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Demographic Transformation and the Future of Museums [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In 2009 the Center for the Future of Museums commissioned Betty Farrell to produce a report to explore in more detail the demographic trends in American society and their implications for museums.
Betty Farrell, Maria Medvedeva
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Reconsidering "the love of art" : evaluating the potential of art museum outreach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Art museums have long been identified as bastions of social and cultural exclusion. This conclusion was best evidenced by the large-scale 1967 French study by Bourdieu and Darbel demonstrating the exclusionary nature of “The Love of Art.” However, in ...
Bennett T.   +15 more
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Metal–Organic Frameworks for Gaseous Pollutant Management: From Capture to Neutralization and Reutilization

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review maps how MOFs can manage hazardous gases by combining adsorption, neutralization, and reutilization, enabling sustainable air‐pollution control. Covering chemical warfare agent simulants, SO2, NOx, NH3, H2S, and volatile organic compounds, it highlights structure‐guided strategies that boost selectivity, water tolerance, and cycling ...
Yuanmeng Tian   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Introduction

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2023
This paper introduces a group of three articles that bring together object stories relating to observatory history and networks. The three articles (‘Instrumental networks’, ‘Object itineraries’ and ‘Observatory audiences’) each bring together three ...
Rebekah Higgitt
doaj   +1 more source

For scientists, for students or for the public? : the shifting roles of natural history museums [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Archeo‐Inspiration from the Cultural History of Glass: Historic Accounts, Anecdotes and Hard Facts as Challenges to Modern Material Science

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Glass, historically valued for its purity and durability, has long inspired artists and societies. This article introduces the concept of “Archeo‐Inspiration”, drawing on cultural and historical contexts of glass to guide future material innovations.
Eva von Contzen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visitors' Interpretive Strategies at Wolverhampton Art Gallery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Making Meaning in Art Museums is one of two research projects on the theme of art museums and interpretive communities. The first was published as Making Meaning 1:Visitors' Interpretive Strategies at Wolverhampton Art Gallery (RCMG 2001). Making Meaning
Hooper-Greenhill, E   +3 more
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Liquid‐in‐Liquid Prints: High‐Density Biochemically Encoded Information Preserved in Microdroplet Arrays

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces a novel approach for encoding and storing information in the liquid state in microdroplet arrays. These liquid‐in‐liquid prints are generated by a droplet printing system capable of dynamically setting the composition of each droplet pixel.
Maximilian Breitfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart and sustainable: collecting urban transport and mobility innovation in the 2020s

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2022
How can museums collect transport objects to reflect the changes that we can see happening on the streets around us today? Much of what is changing relates to behaviour and integrated transport systems, both of which lack material ‘objects’ to collect ...
Meredith Greiling
doaj   +1 more source

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