyang Lei, Yushi Hu, Zhenqiang Xin, Tianpei Xie, Jiang Zheng, Yuanyuan Lin, Jingjing Shen, Yiyi Cao, Xinyue You, Jing Xi, Jiaying Wu, Weiying Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Yuanting Zheng, David J. Lohman, Leming Shi, Wei Zhang   +20 more
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Museum presentation and new trends in exhibition displays from a museological perspective using the example of selected European university museums and collections [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
Against the background of museological theory, this paper questions new trends in current museum exhibition displays, focusing on universities as institutions of higher education and as preservers of cultural heritage.
Biedermann Bernadette
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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
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Hunting the Collectors. Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives dirigé par Susan Cochrane et Max Quanchi [PDF]

Journal de la société des océanistes, 2010
Par son titre et le champ d’investigation qu’il definit, ce recueil de dix-neuf contributions s’inscrit dans le prolongement de l’ouvrage collectif edite sept ans auparavant par Michael O’Hanlon et Robert L. Welsch, Hunting the Gatherers, dont certains articles prefiguraient d’importantes publications interessant l’histoire des collectes et des ...
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Pandemic, Post-pandemic and Podcasting in Museums: Comparison Study of the Most Visited Museums in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia (A Marketing Communications Perspective) [PDF]

Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo
The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic prompted cultural institutions, including museums, to adapt to widespread closures. This study investigates the role of podcasts as a strategic tool for the most visited museums in Poland, Slovakia and ...
Mikuláš, Peter, Jupowicz-Ginalska, Anna, Kučerová, Lucia, Dudziak-Kisio, Martyna   +3 more
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