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How a Traveling Exhibition on Wasps Altered Public Perceptions
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Media portrays a caricature of the “evil” wasp (a flying insect), perpetuating fears developed at a young age or from individual negative experiences. Because wasps are critically important to nature and our agriculture, it is important to provide some form of education to lessen this fear.
Brenna L. Decker +3 more
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Exploring the Digital Transformation Dilemma of Chinese Museums: A Comparative Study
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore the key challenges encountered by Chinese museums during digital transformation. Based on in‐depth interviews with 16 experts, this paper employs a comparative thematic approach. The findings highlight the differences between provincial, municipal, and county museums in terms of policy, finance, equipment, and staff.
Mengning Han
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Effects of Sleep and Age on Prospective Memory Consolidation: A Walk in a Virtual Museum. [PDF]
Clocks Sleep, 2019 Rehel S +9 more
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Interact: A Mixed Reality Virtual Survivor for Holocaust Testimonies
In this paper we present Interact---a mixed reality virtual survivor for Holocaust education. It was created to preserve the powerful and engaging experience of listening to, and interacting with, Holocaust survivors, allowing future generations of ...
Walker, Chris, Ma, Minhua, Coward, Sarah
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines contemporary museum practices in light of media and history theory, and understandings of representation. Through a content analysis of in‐depth interviews with museum and IT professionals involved in creating a virtual reality (VR) exhibition piece, we demonstrate how theoretical concepts addressing the mediated nature of ...
Ilkka Lähteenmäki, Marjaana Puurtinen
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Virtual museum of congenital heart defects: digitization and establishment of a database for cardiac specimens. [PDF]
Quant Imaging Med Surg, 2019 Kiraly L +4 more
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fears of widespread permanent closures of museums expressed at the start of the COVID‐19 pandemic prompted our research to monitor closures and other museum behavior in 2021–2022. We wanted to understand how the UK sector changed in this period. Which museums closed, and what factors were at work in their closure?
Mark Liebenrood +5 more
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Reading Correspondences Through the Virtual Feminist Museum.
, 2015 Correspondences, (2013) a collaboration between poet Anne Michaels and artist Bernice Eisenstein, exploits the multifaceted temporality of comics as a medium.
Smith, Dan
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The Discourse of Equality in Spanish Museums. How Social Media Communicate International Women's Day
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International Women's Day on March 8th is an arena for discourse in contemporary Spain, highlighted by intra‐feminist tension and ideological polarization. In their role as sociocultural mediators, museums construct narratives of gender equality.
Héctor Navarro‐Güere +2 more
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how museums have expanded their societal roles, particularly in fostering community engagement, a shift highlighted during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Once focused mainly on presenting established knowledge, museums now work to involve the public in exploring ideas that help them navigate a changing world.
Laycca Umer +3 more
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