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Free admission in museums and monuments : An exploration of some perceptions of the audiences.
2008
This paper considers the theme of the audiences' perceptions of free admission in national French museums and monuments. The results show that, from an individual perspective, perceptions of free admission are linked to perceptions of price, money and payment, hence complementing perceptions expressed in a collective perspective (a symbolic, political measure causing either adhesion or rejection). These perspectives are generally put forward by both advocates and opponents of the measure in their discussions. These different visions of free admission have managerial implications for managers of museums and monuments. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
El proyecto artístico Mujeres Maestras en Perú, Colombia y Ecuador
2017
[EN] Mujeres Maestras (Women Teacher Project) is a tribute to the teachers who bring Art Education to the ArtseBased Research. We propose this inquiry from the involving teachers and students of educational centers. Through this work(in(progress(we manage the future location of exhibitions in museums and art the world. This year the exhibition visits Medellín (Colombia) and Lima (Peru). The next year planned to exhibit in Cuenca (Ecuador). Each exhibition of Mujeres Maestras consists of 21 works made exclusively for the museum or art center in which the show is organized. The graphics and the poetics of the gestures are part homage that the author gives to these women who represent a very i…
A Research Project in Art Education : Aspects of Identity in Chilean Female Teachers
2010
El artículo que presentamos recoge una investigación que se orienta metodológicamente hacia los denominados estudios de caso. Pretendemos generar un acercamiento entre la escuela y los museos mediante la creación artística y el análisis de sus protagonistas. Nos introducimos en una temática de corte social que afecta tanto al mundo de las mujeres y su desarrollo profesional como al entorno educativo en el que se mueven. Nuestro estudio se ha llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Hemos accedido a las opiniones de un grupo de maestras chilenas. Se trata de mujeres que nos transmiten sus experiencias, sus deseos, sus necesidades, y todo aquello en lo que ellas consideraban necesari…
Regional policies for sustainability in the Mediterranean countries: the role of a proper HVAC system maintenance in museums
2013
Italy, like several Mediterranean countries, holds a very large number of cultural artifacts that are often exhibited and saved inside museums. Museums are usually part of historical buildings that, not rarely, originally had a different intended use and that have been currently transformed in place for conservation and for exhibition of works of art. The use of historical buildings as museums leads to limitations in the management and distribution of exhibition space, in design and managing HVAC systems and in the achievement of targets relating to the continuous monitoring of the microclimate for people comfort and for preservation of works of art. Moreover, the costs of the operation and…
The Culture on the Palm of Your Hand: How to Design a User Oriented Mobile App for Museums
2014
The increased usage of mobile apps has a great potential for the tourism industry. Through the use of mobile apps, web portals and social media may allow a fast and wide diffusion of awareness for museum and attract a large number of visitors, thus increasing the value of their image, with moderate investments. The aim of this chapter is to identify the key factors as antecedents of customer satisfaction for the design of a mobile app for a museum. To this aim, the authors use the Kano model that allows categorizing service attributes according to how they are perceived by customers and estimating their impact on customer satisfaction. This model is adopted in order to identify express and …
CiceRobot: a cognitive robot for interactive museum tours
2007
PurposeThe aim of this paper is to integrate perception, action and symbolic knowledge to allow an autonomous robot to operate in unstructured environments and to interact with non‐expert users.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve such goals, a cognitive robot architecture is proposed based on the integration between subsymbolic and linguistic computations through the introduction of an intermediate level of representation based on conceptual spaces.FindingsThe architecture has been tested in the CiceRobot project on tasks related to guided tours in the Archaeological Museum of Agrigento. Experimental results show that robot cognitive behaviors allow one to achieve a full functional roboti…
The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands
2022
Altres ajuts: CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya Altres ajuts: Operational Programme Research, Development and Education Project (CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_027/0008360) Archaeological investigations carried out in the cave Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro, Bagheria, Sicily, revealed the presence of a few skeletal elements of a large-sized tortoise in a funerary area dating to the Copper/Bronze Age. The tortoise has been AMS-dated revealing an age of 12.5 ± 0.5 kyr BP and therefore it pre-dates the funerary activities. The morphology of the retrieved skeletal elements differs from that of the only native tortoise currently living in Sicily, Testudo hermanni. The tortoise's size significantly exc…
Impact of Mediation devices on the Museum Visit Experience and on Visitors' Behavioural Intentions
2012
This study draws on the experiential approach and has two main goals: to explore the different dimensions of the museum experience regardless of whether it is mediated by mediation devices (e.g., audio guides, interactive terminals, SmartPhones, tablets, augmented reality), and to identify the impact of such devices on visitors' behavioural intentions. The authors conduct a qualitative and exploratory investigation to address the following questions: Does the development of such devices affect both experience dimensions and the audience's behavioural intentions? Which components of a museum visit are concerned?
Le rôle des dispositifs numériques de médiation dans la satisfaction des publics de musée d’art
2019
The effects of "self-service technologies" (SST) (Curran and Meuter, 2005) on the value and satisfaction of service experience (Lin and Hsieh, 2007; Mencarelli and Rivière, 2014; Meuter et al., 2003) have been little studied in the arts and culture field. The research explores the effects of the use of a digital mediation device on the museum experience and on the overall satisfaction of the public. The results of the analysis of 916 questionnaires collected from visitors to the Louvre Lens museum show that the use of a digital mediation device during the museum visit experience does not significantly impact overall public satisfaction with the visit.
Gastropod evidence against the Early Triassic Lilliput effect
2010
4 pages; International audience; Size reduction in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event has repeatedly been described for various marine organisms, including gastropods (the Lilliput effect). A Smithian gastropod assemblage from Utah, USA, reveals numerous large-sized specimens of different genera as high as 70 mm, the largest ever reported from the Early Triassic. Other gastropods reported from Serbia and Italy are also as large as 35 mm. Size frequency distributions of the studied assemblages indicate that they were not unusually small when compared with later Mesozoic and modern faunas. The occurrence of large-sized gastropods less than 2 Ma after the Permian-Trias…