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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"museum collections"”.
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Great Expectations: Researching Usability of Online Museum Collections
This evaluative study examined what museum visitors expect to find when they access a museum's online collection, how they are using online collections, and how successful their searches are. Increased reliance on the Internet in today's culture means the museum website is quickly becoming the face …
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Passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Museum Collections
… 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 movement of their objects. Objects …
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Late Tertiary Rodents from the Catamarca Province, Argentina : The Field Museum Collections
… by the Marshall Field Expedition for the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, are systematically reviewed and placed within the stratigraphic framework established at the time of collection. One new genus (Proeuryzygomys) and three new species (Abracoma intermedias, Proeuryzygomys …
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Postmortem Economies in Art: The Carceral Value and Unrested Labour of Ensouled Museum Collections
… of how value and labour are instrumentalized in museum collections through Eurocentric discourse and its philosophical underpinnings, together with the legal apparatuses of acquisition policies and collection processes, as I draw out in particular case studies. The aim is to contribute a …
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Exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-Americans (1774-1854), with reference to museum collections
This thesis is an interpretative study of early museum collections from Fiji. It combines art-‐historical, historical and anthropological approaches to museum items, in order to investigate exchange relations between Fijians and Euro-‐ Americans between 1774 and 1854. It proposes two ways of …
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An investigation of the factors affecting the degradation of cellulose acetate artefacts in museum collections
… are becoming an increasingly important part of museum collections. These plastics are already exhibiting signs of degradation, which raises the question of how they should be stored and treated. However, little is known about the specific degradation processes which occur. Further research is …
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Phenological responses of British orchids and their pollinators to climate change: an assessment using herbarium and museum collections
… data. This research validates natural history collections as a source of long-term phenological data and, using these data, investigates the phenological responses to temperature of flowering in British orchids and flight in their pollinators. Herbarium specimens of O. sphegodes collected in …
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Effects of burn season on bee and floral community in tallgrass prairies, and the use of museum collections data
… be adversely affected. Chapter 2 utilizes the museum specimens housed at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), University of Illinois, to address several issues concerning the use of museum collections to detect species distribution shifts and declines. Many changes to species …
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Interventions : Twentieth-century art collection schemes and their impact on local authority art gallery and museum collections of twentieth-century British art in Britain
… activity of local authority art galleries and museums in Britain. A key feature of these art collections was the representation of Twentieth Century British Art. The aim of this study is to examine, for the first time, this development as abroad cultural phenomenon, through the distinctive …
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Stories of Return: A Collection of Repatriation Narratives
… of Indigenous curatorial methods into museum collections practices. The project explores repatriation and collections caretaking practices at ten settler institutions through narratives of experience collected from museum staff. The findings of this research suggest that repatriation …
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Investigating Sexual Dimorphism in Ceratopsid Horncores
… Skulls of these exemplar taxa were measured in museum collections, and methods of analysing morphological variation were tested for their ability to demonstrate sexual dimorphism in their horns and horncores. Skulls and isolated horncores of Triceratops and Centrosaurus were measured in museum …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
… to demonstrate the important role which regional museum collections continue to play in archaeological research, and draws upon a survey of over 100 Romano-British pewter vessels from the modern ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, and Dorset now held in museum …
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Buried before the flood? A regional study of Romano-British tableware
… to demonstrate the important role which regional museum collections continue to play in archaeological research, and draws upon a survey of over 100 Romano-British pewter vessels from the modern ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, and Dorset now held in museum …
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Life history of a collection: the Tahltan materials collected by James A. Teit
… is currently organized in the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC). I address the questions: what is the life history of this collection? and what constitutes this collection today? Naming and classifying activities, macro-systems of museum classification, contribute to, and indeed …
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Towards a decolonised archaeology : A case study of the national Museum of Namibia
There is a need for museums and their collections to stay relevant and be responsive to pressing social issues such as indigenous rights. Museums and their collections are established for a variety of purposes. They are particularly meant to serve as recreational facilities, scholarly venues or …
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Chinese Gaming in the Nineteenth-Century American West: An Ethnic and Cultural Reassessment.
Re-analysis of archaeological museum collections can offer valuable insights into the significance of Chinese gaming in understanding Chinese ethnic identity in Nevada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Utilizing archaeological material from four Northern Nevada sites (Lovelock …
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Hidden Museum: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour for Contemporary Audiences
<p>The mystery of what lies behind a museum’s closed doors has intrigued visitors and perpetuated museum mythology for decades. Whether it’s peeking into collections storage, or being guided through rooms off the exhibition floor, visitors want unique access to museum collections. This Master’s …
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