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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"museum collection"”.
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Evaluation of gender representation of museum collection positions in the United States.
… and salary of the profession. The museum community has experienced many changes over the years regarding these factors. To determine the effect of these changes on the museum field, data pertaining to museum collection positions were obtained by examining 9,475 museum listings from …
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Reframing museum epistemology for the information age: a discursive design approach to revealing complexity
… on physical knowledge institutions - focusing on museums. The research charts adapting knowledge schemas used in museum knowledge organisation and discusses the potential for a new knowledge schema, the network, to establish a new epistemology for museums that reflects contemporary hyperlinked and …
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Exploring the interactive element in architecture: a children's discovery museum for Washington, D.C.
… fresh new approach taken by today's children's museums offers great potential for an equally fresh approach to the architecture which houses these special places. Just as the "exhibits" at the children's museums invite a new relationship between the visitor and the museum collection, so too …
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Passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Museum Collections
<p>Keeping a collection organized and accounted for is a never-ending struggle for museums of every type. New to museums and the collections management field, Radio Frequency Identification is a growing technology that museums can implement to keep track of the location, status, condition, and …
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Collecting Culture in the 'Imaginary Musical Museum': General Music Textbooks 1971 - 2005
<p>This study utilizes a museum lens to examine general music textbooks as a "musical museum." Through an analysis of twelve general music textbooks published between 1971 and 2005, this study examines general music textbooks as purposeful collections that reflect embedded values and assumptions …
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Jackson Creek Arts and Trails, LLC: Museum Travel Immersion Programs
<p>Museums have become increasingly oriented towards reaching new audiences, encouraging visitor loyalty, and informing the public about their overall relevance. Innovation in programming is a centerpiece of this effort, including a provision of programs for all age groups and demographics. At the …
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An archaeological study of the Zimbabwe culture capital of Khami, south-western Zimbabwe
… documents, surveying and mapping, excavations, museum collection analysis, and artefact studies, in order to collect datasets from various sections of the site, including the walled and the nonwalled areas. The main indication is that there is a great deal of similarity in material culture …
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ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY IN SEX DETERMINATION USING THE OS COXA: A COMPARISON OF METRIC VS. PHENICE METHOD
… 101 individuals of known sex from the Maxwell Museum collection were used in this study. Sex was correctly estimated in 93.1 % of all individuals for both methods with a higher accuracy estimated in females than males. The Phenice method incorrectly estimated 7 males and no females. The metric …
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Looking back and looking forward: the Silver Studio Collection as heritage asset and educational resource, 1968-2018
The focus of this thesis is the Silver Studio Collection, a body of material that originated as the working contents of a commercial design studio and which is now the focal collection of the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), at Middlesex University. The Silver Studio opened in 1880 …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… (Navatu 17A and Ugaga Island) and one museum collection (Karobo VL H3/1),the Importance of Internal processes as drivers for Fiji's cultural development. While external contacts clearly did take place, the ceramic evidence Indicates it did not dominate mid- sequence events In Fiji. It …
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The Role of Dress in the Embodiment and Articulation of Chinese Diaspora Identity in the UK
… previously developed in relation to Western museum collection practices, and research into the contemporary Chinese fashion industry has grown alongside China’s increased importance across global fashion markets. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of what Chinese-style dress means …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… (Navatu 17A and Ugaga Island) and one museum collection (Karobo VL H3/1),the Importance of Internal processes as drivers for Fiji's cultural development. While external contacts clearly did take place, the ceramic evidence Indicates it did not dominate mid- sequence events In Fiji. It …
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Historical Genetic Analysis Of Horned Lark (Eremophila Alpestris) Specimens From The Prairie Pothole Region
… 2 (ND2) gene. Horned Larks were sampled from museum collections, with ages ranging from 13 - 120 years old. 5mm x 1mm feather cuttings were removed using a non-invasive feather sampling method from each specimen for genetic analysis. </p> <p> This sampling method was verified on 15 total …
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Illicit trade and cultural heritage in South Africa: investigating the policy environment and opportunities for digitisation
… of cultural heritage assets; and integrating museum collection records management systems with investigative agencies' databases for cross-referencing analysis to comprehensively combat the illegal movement of cultural heritage items.
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A Common Representation Format for Multimedia Documents
… image retrieval, World Wide Web searching, and museum collection retrieval.
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An archaeology of artisan identities and global relationships: Case studies of 19th and early 20th century weavers and carvers from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Micronesia
… dancing paddles and carved panels from over 30 museums. Each museum collection is conceptualised as an archaeological cache, and together they represent global archaeological sites of cosmopolitan interactions and relationships. As a discussion point, the research briefly compares this identity …
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Drawing as Epistemology for Morphology
… including interdisciplinary collaboration, museum collection study, workshop design, and exhibition making. This mixed method approach is conducted within the context of scientific institutions like the Natural History Museum and Imperial College, London to address two research questions. …
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The Encyclopedic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rudolfine Kunstkammer as Expressions of Power
… during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, collections were created as repositories of art, technology, ethnographic curiosities and natural wonders. Collecting first became a widespread practice among Italian humanists of the late Renaissance who, influenced by the work of Pliny, were …