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“Narrative Museums” and Curators’ Rights: The Protection of a Museum Exhibition and Its Scenario under Polish Law
2020
Since at least the 1990s, museums have expanded to cover a variety of societal functions, often enabling inclusive and participatory spaces for critical dialogue about the past and the future, and bridging together various narratives and cultural experiences, contributing to social cohesion and reconciliation. The new functions of museums, involving novel technological forms of display and communication, pose several legal questions concerning the management of such institutions, their resources, and exhibitions, including issues of copyright and other intellectual property rights. While referring to a recent case concerning an alleged infringement of the moral rights of the authors of the …
Performing ethnography and ethnicity : an early documentation of Finnish immigrants in Nordiska museet
2010
This article discusses the first project of the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with immigrants. It was carried out between 1972 and 1990, and it produced material based on interviews, participant observation, photographs and other written and visual sources. The article first examines why and how this extensive research project was carried out and then discusses the documentation project as performance. The project was an early attempt to document the contemporary lives of people through fieldwork, although the original aim of this pioneering project was merely to create and preserve ethnic identity by documenting “authentic” Finnish characteristics. Thus, it is a good example …
Decolonising European minds through Heritage
2019
By analysing three museums exhibition, this article investigates how the history of European colonialism is approached in an attempt to identify potential for decolonising European minds. The case studies consist of a temporary exhibition (2016–2017) concerning German colonialism at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin; the permanent exhibition of the House of European History in Brussels and the permanent exhibition of the Sagres Promontory (Portugal), a heritage site related to the conquest of the Americas. The analysis will focus on three aspects: 1) acknowledgement of connections between colonial histories and their contemporary influences in and for Europe; 2) the role of histor…
Levels of Preservation for Cultural Heritage within an Open-air Museum
2018
In Sibiu, Romania, the Astra National Museum Complex includes an open-air museum with around 300 ethnographic monuments and a collection of almost 30,000 objects on display and in storage.Four cate...
Museums, consumers, and on‐site experiences
2010
PurposeOne conclusion is widely shared by professionals in the cultural sector: consumer motivations have changed and in particular their relations with cultural products and services. This paper seeks to analyze different trends applied to museums in order to improve the understanding of this “new” cultural audience.Design/methodology/approachFor this trend marketing analysis, seven consumer orientations have been identified (without claiming they are at all exhaustive) after an extended review over the shape of contemporary consumer habits. Besides, the authors wanted to know the opinion of the cultural managers. Each consumer orientation has been evaluated by taking a sample of French pr…
Mafalda and museum educators. Strategies for teaching creation from Childhood Visual Culture
2013
Esta investigación aborda desde la cultura visual infantil un problema educativo -como el del diseño creativo de actividades didácticas de materia artística- mediante intersecciones e interacciones con aspectos de género, crítica social y cultural. Desde el marco conceptual se expone el interés y vigencia de Mafalda como personaje de la cultura visual: por su calado internacional, por haberse empleado con fines pedagógicos con anterioridad, por ser precursora de la crítica al sistema educativo, por ser conocido por todos los integrantes del entramado educativo formal e informal, y por tratar transversalmente cuestiones de género. Desde la pedagogía generativa se intenta alterar la práctica …
Empowering women in place. València summer school equals-eu
2023
Los avances hacia la igualdad de género en Europa han sido muy significativos a lo largo del último siglo, sin embargo, aún hay margen de mejora en algunas de las dimensiones clave. La Estrategia de la UE para la Igualdad de Género 2020-2025 aboga por una Europa en la que mujeres y hombres, niñas y niños, sean iguales, en la que las mujeres tengan las mismas oportunidades de participar y prosperar en la sociedad. La UE se ha comprometido a mejorar la inclusión social, económica y política de las mujeres y las niñas. Sin embargo, aún no ha surgido una estrategia concluyente para eliminar la desigualdad de género y remodelar los estereotipos institucionalizados y las prácticas discriminatoria…
Giovanni De Simone: Arte, Memoria e Territorio
2019
The essay analyses Giovanni De Simone's artistic career from the beginning to the last period of his production, contextualising it with the historical-artistic panorama of the period.
The Maltese Workshop of the Gili. From the Commissions for the Knights of Ursulo to the Malta Map of Aloisio
2020
The analysis of the Gili workshop in Valletta between the end of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century is the starting point to investigate the figure of Aloisio,an eclectic and versatile personality working as a goldsmith, cartographer and besides, and his map of Malta (1614)
THE SAN VITO WOODEN PULPIT FROM MUSEO DIOCESANO OF PALERMO, ITALY: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DATING AND RESTORATION
2017
The aim of the present research is to investigate the constitutive materials and the execution techniques of San Vito wooden pulpit from Museo Diocesano of Palermo (Italy) and to provide helpful information to dating it in addition to technical, historical and artistic evaluations. The pulpit, attributed to unknown artist, belongs to the decorative arts and the most relevant feature is its double dating, in addition to the singular painting technique: it has a linear structure typical of XIXth century and three polychrome and gilded panels probably dated to the end of XVIIth century. This paper describes the application of analytical techniques (imaging diagnostics techniques, Scanning Elec…