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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Natural History Museums"”.
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Decolonizing Natural History Museums Through Volunteer Engagement
In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural history museum is attempting to decolonize, they must do so at all levels of …
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Collections Management Systems at Natural History Museums: A Centralized Approach
<p>Natural history museum collections are an invaluable learning tool for audiences of many ages. However, learning experiences can be hampered if collections are poorly managed. Inconsistent object numbering systems, scant information associated with a specimen, and differences in records …
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Re-Presenting Taxidermy: Contemporary Art Interventions in Natural History Museums
Most natural history museums in Europe and North America were established during the late nineteenth century with the aim of preserving and developing a collection of botanical, geological and zoological specimens to facilitate research in the natural sciences and at the same time educate the …
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Managing Education Collections: The Care/Use Balance in Natural History Museums
Although many natural history museums across the country manage education collections, not much literature exists on the level of care these collections receive and how institutions make decisions regarding this care. The purpose of this research study was to examine the standards of care for …
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Assessment of management and collection of zoological specimens at natural history museums in Malaysia
… and lack of understanding on the importance of natural history collections is one. Ineffective dissemination of biodiversity knowledge, poor maintenance of natural history collection and lack of understanding as perceived by Malaysian why the need for a natural history museum are problems …
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Strict Fidelity to Nature: Scientific Taxidermy, U.S. Natural History Museums, and Craft Consensus, 1880s to 1930s
As taxidermy increased in prominence in American natural history museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of trying to replicate nature through mounts and displays became increasingly central. Crude practices of overstuffing skins gave way to a focus on the artistic …
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Analysis of current practices in natural history museums' in the interpretation of mammoths with implications for the Mayborn Museum Complex.
… a 14-question survey, distributed to U.S. natural history museums. My purpose for doing so was to inform my recommendations regarding future exhibit renovations at the Mayborn Museum Complex. I have recommended a three phase renovation plan for the museum, supported by the data collected. …
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Fiducial accountability for collections : a comparison of traditional and non-traditional museums.
… of traditional and non-traditional museums regarding non-living biological collections is clarified through a historical review of natural history museums, botanical gardens, and zoological gardens, and an examination of their mandating documents, such as articles of incorporation, …
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The visitor centre: artistic reconfigurations of multispecies relationships in an urban environment
… examines representations of nonhuman species in natural history museums, where the categorical separation of human and nonhuman species is maintained through a static, hierarchical taxonomic narrative. This is demonstrated in a case study of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in …
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Physics, construction, experience : an architecture environment for informal science education
… facilities (to include science centers, natural history museums, aquariums and zoos) have dramatically evolved from the 17th century room of curiosity cabinets to the modern-day container of interactive exhibits, very little has been done to incorporate architectural experience into a …
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
… past for much of the twentieth century. While natural history museums are the most obvious spaces in which to encounter extinct animals, these scientific venues have never held exclusive rights to the charismatic mega fauna of the planet's past, nor have they controlled their cultural meanings …
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Morphological, ecological and molecular examination of the seacucumber species along the Red Sea coast of Egypt and Gulf of Aqaba : with the investigation of the possibility of using DNA barcoding technique as a standard method for seacucumber ID
… to try to identify the unknown specimens in the natural history museums around the globe.The use of the molecular DNA barcoding technique proves to be a good reliable method for sea cucumber ID; the technique was capable of resolving some of the standing taxonomic problems including the …
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Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum
… displays in three venues: the trading post, the natural history museum, and the fine art museum. The study concludes that the fine art museum has the most potential to foster a dialogue about the contemporary Navajo, whose identity is a product of continuity and change. Chapter one discusses the …
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Effects of burn season on bee and floral community in tallgrass prairies, and the use of museum collections data
… on the overall bee community. Amount of semi-natural area in the landscape and the matrix surrounding each prairie fragment may play a larger role in maintaining stable bee communities in highly fragmented habitats. Land managers can burn during both seasons knowing that bee communities will …
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Site-based data curation: bridging data collection protocols and curatorial processes at scientifically significant sites
… do different stakeholders value about the natural sites at which they work? How do these values manifest in data collection protocols, curatorial processes, and infrastructures? And how are sometimes conflicting stakeholder priorities mediated through the use and development of shared …
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Archive als Orte des kulturellen Gedächtnisses
… und zugänglich zu machen. Die Sammlungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) wuchsen während der Zeit der europäischen Kolonialexpansion stark an. Naturalien aus der ganzen Welt gelangten nach Berlin und gleichzeitig fand ein wissenschaftlicher Austausch zu denselben statt. Die Spuren …