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Beyond the Metropolis: Collectors, Itineraries, and Provincial Museums in the Long 19th Century
, 2023 International audienceThis special issue of Centaurus brings togetherhistorians from Latin America and Europe to trace the history ofsome scientific collections and museums, in order to reassess theirsignificance and to draw a more nuanced international ...
Podgorny, Irina, Richard, Nathalie
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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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Review of collectors, collections & collecting the arts of China: histories & challenges [PDF]
, 2015 'Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China: Histories & Challenges', Steuber, J, and Lai G. Eds.
McLoughlin, Kevin, Kevin McLoughlin
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Handle with care: historical geographies and difficult cultural legacies of egg-collecting [PDF]
, 2016 This thesis offers an examination of egg-collecting, which was a very popular pastime in Britain from the Victorian era well into the twentieth century.
Cole, Edward
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
, 2022 This doctoral dissertation explores the interplay between private and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for
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Conservation in Museums and Inclusion of the Non-Professional
, 2014 Just as object meanings are defined by people, so too can identities of individuals, groups and communities be implicit in their relationships with particular objects.
Saunders, JM, Jill Saunders
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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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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 +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.We investigate whether Montessori and traditional schooling systems shape the developmental trajectory of large‐scale brain dynamics in different ways. We quantify the arrow of time (“non‐reversibility”) in neural activity during resting state and movie‐watching, revealing distinct maturational patterns.
Elvira del Agua +6 more
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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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