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This article traces a century of efforts to create a National Museum in Guatemala City. Political instability and natural disasters thwarted these efforts, which nevertheless, formed a significant chapter in the country’s museum history.... more
The research illustrates multiple experiences and strategies adopted in museums and in the world of cultural heritage in the field of digital storytelling to guide the future design of narrative digital solutions. Its aim is to provide as... more
Many social theorists have suggested that we are currently living in a period in which the identities of the past are becoming increasingly irrelevant and in which new identities, and new identity formations, are being created. The major... more
Review of the new ethnographic museum at the time of its opening in 2006
In search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manufacturing them. The essays edited by János Bak, Patrick Geary and Gábor Klaniczay explore... more
The Changi story is synonymous with suffering, hardship, and the Australian prisoner-of-war experience in the Second World War. It is also one of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and survival. Combining prisoners’ cartoons, paintings,... more
The Anniversary Edition is published in the year of the 100th anniversary of one of the most famous museums of Russia - the State Museum-Reserve “Peterhof”. In May – June 1918, the suburban imperial summer residences — Peterhof, Tsarskoe... 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
Artefacts from the Cook Islands have been collected since the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) opened in 1865 as the Colonial Museum. In this article we provide a historical overview of the Cook Islands collection at Te... more
The twentieth century saw tremendous change in attitudes to sexuality but museums have generally been slow to reflect these shifts. The history of the relationship between museums, sexuality, and society in the United Kingdom is the main... more
This document was published as a centrepiece for Post Lifestyle, The Post Newspaper in 2010. It is technically a profile of the Livingstone National Museum in Zambia and is stored here by the author purely for archival purposes.
Breve reflexión sobre el museo como domesticación de la protesta y la figura del vigilante en espacios cada vez más vacíos de sentido.
An earlier version of this text appeared in German in the publication "Museum unplugged – Eine Selbstbefragung" (2015), eds. Friedrich von Borries and Roland Nachtigäller, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the museum Marta... more
Creatividad, emoción y espacio Sandra Navarrete: Prólogo. Creatividad, emoción y espacio // Primera Parte. 1. La cuestión sensorial en las experiencias pedagógicas de diseño | Andrés Gustavo Asarchuk y María Macarena Fernández Rabadán: De... more
Kotlomanov A.O. Twilight Biennale: Russian art life as if it mattered. Vestnik SPbSU. Arts, 2018, vol. 8, issue 2, pp. 320–324. (In Russian) Котломанов А.О. Сумерки биеннале: российская художественная жизнь, как если бы она имела значение... more
Looking beyond Poland's internationally lauded new Jewish museums, this article asks how Jews are represented in longer-standing folk and ethnographic museums whose mandates have been to represent the historical culture of the Polish... more
Бойко-Гагарін А.С. Застосування соціальних мереж у музейному маркетингу / А.С. Бойко-Гагарін // Матеріали міжнародної науково-практичної конференції, присвяченої 75-річчю Ізмаїльського державного гуманітарного університету ["Дунайські... more
Resumen de la creación y evolución del Museu Etnològic de Benaguasil. Se efectuó un balance de la vida de esta bisoña colección museográfica; de su nacimiento y de su historia por parte de M. Bondia, y por parte de T. Hurtado de su... more
This paper draws on current themes of digitisation and access in two specific museum contexts—the Reciprocal Research Network in Vancouver, Canada and the Luthuli Museum in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As museums and cultural heritage... more
In April 2013, fifteen members of the Māori tribal arts group Toi Hauiti travelled to New York to reconnect with their carved wooden ancestor figure, Paikea, at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). They gave educational... more
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of reflection, changing the ways in which many of us live and work. Prominent campaigns by Black Lives Matter during the first lockdown mainstreamed discussions around anti-racism within museums,... more
Caribbean Heritage promises a multidisciplinary contribution that exposes through twenty-five essays the diverse contemporary perspectives on Caribbean heritage. It probes the rich range of heritage, from cultural to natural and tangible... more
Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth century in museums and heritage sites across the world shape political, social and cultural identities. Drawing on an... more
British planters, merchants and other non-landholding persons from Barbados owned and transported enslaved persons to the South Carolina colonial settlement as early as 1670. However, there is minimal specific information about Africans... more
This paper provides a comparative historical perspective of how Australian museums have exhibited stories of migration over the past three decades, with a focus on the use of objects. The pioneering of community access spaces, collecting... more
This chapter examines the integral role that conservation plays within fashion curation.
Publication introduction article.
Under the forces of an oil-based economy and the fast paced change, nationals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf states are becoming very keen to preserve, represent and invent a distinct 'national' culture and heritage.... more
British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 10 (2008): 1-37. This essay examines the conceptual development of Egyptian museums from the mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. It is particularly concerned with the... more
Kültür, çok geniş kapsamlı bir kavramdır. Kültürün farklı açılardan pek çok tanımı yapılmıştır. Sosyal miras ve gelenekler birliği olarak kültür; varlığımızın yapısını belirleyen, sosyal bir süreçle öğrendiğimiz uygulama ve inançların,... more
En application du Code de la propriété intellectuelle du 1 er juillet 1992, une reproduction partielle ou totale à usage collectif de la présente publication est strictement interdite sans autorisation de l'éditeur. Il est rappelé à cet... more
Museums and cultural heritage, with their historical, sociological and communicative dimensions, offer an inexhaustible research area for feminist analyses. It is an urgent scholarly project to conduct research on how and why present-day... more
Das Museum Iran-e Bastan wurde unter der Regierung Reza Shah Pahlavi (reg. 1925-1941) als Archäologisches Museum 1937 in Teheran gegründet. Der Gründungskontext bettet sich in eine sehr zügig voranschreitende Nationalisierungsphase... more