World Expo is a grand gathering of the world cultures, during which the host city welcomes people from around the world and also takes this significant opportunity to promote its culture and spirit. Besides the new pavilions ...

The International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC) identifies and enhances the strengths of university museums and collections. To do this, UMAC must find ground common to all the museums and ...

Este texto descreve urna proposta de partilha de recursos informâticos e multimédia, em gérai caros e pouco acessiveis à grande maioria dos museus de ciência e de história naturai. Sugere ainda a criaçâo, no seio do ICOM, ...

This article aims at comparing the number of visitors in Brazilian university and non-university museums of art. It will also try to explain the ways in which universities adopt in order to captivate new/old audiences ...

The purpose of this paper is to present some ideas on museum exhibitions and aspects of significance of the museum object. It aims at understanding the changes in meaning intrinsic to a museum object—the different meanings ...

University museums have a rich history, having played a crucial role in the development of collections and museums. Some of the most important museum collections today are to be found within or attached to a university. ...

This paper discusses the ongoing efforts of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, at the University of Oregon, to diversify itself and the publics it serves through programming, community outreach, institutional change and ...

The small museum collections of the University of Helsinki will be transferred to excellent new facilities right in the city centre. Some of these collections specialise in the more than 360-year history of the University ...

This paper charts a collaborative experience between university scholars and museum practitioners from two faculties of the University of Porto (Engineering and Humanities). It is based on an historic experimental apparatus ...