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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Museum Practices"”.
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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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THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSEUM PRACTICES AT WORK
… work focuses on the use of anthropological and museum theory, methods and practices in the development and construction of a museum. It also illustrates how museums can be used as active research sites for anthropologists. This dissertation uses the Hotel Metropolitan Museum, a new African …
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Sartorial disruption: an investigation of the histories, dispositions, and related museum practices of the dress/fashion collections at Iziko Museums as a means to re-imagine and re-frame the sartorial in the museum
… sartorial objects of three formerly separate museums – the South African Museum, the South African National Gallery and the South African Cultural History Museum. Although these three museums were amalgamated in 1999, along with eight other Western Cape institutions to form Iziko Museums, each …
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Maori and museums : the politics of indigenous recognition : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Museum Studies at Massey University, Palmerston North
… of the 'common ground': sites, including public museums, within which different cultures negotiate their relationships within the modern nation-state, where the rights of indigenous peoples can be recognised on the basis of the principles of mutual recognition, continuity and consent. This thesis …
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Multiculturalism and the museum : three case studies.
… groups within their walls. This has forced museums to reevaluate their exhibit spaces in order to create more inclusive, diverse interpretations. Basic museum practices have been challenged and the role of the museum has been called into question. Case studies of the Bob Bullock Texas State …
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Early Photography in East Texas: An Exhibition
<p>The Stone Fort Museum is a steward for much of the historical and cultural character of East Texas. A new exhibition, such as the “Early Photography in East Texas” project is in part representative of these same social values. The exhibition serves to look at East Texas specifically as a …
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Looking Through the Trees: An Anthropologist, a Museum, and the Sasquatch
… It focuses on how the Sasquatch Outpost museum contributes to this impact, especially through outdoor activities, visiting the museum, visiting the Outpost general store, and the sharing of sighting stories. This work takes an in-depth look at the concept of the amateur museum, or …
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Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy
… of black female nudes. These racialized museum practices were informed by a double standard of propriety which turned on the race of the subject.
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Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
… of Indigenous human rights at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this study examines how museums can represent, educate, and advocate for Indigenous human rights. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out at the museum in July 2019 and the …
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Interpretation in Native American Tribal Museums
… methods used in Native American tribal museums have received minimal focus from researchers. Research on this topic generally focus on the National Museum of the American Indian, and as such the understanding of the Native American lens is limited. The objective of this research is to …
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Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
… space but have not fully considered the role of museums and the politics of memory as central to the debate about contesting erasure in low-income areas. While Latin American memory studies scholars have analyzed traumatic events such as dictatorships and civil wars in the region and …
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Shifting Curatorial Strategies for Art from Latin America and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1956 - 2004
… explores changing curatorial strategies at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This is preceded by an assessment of the Museum of Modern Art’s earlier role in systematizing and defining this field throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Three exhibitions of art from Latin America and Latino art will …
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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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Ceramics Collections: exploring object engagement beyond the known historic models of clay practice
… the curation of ceramic artefacts held by museums seeking to reframe the relationship between material culture and clay culture, and the modes and devices of how ceramics are displayed. These five exhibition works have interrogated traditional understandings of ceramic collections in …
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Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
… collection of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), where the great number of wardrobes in its collections remains a largely untapped resource. My thesis examines the relationship between the V&A as a museum of art and design and these highly personal collections of dress through a case …
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Museums, Connections, and Imagination in the Making of a British World, 1870-1945
… of the nineteenth century to 1945. Focusing on museums and art galleries in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada, as well as on the scientists, philanthropists, and artists who gravitated around them, it develops a comparative and connected understanding of these institutions. More …
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Intangible heritage and livelihoods : a case study on the heritage of Purulia chhau dance from India
… on heritage nomination process and current museum practices, at the expense of a detailed consideration of alternative safeguarding measures and of the heritage ability to function in the wider sphere of people’s life. This PhD recognises the intangible heritage roles in people’s livelihood …
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Heritage As Process: Constructing The Historical Child’s Voice Through Art Practice
… takes place in the present (2010). In heritage practices there are opposing discourses and positions. Artists add another voice to the discourses of heritage and have been described as ‘critical figure[s] in the heritage process’ (Howard, 1998) because they present institutional critique, craft …
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