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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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…
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…
This dissertation investigates identity, art, and architecture in twentieth-century Iran. Through case studies of two museums and a mosque in the capital city, Tehran, the project aims to elucidate the interdisciplinarity of identity formation and its relationship to nation buil…
Exhibits concerning problematic or looted collections are rare, primarily due to the artifacts’ lack of archaeological context and uncertain life-histories. Collections such as the C.W. Riggs Collection at Cincinnati Museum Center offer the opportunity to co-develop educational …
Many contemporary artists have turned to the past in order to negotiate and make sense of their relationship with the present. Similarly, museums have begun to look back in order to push forward and through a revisionist lens they scrutinize their collections and reveal ignored …
In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural history museum is attempting to decolonize, they must do …
This study described the extent to which local history museums established place identity among museum members. Understanding the small history museum’s role in shaping place identity could be beneficial to developing and sustaining museum audiences and could be vital to a museu…
Upon examining definitions of Cultural Heritage as proposed by some of the discipline’s primary scholars, one can derive the necessary classifications and objectives that make certain institutions examples of cultural heritage institutions. By virtue of promoting the education o…
Founded in 1855 on the principle of a cost-free science education for all, the Wagner Free Institute of Science remains one of the oldest operating museums in the United States. For nearly fifty years, the institute flourished in Philadelphia’s scientific community under the inf…
Originating in the late nineteenth century, the Georgia Capitol Museum consists of several exhibits inside the legislative building in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the years, control of the museum has changed hands many times, yet neither legislators nor museum professionals have ever…
Background: Museums have been fundamental tools outside of formal learning environments in providing new learning and to support knowledge acquired in the traditional classroom. Museum spaces can add to the learning development of all students, yet the focus of this research is …