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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"university museum"”.
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Internationalization: Utilizing the University Museum
… the author explored the question of how university museums can contribute to a more holistic and enriching educational experience for international students on American campuses, using the University of Denver as a case study. Findings from workshops and interviews conducted by the author …
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Museum Informatics and the Evolution of an Information Infrastructure in a University Museum
From 1997 to 2002, Spurlock Museum staff members inventoried, packed, and moved their collections from old to new facilities, despite having little experience with any of these tasks. Unable to plan ahead with any confidence, they had to build an information infrastructure to support these …
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Recovering From Modesty: A Response to theAlteration of An Old Master At Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
<p>In 1959, the Bob Jones University Gallery of Sacred Art acquired St. Francis Receiving the Christ Child from the Virgin, a large altarpiece by Denys Calvaert. The painting was altered during restoration, as someone painted a wisp of fabric to cover the exposed genitals of the nude Christ Child. …
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Reconciling the "mystery letter" : Frémont's fourth expedition, John Kern Strecker, and the Baylor University Museum.
Found amongst the collections of the Mayborn Museum Complex, the subject of this thesis is an enthralling fragment of a "Mystery Letter." Written in 1849 by Benjamin J. Kern, a surviving member of the Fourth Frémont Expedition, the letter weaves a harrowing tale of starvation, mutiny, and …
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Walking the Tightrope: On the Balance of Digital Technology in Museum Exhibits and the UB Anderson Gallery Interactive
… on how the shift towards democratization of museum knowledge base has impacted the balance between authentic objects and technological additions. It hopes to identify what constitutes a “balanced” and comprehensive visitor experience. I investigate this phenomenon in a case study at the …
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Collaborative Legacy of the First Ceramics Laboratories at the Penn Museum: The WPA and Beyond
… the Works Progress Administration and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now called the Penn Museum), which employed federally funded workers and the burgeoning methods of ceramic technological analysis to reveal more information on the Museum’s various ceramic …
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Towards a Professional Learning Dialogue in Mexican Contemporary Art Museums
… amongst audiences in contemporary art museums, in particular due to the potential difficulty of interpreting this type of art. This study argues that when dialogue between the museum and audience promotes balanced opportunities to express ideas and information, the museum can also …
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Structure and deconstruction
… thoughts operational. The proposal is for a University Museum at the parking lot at the northwest edge of the VPI Campus. The project begins with an analysis and critique of the current placeless condition of the site. The site is restructured with respect to the latent campus structure, …
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A Study of the Form and Function of a Select Group of Minoan Utilitarian Ceramics
… pertinent artifacts are located in the Heraklion Museum, Crete. All of these were inspected, catalogued, drawn and photographed. New material from the recent excavations at Kato Zakro, Crete (excavated from 1961 to 1972) is also included. Additional material was observed and recorded at the …
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Using Museomics to Investigate Extinction and Decline in British Butterflies
… in insects are scarce. In the Natural History Museum in London and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, there are over 69.5 million specimens across their botanical, zoological and entomological collections. Museum specimens have the potential to be used as a conservation tool for …
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Ecomorphological and Ecometric Approaches to Clarifying Homo sapiens Palaeoecology
… on modern bovid astragali from the National Museum of Kenya, the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The models created using the modern data are 2.1-3.2x better than chance at predicting habitat types assigned to the specimens in the …
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Catalogazione e fruizione delle strumentazioni scientifiche di interesse storico dell'Ateneo di Catania
Il presente lavoro espone i risultati del progetto di ricerca, svolto nel triennio 2022-2025, incentrato sulla catalogazione e la valorizzazione degli strumenti scientifici conservati nei musei e nelle collezioni afferenti al Sistema Museale d’Ateneo (SiMuA) dell’Università di Catania. Accanto …