Browsing University Museums and Collections Journal 5/2012 by Title
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelRecent recommendations by the German Council of Science and Humanities on scientific collections as research infrastructures A reportThe German Council of Science and Humanities provides advice to the German government and states on the structure and development of higher education and research. In January 2011, the Council presented recommendations on ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelTaking care of identity, memories and heritages Experiences at the Museum of the Federal University of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, BrazilThis paper presents the project “Planning Unifal’s museum: the student’s relationship with Unifal’s heritage and memory” that is being developed since 2008 in order to guide the students of the university and stimulate the ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelThe collection of a non-collecting institution A case study of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of WashingtonThis is a case study of how the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington, a non-collecting institution, became responsible for a collection of some 750 works of all different sizes and media that had accumulated ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelThe historical instruments from Valongo Observatory,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Valongo Observatory is part of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was founded in 1881 with the primary mission of being used for the practical lessons given at Rio de Janeiro Polytechnic School. It has a ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelThe new communication technologies for sharing and participatory Italian university museums Thanks to their peculiar identities linked to the specific disciplines which determined their creation, university museums offer an interesting experience to reflect on the role that the community of museum professionals ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelThe Polo Museale of Sapienza University of Rome an opportunity for culture, education and tourismOver the years museums used new technologies to catalogue their collections both for internal management and to make them available to citizens, scholars and tourists. New technologies meet their needs by disseminating ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelThe University of Lisbon’s cultural heritage survey (2010–2011) In this paper, a survey of the cultural heritage of the University of Lisbon (2010–2011) will be presented, with a focus on the methodological approach. Main results will be discussed, as well as future perspectives regarding ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelThe ‘Ferreira da Silva’ Chemistry Laboratory a valuable asset in a university collectionThe relevant scientific and teaching activity in chemistry the Polytechnic Academy of Porto was involved in, at the turn of the 19th century, led to the decision of assigning a significant area of a building under construction ...
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelUniversity collections and object-based pedagogies Engagement with objects, either directly or through digital media, has long been recognized as a viable, constructivist pedagogy, capable of mediating significant meaning and context. The increasing uptake of digital ...
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2012-10-24Teil eines PeriodikumsUniversity collections and university history and identity Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Committee of ICOM for University Museums and Collections (UMAC), Lisbon, Portugal, 21st–25th September 2011
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2012-10-24ZeitschriftenartikelUniversity, socio-economic history and identity The Museum of Foreign Debt, a museum without a collectionHow did a topic linked to macroeconomics come to be part of the cultural identity of a country and have a museum? The idea of its creation arose in the mid-2001, when a group of graduate students and professors from the ...
