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The role of collectors: from preservation and study of collectibles to their popularization through public display and the creation of museum institutions

ARTISTIC CULTURE. TOPICAL ISSUES, 2018
The article studies private collectors’ impact on public cultural institutions. The research discovers historical evidence and reasons for the emergence of the collecting activity. It looks through evolution of the private collecting, the role of collectors in the founding and growth of public museums, from ancient civilizations up to the present.
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For scientists, for students or for the public? : the shifting roles of natural history museums [PDF]

, 2010
This article aims to discuss the main roles of natural history museums and to show how these purposes have evolved and adapted throughout the museums’ history, as a response to the development of natural sciences and societal change, from their creation ...
Delicado, Ana
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The first lady geologist, or collector par excellence? [PDF]

, 2001
This is a PDF version of an article published in Geology Today© 2001. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com. The illustrations have been removed.This article discusses the life and career of the British geologist Etheldred ...
Benett, Cadbury, Creese, Cynthia V. Burek, Ford, Murchison, Spamer, Torrens, Torrens   +8 more
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Inside a duck‐billed dinosaur: Vertebral bone microstructure of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dinosaurs evolved a unique respiratory system with air sacs that contributed to their evolutionary success. Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity (PSP) has been used to infer the presence of air sac systems in some fossil archosaurs. While unambiguous evidence of PSP is well documented in pterosaurs and post‐Carnian saurischians, it remains absent
Tito Aureliano, Aline M. Ghilardi, Jonatan Kaluza, Agustín G. Martinelli   +3 more
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Experimental and Creative Approaches to Collecting and Distributing New Media Art within Regional Arts Organisations [PDF]

, 2019
This article is an overview of preliminary research undertaken for the creation of a framework for collecting and distributing new media art within regional art galleries in the U.K.
Smithson, Georgia
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A contribution to the anatomy of two rare cetacean species: The hourglass dolphin (Cephalorhynchus cruciger) and the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The anatomical description of the hourglass dolphin (Cephalorhynchus cruciger) and the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica) remains largely unexplored, due to limited specimen availability and preservation challenges. This study employed digital imaging techniques, conventional histology, and computed tomography to provide visualization of
Jean‐Marie Graïc, Tommaso Gerussi, Bruno Cozzi, Rebecca M. Boys, Brian Chin Wing Kot, Matthew R. Perrott, Kane Fleury, Tabris Yik To Chung, Henry Chun Lok Tsui, Emma Burns, Trudi Webster, Stuart Hunter, Emma L. Betty, Odette Howarth, Carolina Loch, Sophie White, Steve Dawson, William Rayment, Ros Cole, Derek Cox, Tom Waterhouse, Hannah Hendriks, Anton van Helden, Muriel Johnstone, Ramari Oliphant Stewart, R. Ewan Fordyce, Karen A. Stockin   +26 more
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Vernacular museum: communal bonding and ritual memory transfer among displaced communities [PDF]

, 2015
Eclectically curated and largely ignored by the mainstream museum sector, vernacular museums sit at the interstices between the nostalgic and the future-oriented, the private and the public, the personal and the communal.
Baudrillard Jean, Baudrillard Jean, Bourdieu Pierre, Böök Netta, Dittmar Helga, Engman Max, Fingerroos Outi, Harle Vilho, Hoskins Janet, Hoskins Janet, Jakobson Max, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Barbara, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Barbara, Lehto Liisa, Macdonald Sharon, Macdonald Sharon, Maja Mikula, Miller Daniel, Miller Daniel, Nalbantian Suzanne, Paasi Anssi, Raivo Petri J., Raivo Petri J., Raivo Petri J., Samuel Raphael, Sihvo Hannes, Smith Laurajane, Souter Alexander, The Finnish Museum Authority, Yates Frances Amelia   +29 more
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Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
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Daneš the Collector: Pacific Journeys of J. V. Daneš and his Collection in the Náprstek Museum

Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2017
J. V. Daneš (1880–1928) was not only an outstanding figure of his time in the international scientific community, but also a diplomat and a traveller. Two of his overseas trips led him to Australia and the Pacific region, where he assembled a remarkable collection of ethnographic objects and photographs. This collection, now kept in the National Museum
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Julia Hufnagel-Schildbach (1880–1962) – the most significant woman – collector of minerals in Bohemia and her collection at the National Museum in Prague

Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series, 2018
Julia H. Schildbach (*1880, †1962) from Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně) built around 1900–1935 an extensive systematic collection of minerals. Minerals were bought, exchanged and personally collected at localities in the wide vicinity of Mariánské Lázně.
Martin Bohatý, Dalibor Velebil
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