The recent history of museums, from the sixteenth and seventeenth century wunderkammer to the present, is relatively welldocumented. In marked contrast, the pre-history of university museums remains largely unstudied. This ...

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 ...

One of the most important private donations in the Complutense University of Madrid is Luis Simarro's legacy. The Simarro Foundation was formed in 1927 with a collection of paintings by Simarro’s friends such as Sorolla, ...

This 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 ...

The Veterinary Museum, Complutense University, Madrid, is an interesting example of institutional adaptation. From its establishment, it has had to reinvent itself in response to political, social, economic and academic ...

Over 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 ...