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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Museum Practice"”.
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Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography
Museums in general, but especially in Europe and white settler societies, are grappling with relevance as their colonial histories are contested. Within this context, performance art has emerged as a powerful tool for challenging dominant narratives and analysing oppressive systems within cultural …
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The choreography of display : experiential exhibitions in the context of museum practice and theory
… and the experience of constructing and viewing museum exhibitions. Specifically I have been interested in the way in which certain exhibits facilitate powerful emotional responses from their viewers. I suggest that the curators of these kinds of exhibitions employ strategies which not only …
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‘The People’s Glossary’: Using dialogic art to create a common language for User-led Museum practice
… is especially true for those where participatory practices are being challenged due to their failure to prioritise public discourse over dominant, institutional ones. Even after attempts to democratise collections via processes to co-write interpretation, they struggle to represent community …
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Material culture, context and meaning : a critical investigation of museum practice, with particular reference to the South African Museum
… separation of cultural form and social practice, which is a pervasive problem in archaeology and material culture studies in general. This problem is addressed with reference to museum practice, focusing in particular on the social role of artefacts in two contextual domains - that of …
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The problem of the sacred in postmodern museum practice : some thoughts on the Rideau Street Convent Chapel in the National Gallery of Canada
… of the permanent collection on display in this Museum. This study enquires into the detrimental effects of the institutionalization of objects which form the material base for spiritual belief systems. I argue that the National Gallery denies the original liturgical function of the Chapel by …
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Listening to Museums: Sounds as objects of culture and curatorial care
This practice-based project begins with an exploration of the acoustic environments of a variety of contemporary museums via field recording and sound mapping. Through a critical listening practice, this mapping leads to a central question: can sounds act as objects analogous to physical objects …
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Re-modelling clay: ceramic practice and the museum in Britain (1970-2014)
… thesis analyses how the dialogue between ceramic practice and museum practice has contributed to the discourse on ceramics. Taking Mieke Bal’s theory of exposition as a starting point, it explores how ‘gestures of showing’ have been used to frame art‑oriented ceramic practice. Examining the gaps …
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Playing with Aesthetics in Art Museums
<p>"Playing with Aesthetics in Art Museums" presents a strategy for using design thinking to mediate engrossing art experiences for adult museum visitors. Built upon a substantiated family resemblance between art and play experiences, the study synthesizes a typology of aesthetic theories, ten …
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Towards a Professional Learning Dialogue in Mexican Contemporary Art Museums
… amongst audiences in contemporary art museums, in particular due to the potential difficulty of interpreting this type of art. This study argues that when dialogue between the museum and audience promotes balanced opportunities to express ideas and information, the museum can also …
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Woven Kin: Exploring Representation and Collaboration in Navajo Weaving Exhibitions
… recent trends in scholarship that establish museums as complex sites where representations of Native American cultures are actively negotiated, this thesis explores the relationship between representational strategies and the employment of critical Indigenous methodologies by museum …
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From Self-Determination to Decolonization: How American Indian Activism Reshaped Museum Spaces
… catalyzed fundamental transformations in how museums represent Indigenous cultures, histories, and peoples. Through analyzing the demands for tribal sovereignty, cultural authority, and equitable representation during this pivotal era, I show how these principles were applied in contemporary …
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Reconciling the "mystery letter" : Frémont's fourth expedition, John Kern Strecker, and the Baylor University Museum.
Found amongst the collections of the Mayborn Museum Complex, the subject of this thesis is an enthralling fragment of a "Mystery Letter." Written in 1849 by Benjamin J. Kern, a surviving member of the Fourth Frémont Expedition, the letter weaves a harrowing tale of starvation, mutiny, and …
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
<p>This thesis focuses on better museum practices, social justice museums, and the unforeseen challenges that museums encounter when collaborating and consulting with communities. More specifically, this project looks at the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) and the exhibit <em>Report to the …
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Gibeon Revisited: An Integrated Approach to a Bioarchaeological Collection
The Penn Museum contains a set of previously unstudied skeletal remains from a site called Gibeon, located near the modern Palestinian village, al-Jib. I analyzed these remains over a year and a half, using two main frameworks. The first, and primary framework centered on the collection of the …
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DECOLONIAL MUSEUM MATH: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THE DISPLAY STRATEGIES IN THE ISLAMIC ART GALLERIES AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO AND THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
Calls to “decolonize” the museum have reverberated through the fields of anthropology, art history, and museum studies in the past few years. But what might a “decolonized” museum exhibit look like in practice? This paper presents two case studies, the Islamic galleries at the Art Institute of …
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The African art collection in the Iziko South African National Gallery: past, present and possible futures
… Town, which is South Africa's oldest 1 state art museum, began growing an African art collection (called the Permanent African Art Collection) in 1967. The collection today is cared for and owned by the Iziko Museums of South Africa Art Collections, or Iziko Art Collections. The very first …
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The African art collection in the Iziko South African National Gallery: past, present and possible futures
… Town, which is South Africa's oldest 1 state art museum, began growing an African art collection (called the Permanent African Art Collection) in 1967. The collection today is cared for and owned by the Iziko Museums of South Africa Art Collections, or Iziko Art Collections. The very first …
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Understanding and Telling Stories across Online and Real-world Cultural and Historical Artefacts
… objects and events. This is the rationale behind museum curation, which organises objects in the physical museum space to reveal how they are related. This thesis explores how to support people to tell and experience narratives across multiple objects. For the online world, a model of curatorial …
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A Global Citizenship Framework in Museums: Global Issues, Local Concerns and Diplomatic Potentials
… the global citizenship engagements of museums to offer insights into changing notions of identity, belonging, and citizenship in museums and to explore their social, global, and diplomatic implications for contemporary museum practice. Through in-depth examinations of three institutions …
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