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2010-01-28ZeitschriftenartikelFamily matters: The role of university museums in intergenerational learning Working within university museums in England, both museum educators and faculty staff are comfortable with pre-defined formal learning groups and subjects that ‘tie into the curriculum’. However, when engaging with ‘the ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelFor the public, with the public, by the public University museums have played a significant role in the development of science and engineering knowledge for a long time. The first professorship of technology at Edinburgh University was synonymous with the position of ...
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2011-02-16ZeitschriftenartikelFrom anatomy to zoology: Results on the history of university collections based on trans-disciplinary research The majority of research projects on the history of university collections are focused on a single collection or on collections of one discipline. Trans-disciplinary studies, however, despite opening up a different and ...
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2010-11-17ZeitschriftenartikelFrom independent university collections to a Wissenstheater: an ambitions project at the Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University owns over one hundred separate collections from all spheres of knowledge. Most of them are scarcely accessible to the general public and thus not well known. Since 1995 a group of scientists is ...
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2014-04-14ZeitschriftenartikelFrom the geophysical-meteorological Observatory of Modena to the Italian network of observatories The paper reconstructs the history of the Observatory of the University of Modena. The second part describes a network of Italian astronomical observatories, starting from creating a database of the collections by cataloguing ...
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2005-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelGoing the distance 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 ...
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2006-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelHarnessing the intangible: a Greek-Australian experience Historia ludzkiego życia w jakimkolwiek społeczeństwie nie może być ograniczona wyłącznie do ewidencjonowania dokumentów pisanych lub też do zbierania przedmiotów i materialnych pozostałości życia codziennego. Jednakże ...
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2011-02-17ZeitschriftenartikelHeritage in hospitals: Using museum objects to teach communications skills 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 ...
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2005-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelHow to develop an unrecognized scientific heritage This paper presents the nature and value of the zoological collections conserved in the University of Liege zoological museum.1 The "hidden" collections comprise the scientific heritage of former and even famous researchers ...
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2012-01-16ZeitschriftenartikelHuman remains in museum collections and their restitution to the communities: Museum of La Plata – Argentina 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 ...
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2005-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelICOM and UMAC: a joint venture
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2005-01-01Zeitschriftenartikel"In their own image: Greek-Australians" NationalProject "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 ...
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2003-01-01ZeitschriftenartikelIndigenous perspective on the collection of traditional Bongainville culture and art; past, present and future In this paper issues of ownership and protection of intellectual property of traditional art and culture are scrutinised. In particular, it addresses issues surrounding the historical lifting and acquisition of huge volumes ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelIntangible histories and the invisible technician 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 ...
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2010-10-28ZeitschriftenartikelIntegrating university museums into Museum Studies programs Integracja muzeów uniwersyteckich w programach studiów muzealnych Zbiory uniwersyteckie gromadzono tradycyjnie celem wspierania programów nauczania w ramach określonych dyscyplin akademickich. Duże kolekcje są przedmiotem ...
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2010-08-13Teil eines PeriodikumsIntensifying Support For and Increasing Audiences in University Museums and Collections
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2010-01-28ZeitschriftenartikelInternal audience: A key to success The University of Adelaide (founded 1874) is a third oldest university in Australia. It has 23 collections that represent the wide range of its academic research across the arts and the sciences. A central challenge in ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelInterpreting indigenous art in university collections 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 ...
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2011-08-18ZeitschriftenartikelInvestigación de licenciatura en los museos universitarios: Un estudio de caso en el Museo de la Vida Inglesa de la Universidad de Reading
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2011-02-11ZeitschriftenartikelIs research and teaching a key for preserving university collections and museums? 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 ...