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Volunteer-run Museums in English Market Towns and Villages [PDF]

Volunteer-run museums in English market towns and villages have been largely over-looked by scholars examining the history and development of museums in England, and work on contemporary museum volunteering or the relations of museums to their ...
Yates, Bridget E
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Anthropology, Museums and the Body: Lessons From an Experimental Teaching Environment

Museum & Society, 2019
With increased interests in solving complex problems through interdisciplinary research—how best can museums use this approach to address critical social issues?
Gwyneira Isaac, Kate Clark, Kelsey Adams, Heather Ashe, Katie Benz, Delaney Cummings, David Gassett, Francine Margolis, Amanda Quink, Emily Somberg   +9 more
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Why Collect Science?

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2017
In this critical assessment of the ‘museology of science’ I cherry-pick recent scholarship and practice to unpack the functions of science collections. Some practices (exhibition, engagement, study) have already attracted considerable attention, others ...
Samuel J M M Alberti
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Arte Juntos/Art Together: Promoting School Readiness among Latino Children through Parent Engagement and Social Inclusion in a Suburban Museum

Museum & Society, 2015
Census data reveal that suburban communities are becoming increasingly diverse. Once considered affluent and predictable places, American suburbs are now confronting increasing poverty rates as well as ethnic, racial and linguistic diversity.
Zoila Tazi, Helena Vidal, Karen Stein
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Ecomuseums and Contemporary Multi-cultural Communities: Assessing Problems and Potentialities through the Experience of the Écomusée du Val de Bièvre, Fresnes, France

Museum & Society, 2015
By exploring the distinctive tasks and tools of the ecomuseum paradigm, the essay aims to evaluate the actual and potential role of these institutions within the present context, to investigate their efficiency in operating as progressive tools of ...
Elena Montanari
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Structure and Function of a Multi‐Megadalton Virus‐Like Proteolytic Dodecahedron

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Zuzalysin, a virulence metallopeptidase of the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis, is secreted as a latent, flexible ≈95‐kDa monomer. Calcium triggers cysteine‐switch activation and hierarchical assembly into pentamers, bipentamers, tripentamers, and a ≈5.6‐MDa, ≈355‐Å dodecahedron. Structures at 1.8–3.6 Å reveal a virus‐sized catalytic cage
Mariusz Madej, Arturo Rodríguez‐Banqueri, Danuta Mizgalska, Borys Szmigielski, Zuzanna Nowakowska, Małgorzata Benedyk‐Machaczka, Monika Bzowska, Katarzyna Mikruta, Juan Sebastián Ramírez‐Larrota, Chinanu Agunanne, Olivier Julien, Anthony J. O'Donoghue, Carsten Scavenius, Mario López‐Martín, Enrique Marcos, Łukasz Koziej, Sebastian Glatt, Pablo Guerra, Ulrich Eckhard, Jan Potempa, F. Xavier Gomis‐Rüth   +20 more
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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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Random display and recommendations – exploring the web platform of the artist Ivar Arosenius and other digital collections of art

Museum & Society, 2020
This article concerns efforts to increase the accessibility of art through digital collections on the web. Features for display and comparison used by the platform of the Swedish artist Ivar Arosenius and by web projects such as Europeana and Google Art &
Karin Wagner
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Being ‘European’ in Colonial Indonesia. Collectors and Collections between Yogyakarta, Berlin, Dresden and Vienna in the Late Nineteenth Century

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2019
In this article, I use the trajectories and meanings of objects in the collections of two Eurasian men, George Lodewijk (‘Louis’) Weijnschenk (1847-1919) and Jacob Anthonie Dieduksman (1832-1901), to illustrate how juridically registered ‘Europeans’ in ...
C. Drieënhuizen
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Conservation in Museums and Inclusion of the Non-Professional [PDF]

, 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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