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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"national museums"”.
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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
This thesis is concerned with the ways in which museums have been used as vehicles to convey notions of the nation. It looks specifically at the Iziko Museums of South Africa's social history sites that deal with the subject of slavery. It is concerned with the absence of a narrative of slavery at …
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Navigating Barriers in Taiwanese Museums
… with disabilities. The social responsibility of museums as cultural institutions to be inclusive has been widely discussed. To cement that fact the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has revised the definition of museum in 2022. Improvements in museum’s accessibility services to people with …
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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials
<p>Museums are places where events of the past can be explained, appreciated, and understood. While efforts are often taken to provide a neutral position in the presentation of complicated and emotional historical events, there may exist external pressure to present a more overtly nationalist …
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The Nigerian history machine and the production of Middle Belt historiography
… produced such as history departments, archives, museums and the publishers of history and scholarly texts. I see these processes as a kind of "history machine", defined as the interconnected system of social technologies through which the Nigerian state defines the discursive limits of the nation …
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User-appropriate viewer for high resolution interactive engagement with 3D digital cultural artefacts.
The core mission of museums and cultural institutions is the preservation, study and presentation of cultural heritage content. In this technological age, the creation of digital datasets and archives has been widely adopted as one way of seeking to achieve some or all of these goals. However, …
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La conservación del patrimonio cultural inmueble durante conflictos armados : la guerra civil española, (1936-1939)
… Also, it covers the participation of the National side, the rebels fighting the Second Spanish Republic, in the task of repairing nnonumental sites, most of which were of a religious character. Republic Services were mostly of a basic emergency nature, and they were carried out by the …