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"It’s 2020 and it’s time to face it, neutrality does not exist in museums. What is shown and programmed in museums is the result of choices. Through their offer, museums reflect on past, present and future and therefore give meaning to... more
A lo largo de este trabajo queremos explorar como los museos de hoy pueden ser usados para reflejar y construir discursos comunitarios. Este estudio será hecho a través de una examinación de tres temas claves: estados-naciones museos y... more
This paper was published in Spanish in: Navajas Corral, O. (2013): Características de los Ecomuseos; en VV. AA (2013): Parque Criollo y Museo Gauchesco Ricardo Güiraldes, Plan de exhibición, Buenos Aires: Exhibir · Comunicación y... more
"The museum serves as an important institution to legitimise the overlap of magic, ritualistic traditions and healing practices that form the core of Mayong's cultural history"
https://criticalcollective.in/Museums.aspx?tid=28
https://criticalcollective.in/Museums.aspx?tid=28
Brazil has solid experience in the community-based development of museums such as eco-museums, community museums, street museums, indigenous museums, favela museums, route museums, neighbourhood museums, parade museums - all of which... more
More than 1,28 million citizens of Greek descent live today in the United States of America, while Greek American communities date back to the mid-19th century. Greek American museums first appeared in the early 1990s but there is an... more
Tesis de titulación de la Maestría en Museología de la Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía (Encrym) Este trabajo sistematiza y presenta Museos sin Paredes, un proyecto ejecutado que consistió en documentar,... more
The new museum movement in India has been born, in recent years, out of the realization that museums are epiphenomena of the museumization of the world. This article speaks of the new dimensions added to the movement for harnessing the... more
Tradução do texto "Heritage and empowerment of local development players" já publicado anteriormente (In: Museum International: Achievements and Challenges in the Brazilian Museum Landscape. Paris: ICOM. Volume 64, Issue 1-4, pages 43–55,... more
Throughout this research, I approach the theories proposed by New Museology in order to find similarities and distances among them and the processes developed in two community museums in Colombia: Museo del Vidrio de Bogotá and Museo... more
El Ecomuseo de la Cerámica de San Vicente de Nicoya cuenta con un extenso proceso de generación de capacidades para la población de su comunidad, orientado a consolidar su estrategia como museo comunitario y fomentar la solidez de su... more
Conflictorium: The Museum of Conflict was established in Mirzapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in 2013, as a small community museum in the western part of India committed to its local context. The area has a history of ongoing communal tensions... more
UoA: Mytilene (Thesis), 2019 Open access to full-text in GR:... more
Again an old paper, published originally in Croatian, in the updated, Croatian edition of the book book Essays on museums and their theory - towards cybernetic museum (Eseji o muzejima i njihovoj teoriji, Zagreb, ICOM Croatia, 1997). The... more
The article shows the relationship between two socio-cultural institutions: a museum and a totemism. Not only their symbolic proximity is examined. The materials from museum expositions and social networks show how the practices of... more
El texto examina la dimensión ética de las experiencias museológicas que ha impulsado el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) en México 1972. Estos proyectos plantearon una expansión de la idea del museo, definido en la... more
This paper focuses on the role of cultural societies in the establishment of regional museums in Greece. It uses as a case study the Museum of Refugee Memory on the island of Lesvos, a small local institution, created and supported... more
La Mesa Redonda de Santiago de Chile de 1972 marcó un antes y un después en los museos y en la museología contemporánea. Su herencia fue la base para los planteamientos de la Nueva Museología; una museología que ponía el foco en la... more
Poster presentado en la sesión de carteles: Sexta Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán, INAH. Oaxaca, México; 30 junio 2011. Co-escrito con Guillermo Olmos Vázquez y Joel Navarro Zariñana.
دور المتحف فى تحقيق التواصل المجتمعى مع الفئات المهمشة"
إعداد دكتورة أمنية زغلول & اسماء حسين
مجلة المتاحف فى الشرق الأوسط 2020 إصدار هيئة الشارقة للمتاحف ، دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة
إعداد دكتورة أمنية زغلول & اسماء حسين
مجلة المتاحف فى الشرق الأوسط 2020 إصدار هيئة الشارقة للمتاحف ، دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة
This article explores whether and how organizational infrastructure and attitudes at museums, libraries and archives in England affect their propensity to diversify financing sources. After more than 50 years of policies and programmes to... more
Desde 2013, el proyecto arqueológico Santa María de la Antigua del Darién ha estado activo en el noroeste de Colombia, en una zona de fuerte conflicto interno. En este artículo se va a esbozar el proceso que se ha llevado a cabo hasta... more
The definition of ‘museum’ has changed, though some prefer to cling to that of a hundred years ago. The tension between what a museum is and what it does will continue, because the relationships and discourses we build among objects,... more
In the last decades in Italy there has been a new impetus to multidisciplinary approaches useful for reconstructing a past that often eludes scholars. In fact, various kinds of events and activities cannot be directly deduced from the... more
This article reveals how the “Remembering St. Petersburg Oral History Project” empowered African American youth through nontraditional methods of learning African American history and culture in their own neighborhoods, allowing youth to... more
In 2019 the team of the Corral Redondo Project returned to Iquipi, Peru, for their second field season (see Backdirt 2018:82–85). Excavations resumed at the site of Corral Redondo and included the opening of a new trench. Survey of the... more
New Museology was a part of museology responsible for enhancing the social function of museums as tools for the development of communities and social transformation. In the present article, this field of knowledge is presented as the... more
En este texto presentamos las formas de trabajo colectivas del Museo Comunitario y Club de Lectura de Sierra Hermosa (Zacatecas, México). El museo fue fundado en el año 2000 por el artista Juan Manuel de la Rosa, originario del lugar, a... more
Since 2010, negotiations surrounding the political interpretation of the past in Kenya are taking place within a new constitutional framework. With the implementation of devolution supposed to be at the core of democratisation,... more
The richness and the uniqueness of collection and heritage including underwater heritage in Southeast Asia are well-known throughout the world. One of the efforts to optimise the preservation of collection and underwater heritage in order... more
Role of museums in community outreach to marginalized groups
in the Middle East Journal"Vol. II pp.33-36, 2020 published by the Sharjah Museums Authority
Asmaa Abd El-Aal & Omnia Zaghlol
in the Middle East Journal"Vol. II pp.33-36, 2020 published by the Sharjah Museums Authority
Asmaa Abd El-Aal & Omnia Zaghlol
Training in pedagogical research is embedded in epistemological and methodological dialectics that are torn between the homogenization of pedagogical knowledge and its dialogical and reflexive construction. This conjuncture covers the... more
In 2018, two non-profit organizations working for LGBTQ+ communities in Colombia concluded that the legal recognition of rights might not have a significant impact in the decrease of violence against LGBTQ+ populations. In this critical... more
This article is about the new museum movement, steered by the author, as Director, IGRMS, Bhopal, between 1994 and 2000. Museum was converted from a 80 hectare, open air display of community art and architecture to a nationwide and global... more
Museums devoted primarily to presenting and promoting the arts, cultures, values, and histories of particular communities are constantly negotiating between the communities they serve and their contexts. They act as mediators between the... more