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Бойко-Гагарін А.С. Нове надходження до зібрання НМІУ - "севський чех" 1686 року // Нумізматика і Фалеристика. - № 2. - Київ, 2018. - С. 17.
“Museums are sometimes described as the storehouses of the human condition. While museums can house artifacts and specimens from across time and place, it is how these items inspire others that truly gives them value. The same object or... more
In de collecties van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerpen (KMSKA), het Groeningemuseum in Brugge en het Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Gent (MSK) treft men een select aantal schilderijen dat gemaakt werd door... more
Facing multiple unprecedented calamities throughout 2020—a global pandemic, economic upheaval, social turmoil, and climate crisis—museums shuttered, decimated their staff, and gutted their organizational structures. Now, they seem to... more
William and Elizabeth (Crozer) Campbell pioneered archaeological fieldwork in the deserts of Southern California in the early 1900s. The couple employed an early form of environmental archaeology in their reconnaissance of extinct stream... more
It is seen that Nadir Shah once enthroned as a king in 1148/1736 in Persia, added his own name to the coins. Four types of coins were produced by him during his twelve years rule of Persia. During the period of Ahmad Shah (Durrani) Abdali... more
Eeva Holkeri, Marika Honkaniemi & Silja Lehtonen 2016. ”Elinkaari vai elossa pitäminen? Taideteosten materiaalivalintojen ja elinkaaren vaikutus poistoprosessiin” – Kokoelmapoistojen yhteiset käytännöt. Toim. Emilia Västi & Minna... more
The Indigenous People of the nordic countries, the Sámi, have historically been subjected to both the colonization of their customary regions (Sápmi) as well as four different nation states assimilation politics. The result of which has... more
The University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (hereafter, MAA) houses more than 250 objects that have been authoritatively traced to the three Pacific voyages led by James Cook. These include the largest documented... more
The discovery in 1924/25 of Xiongnu burials in the mountains of Noin-Ula in northern Mongolia caused a revolution in the knowledge of Russian and foreign researchers about the art, diplomacy and politics of ancient China. The exhibition... more
My Master's Thesis focuses on the integration of street art murals in museums and on the issues and challenges that emerge from these integrations and the decontextualization of an ephemeral art practice. I chose two case studies to... more
The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a contemporary and future... more
Full text and images available @ UCL blogs online: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-in-museums/2013/01/07/fascinus-the-winged-phallus-tattoo/
The museum storage in Greece, for the visitors, is a concept for an inaccessible sacred site (avaton), a place where treasures are hidden in order to be forgotten. For the greek reality, little is being done for the vitiation of this... more
University collections have unquestionably played a central role in the production of knowledge. They are valuable resources for studying the construction of traditions and identities, proving particularly interesting for understanding... more
Climate change has become one of the most significant and fastest growing threats to cultural heritage around the globe. Yet cultural heritage sites and collections also serve as invaluable sources of resilience for communities to address... more
The Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt is arguably the most recognizable artefact of the AIDS Crisis in Australia. Consisting of over 800 panels, most of the quilt is now divided between a public museum (Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences,... more
Resumo: O presente trabalho é um dos produtos do projeto de pesquisa intitulado Escritas da História no Museu Histórico Nacional (1922-2012), desenvolvido nesta mesma instituição, com o apoio da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do... more
In piena luce. Nove fotografi interpretano i Musei Vaticani. Volume pubblicato in occasione della mostra omonima, Milano, Palazzo Reale, 24 maggio-1 luglio 2018, Roma, Contrasto/Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2018 Autrice delle traduzioni... more
This paper is a result of work carried out at Las Cigarreras Cultural Centre, part of the Cultural Patrimony of Alicante City Council. It covers the organisation and classification of the greater part of the city MUSA museum’s coin... more
Lectura pos/decolonial de la Colección del MUSAC.
Facing multiple unprecedented calamities throughout 2020-a global pandemic, economic upheaval, social turmoil, and climate crisis-museums shuttered, decimated their staff, and gutted their organizational structures. Now, they seem to... more
Encyklopedie je výstupem výzkumného záměru Ministerstva zemědělství ČR MZE7507574101 Vědecké zhodnocení sbírkového fondu Národního zemědělského muzea, řešeného v letech 2005–2011. V publikaci jsou představena elementární hesla z... more
L’article consacré aux 15 monnaies de l’empereur Nerva qui se trouvent dans le Musée archéologique et ethnographique: 7 deniers, 3 sesterces, 1 dupondius et 4 as. Toutes les monnaies ont été achetées. Sur la base d’une comparaison aux... more
In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. However, changes to the field’s approaches to collections stewardship have come much more slowly. Active Collections critically examines... more
Faking is an act through which an object is provided with an identity not belonging to it, in order to deceive and to benefit from somebody’s detriment. Faking concerned archaeological finds, contemporary art sculptures, documents,... more
This is the catalog of the exhibition Alexandru Lapedatu (1876-1950) organized by The National Museum of Transylvanian History in 2018, part of the MNIT Share project. The museum holds approximately 400 documents, photographs,... more