As the only four-year academic institution in the geographically large and rural state of Wyoming (WY), the University of Wyoming Art Museum (UWAM) was challenged to create meaningful access to the museum and ist collection ...

Museum objects can be used to inspire a wide variety of teaching and learning. This paper discusses how museum objects can be used to teach communications skills to medical students as part of a project investigating the ...

The intention of this article is to reflect on the challenges that museums face when collections include the human remains of indigenous communities. To debate the topic, the Museum of La Plata is used as an example. Part ...

"In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians" National Project was established 21 years ago by photographer Effy Alexakis and historian Leonard Janiszewski. We are researching and documenting the Greek-Australian historical and ...

It is the technicians in a university science department who often provide the most continuity: they have a permanence and a range of activities that, in the course of their time at a single lab, they often see come and ...

Debates on the representation of indigenous cultures in museums have come to the fore in the past thirty years. This paper examines the context for the opening of Waipapa Marae at the University of Auckland in 1988. It ...

It is now well known that one of the main challenges for university collections is the recognition of the usefulness of their heritage value within the institution. As long as university collections are used for research ...

Jeżeli zbiory naukowe są wykorzystywane, ich przechowywanie nie stanowi problemu. Rozmiary zbiorów były generalnie postrzegane - i akceptowane - jako miara jakości, a więc w konsekwencji powód do finansowania. W połowie ...