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University Museums (university + museum)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences100%

Selected Abstracts

Exploring Issues of Importance to the Local Community through the University Museum The Exhibition Facing HIV/AIDS: Reality and Response

MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2001
Professor Tamara L. Bray
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Artistic heritage and the return of masterpieces

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2009
Louis Godart
This article was written on the occasion of the exhibition Nostoi: Rediscovered Masterpieces, which was held in the Quirinale Palace. For the first time the public was able to view sixty-seven masterpieces returned to Italy by four great American museums: the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Princeton University Museum. The exhibition, formally inaugurated by the President of the Republic and the Minister for Culture on 21 December 2007, was an unprecedented success; so much so that its duration was extended. All the works shown were the result of clandestine excavations carried out on sites in Magna Graecia, Etruria, Latium, Campania and Sicily. They cover around 900 years of Italian history, from the ninth century B.C. to the second century A.D. They reveal the widespread nature of an extremely worrying phenomenon as regards the safeguarding of the country's artistic heritage. According to State Prosecutor Ferri, between 1970 and 2000 around 2,500 people were investigated for taking part in the plundering of important archaeological sites in Italy. [source]

University museums and collections

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2000
Peter Stanbury
Peter Stanbury has worked with university museums and historic houses for most of his career. In 1992 he was one of the co-founders of the Australia-wide association of university museums, CAUMAC , the Council of Australian University Museums and Collections. In 1998 he proposed the formation of an international university museums group at ICOM in Melbourne. He currently advises the vice-chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney, on museums, collections and heritage, and is executive officer of the Museums and Collections Standing Committee of the New South Wales Vice-Chancellors' Committee. [source]

Educating the muses: university collections and museums in the Philippines

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2000
Ana P. Labrador
,This is a period of reckoning for old and new museums in the Philippines in general and the university museums in particular.' With this in mind, Ana P. Labrador describes the growth and the renewed importance of university museums that characterize the Philippines today. The author is assistant professor of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She is a specialist in museum studies and the theory and aesthetics of non-Western art. She has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in England, focusing on museology and material culture, and has recently published articles in Humanities Research, ArtAsia Pacific Journal and Cambridge Anthropology. [source]

University museums and collections

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2000
Peter Stanbury
Peter Stanbury has worked with university museums and historic houses for most of his career. In 1992 he was one of the co-founders of the Australia-wide association of university museums, CAUMAC , the Council of Australian University Museums and Collections. In 1998 he proposed the formation of an international university museums group at ICOM in Melbourne. He currently advises the vice-chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney, on museums, collections and heritage, and is executive officer of the Museums and Collections Standing Committee of the New South Wales Vice-Chancellors' Committee. [source]

The loneliness of the university museum curator

MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 2 2000
Jane Weeks
Doubly isolated , from their colleagues within the university and from those in the larger museum community , university museum curators are learning to develop new approaches and missions for their institutions. Jane Weeks, a museum consultant specializing in museums in non-museum organizations, describes how this is being done in the United Kingdom. She has considerable experience of university museums, having managed a major Collections Management Project for University College London, and undertaken two regional surveys of university museums and collections in the south-west and the midlands of England, in conjunction with Kate Arnold-Forster. [source]