The advancement of technology has come to pass by the age of the current museum world. The main focus of museums is to preserve historical and cultural important items and use them to educate the public. The current standards in museums has not kept up with the changing of time …
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"This book is a complete guide to interpreting women's history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-the objects, architecture and landscapes-in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and c…
After my recurring childhood visits to the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, I found that not all of the treasures on view were labeled with didactic panels. This absence made me contemplate the story of the object in a given exhibit and question what further information …
The work of contemporary British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is widely described as theatrical. This characteristic is especially present in the most well-known segment of his practice: his work in three dimensions, which often stages headless mannequins wearing copies o…
In asking the question, “Which way to the modern art museum?” this dissertation explores how the Moroccan cultural elite of the 1960s and 70s engaged with global discourses on art, modernity and the cultural infrastructures that support them. After Moroccan independence from Fra…
In the world of museums it is the management of holdings that allows the museum to fulfill its pedagogic and preservation missions. A museum that can gear its cataloguing for the easiest and most comprehensive access will enable its curators, researchers and the public to intera…
Zum Planetarium: Wissensgeschichtliche Studien
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Als begehbares, immersives Modell des Kosmos gewährte das Projektionsplanetarium zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals die Erfahrung einer vollkommen technisch durchdrungenen Natur.In den Jahren 1919 bis 1925 wurde in den Jenaer Zeiss-Werken ein kuppelförmiges Gebäude erfunden…
Matters of Belonging brings to the foreground critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. The book emerges from the EU-funde…
An opening to curatorial enquiry : introduction to curating and research Paul O'Neill et Mick Wilson -- The complete curator Liam Gillick -- Towards the exhibition as research Simon Sheikh -- Renewing the curatorial refrain : sustainable research in contemporary art Maja et Reub…
"This anthology of newly commissioned texts presents a series of detailed examples of the different kinds of knowledge production that have recently emerged within the field of curatorial practice. The first volume of its kind to provide an overview of the theme of research with…
The study investigates how museum and gallery buildings can be designed to give functional longevity and appeal. It considers this in terms of their design and relation to their surroundings and use in the context of changing social, cultural, political and economic factors. Pos…
Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by th…
It is not an everyday event for an artwork in a museum or gallery to be harmed deliberately by a member of the public. Such acts of iconoclasm do occur more regularly than many people might assume though, and when attacks take place the repercussions can be serious. This thesis …
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology. They have an impor…
This thesis examines the current state of nonprofit museum accountability in the United Kingdom and United States, assessing methods of achieving fiscal and ethical accountability, as well as the factors that have influenced museum codes and policies to that end. The recent deve…