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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"New museology"”.
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Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums
… Using a comparative approach, I look at how "new museology" and "new museum theory" is or is not being implanted in respective military history museum exhibitions, and discuss how personal and collective memory play a role in the construction of the military museum. I also consider how …
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We Call It Pulling a Thread: Deconstructing Femininity at the Molly Brown House Museum
… of their namesake, Margaret Tobin Brown. Using new museology, feminist anthropology, and performance theory, I analyze data from staff interviews and tour participant observation to explore how the museum deconstructs popular understandings of historical femininity. Through visitor surveys, I …
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Museums, Disasters, and Resilience: The Presbytère's Living with Hurricanes—Katrina and Beyond Exhibit
… and how, what roles museum professionals and New Orleans community members held in the exhibit construction, and visitors' insight on the exhibit content. I argue that the promotion of New Orleans' culture and recovery post-Katrina throughout the exhibit has promoted the overall image of New …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
… pressing topic. Online museums, in line with ‘new museology’, tend to be more democratic than their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Projects based on websites or on mobile apps allow for a multiplicity of historical narratives, engage with their host and target communities, and exercise …
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Interpretation and visitors in two Islamic art exhibitions
… body of research on interpretative theory in new museology. However, no significant attempt has been made to amalgamate and apply the recent academic research in interpretative theory, including design interpretation, museum graphics and written interpretation to the analysis of Islamic art …
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The role of national museums in South Africa: A critical investigation into Iziko Museums of South Africa focusing on the representation of slavery
… in South Africa; what has the emergence of the new museology meant for museum practice; how have heritage studies transformed the South African historical landscape. The thesis begins with a theoretical literature overview of museums more generally and its links with power and representation and …
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The potential of digital representation: The changing meaning of the Ife ‘bronzes’ from pre-colonial Ife to the post-colonial digital British Museum
… Vogel, 1999). Today despite the impact of ‘the new museology’, strong traces of such biased interpretations and meanings are still evident in the framing of the Ife bronze head, exhibited at the British Museum Sainsbury African gallery as a ‘funerary object’ in postcolonial times. Such …
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Sustainable Development of Private Art Museums in China: A Narrative Inquiry Study
<p>Private art museums are a relatively new phenomenon in China, having first appeared in the 20th century. This brief timeline in the larger history of art museums, coupled with the fact most Chinese private art museums close after just a few years of operation, has led many to question how to …
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Casa Hipólito : história, memórias e património de uma fábrica torriense
Em 1902 António Hipólito, jovem migrante de Alcobaça para Torres Vedras, fundou uma empresa de metalomecânica ligeira, em nome individual, à qual chamou A Industrial. Latoeiro de folha branca, rapidamente se apercebeu das oportunidades facultadas por uma sociedade marcada pela ruralidade em que a …