One of the greatest challenges for university museums is to convince the public, the government, and private donors of the value of scientific collections. Too many visitors experience museum collections as simply vast ...

Patras University is organizing a new Science and Technology Museum in order to facilitate and encourage contacts between the University and the town. From the early planning stages onwards, the words 'Pedagogy, Heritage ...

This paper discusses the recent developments of the Italian Network of University Museums, starting with the first results of the census and database of the existing structures and collections. Proposals for the gathering ...

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 ...

Collecting and keeping objects is a basic human characteristic that is important for improving the quality of our lives. As a result, museums are 'social enterprises' that have as an ultimate operational objective - a ...

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 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 Petrie Museum has conducted significant quantitative and qualitative research with academic audiences and with the general public, and is experimenting with new ways of presenting its collections to address a broader ...

Higher education is under intense review in Australia. It is 'at the crossroads'. As the findings of the review are published, new opportunities are emerging for university museums to re-position themselves in the contemporary ...