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Museum Practices (museum + practice)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	100%

Selected Abstracts

A Case for Being Awake: Buddhism, Collaboration, and Museum Practice

CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 3 2006
Marla C. Berns
First page of article [source]

Museum Geography: Exploring Museums, Collections and Museum Practice in the UK

GEOGRAPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 10 2010
Hilary Geoghegan
In the UK alone there are more than 2500 museums of interest to international and home audiences. Despite their prevalence and a strong museological culture in the UK and beyond, the geographic study of museums is relatively under-developed. To date there has been no systematic overview of this field either in the UK or internationally. This review article is intended as a contribution towards an emerging ,museum geography'. Beginning with an exploration of research on museums, collections and museum practice, the author then considers the recent ,spatial turn' in museum studies and discusses how geographers have variously encountered museums, collections and museum practice to date. The article then reviews the potential for the future study of museums by geographers. In so doing, the author suggests that the study of museums offers some exciting opportunities for geographical research and teaching. [source]

Negotiating new visions: An interview with Anthony Shelton by Gustaaf Houtman

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 6 2009
Anthony Shelton
In his interview, Anthony Shelton reflects on his past 25 years working in museums and universities and the changing relationship between anthropology and ethnographic exhibitions and museum practices. Shelton talks about the field of critical museology which he has theorized and set out over many years and which stands as a substantial critique of conventional museum practice, and answers questions about the emergence and potential of new radical approaches to the exhibition of indigenous cultures as exemplified by the UBC Museum of Anthropology's multi-million dollar project, ,A Partnership of Peoples' which is due to open in January of 2010. [source]

Participatory Communication with Social Media

CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2008
Angelina Russo
This marks a shift in how museums publicly communicate their role as custodians of cultural content and so presents debate around an institution's attitude towards cultural authority. It also signifies a new possible direction for museum learning. This article reports on a range of initiatives that demonstrate how participatory communication via social media can be integrated into museum practices. It argues that the social media space presents an ideal opportunity for museums to build online communities of interest around authentic cultural information, and concludes with some recent findings on and recommendations for social media implementation. [source]

Think Globally, Publish Virtually, Act Locally: A U.S.-Saudi International Museum Partnership

CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2005
Paul Michael Taylor
ABSTRACT This paper examines an on-going cooperative project between the National Museum of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, undertaken within the framework of the International Partnership Among Museums (IPAM) program of the American Association of Museums. The project,Written in Stone: Epigraphy from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia,is a virtual Web exhibition of inscriptions dating from the late second millennium B.C. to the nineteenth century AD. It is undoubtedly representative of many special-purpose cooperative projects (for exhibitions, research, or other purposes) that are taking place across international boundaries between pairs or groups of museums in various countries. Such collaborations provide examples of how partner institutions can take advantage of the opportunities that globalization and standardization of museum practices offer. [source]

NAGPRA AT 20: Museum Collections and Reconnections

MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2010
Martha Graham
ABSTRACT Since the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted 20 years ago, the identification and repatriation of cultural items has become essential to museum,tribe relationships. Interactions prompted by repatriation policies and laws impel tribal representatives and museums alike to take a new look at museum collections. Three examples of interactions between Indian tribes and the American Museum of Natural History that were prompted by NAGPRA demonstrate how museum practices are changing. A series of responses by tribal representatives involved in these NAGPRA cases, with specific reference to their reconnections with the material culture in museum collections and museum,tribe relationships, show the ways in which tribal members frame the issues. [source]

Displayed Objects, Indigenous Identities, and Public Pedagogy

ANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2006
Brenda Trofanenko
In this article, I describe how one group of student examines indigenous identity formation as dynamic and open to reinterpretation. Drawing on field observations and interviews with students in a 16-month ethnographic study, I examine how one group of students worked toward understanding how indigenous identity was determined by curatorial authority and historically defined museum practices. I argue that students can question the traditional pedagogical conceptions of indigenous culture that ought to be reconsidered within the public museum, and that working to historicize such conceptions makes more explicit student knowledge production of identity. [source]