Search results for "museum"

Silk Road Museums: Design of Inclusive Heritage and Cross-Cultural Education

2021

This work is the result of a study on the characteristics that define some of the museums created on the Silk Road. The approach to these museums has focused especially on the observation of the educational and heritage aspects that define these institutions. Since 1988, numerous actions related to the Silk Road have been promoted by UNESCO. This old trade route has now become a route of dialogue between cultures. Each museum studied is characterized by promoting local and national issues that define it. Educational issues stand out, since the tradition of silk production is very important in each place. Another aspect observed is that heritage issues manage to strengthen the characteristic…

Jumalan kunniaksi ja ihmisten hyväksi : lääkäri, luonnontieteilijä ja keräilijä Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) British Museumin perustajana

1999

L’évolution de la structure de financement des organisations muséales : éclairage sur le rôle des endowment funds

2011

Rompant avec une longue tradition de financement public, certaines grandes institutions muséales européennes voient la part de leur financement privé augmenter considérablement. Cette évolution s’accompagne de la possibilité d’investir cet argent sur les marchés financiers à travers des endowment funds. L’objectif de cet article est de proposer un éclairage sur ce nouveau moyen offert aux musées de gérer leur capital financier. Pour se faire, nous examinerons le système muséal américain où les endowments sont la règle. Cette analyse nous permettra de comprendre ce que recouvre cette notion, d’appréhender ses modalités de mise en oeuvre et de saisir les bénéfices et les risques auxquels les …

A museum system of design/craft for sustainable development in southern Italy

2018

Abstract: In this extended abstract we are going to explain an academic project entitled “THE SYSTEM OF TERRITORIAL DESIGN SYSTEMS. Cultural tourism, craftsmanship and design for the local development of the production enterprises of excellence in Southern Italy and Made in Italy”. It is based on the cooperation among designers and artisans in order to encourage the development of local craft- based production, by creating a REGIONAL MUSEUM SYSTEM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ARTS in the five regions of Southern Italy. Then, the “SYSTEM OF THE SYSTEMS” is constituted of the five specific museum systems to be created in each region; these systems - especially in Campania and Sicily – can then repre…

Soviet-American Art Exchanges during the Thaw: from Bold Openings to Hasty Retreats

2013

[Introduction] East-West artistic connections during the Cold War were a complex range of phenomena including the circulation of works of art, travelling by art professionals, the exchange of practices and the adoption of art currents from the other side of the Iron Curtain. The Cold War has also been said to have influenced the arts and artistic processes in a number of ways. Yet, art has always shunned political borders, wavering between the guidance of individual and governmental patrons, and borderless expression. This chapter discusses an attempt at an extensive exchange of exhibitions between the Soviet Union and the United States around the late 1950s that involved New York’s Museum …

Dynamics in the Field of Museums: Contemporary Challenges for Polish Museologists

2018

The aim of this text is to present and analyze the attitudes of Polish museologists towards the changes currently taking place in the field of museums. More specifically, it will focus on their opinions regarding the evolution of museums—from the traditional model, based on symbolic violence, to the contemporary model, which accents the subjectivity of the audience. Its conclusions, based on analyses of 26 qualitative interviews with employees of Polish museums, are as follows: the organizational changes taking place in Polish museums do not relieve museologists from bureaucratic work; the collections in museums distinguish them from other institutions of culture; there is a struggle …

Mittel- und nordeuropäische Weberknechte aus dem Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt (Arachnida: Opiliones)

2005

Central and North European harvestmen from the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt (Arachnida: Opiliones). About 1100 individuals belonging to 32 opilionid species (300 series), mainly of German origin, were identified based on material provided by, and stored at, the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (Main). A list of all species with habitat information is included. Comments on two remarkable species (Oligolophus hanseni, Odiellus spinosus) are given. The comments include the importance of some series as reference material from MARTENS (1978), additions to regional faunas and the expansion of the known distribution of some thermophilous species.

Un sistema de indicadores para el seguimiento y evaluación de la gestión sostenible del patrimonio cultural

2013

This paper describes the general procedure followed to build a system of indicators for monitoring and evaluating the Strategy for Culture and Development of Spanish Cooperation. Taking the Sustainable Management of Cultural Heritage as a reference, in this study an approach is made to questions relative to: 1) the process of evaluating a list of indicators by a panel of experts using the Delphi technique, 2) the definition and calculation of a relative operational index, 3) the process of indicator selection, and lastly, 4) how the selected indicators were assigned to form part of the basic or strategic dimension on which the system is structured. En este trabajo se describe el procedimie…

The Illegible Doctor’s Writing as a Visual Artifact and Creative Stimulation for Art Education

2014

El presente artículo analiza las posibilidades educativas de la particular escritura de los médicos, estudiando la componente gráfica de sus documentos, tanto históricos como recientes. Defendemos la escritura manual como un elemento gráfico importante para la educación artística, a partir de las premisas de la cultura visual. Nos basamos en los resultados positivos de la exposición “Caligrafías de la enfermedad. Letra de médico”, una muestra en la que los visitantes son protagonistas, intérpretes y constructores de significados. Utilizamos la metodología de los estudios de caso, incorporando la observación directa de varios grupos de visitantes. También aportamos otros datos de la experien…

Attitudes and perceptions of faculty members in the process adopting innovation: The OpenCourseWare initiative at the University of Valencia, Spain

2014

The OpenCourseWare project, an open learning resource repository, was established at the University of Valencia between 2008 and2009. It initially consisted of only 10 subjects, none of which was in the field of Health Sciences. The objective of this research was toinvestigate the attitudes and perceptions of faculty members in the field of Health Sciences with regard to the project to identify strategies to increase its use and expand its coverage. We applied Rogers’ innovation-diffusion theory along with a qualitative approach using theoretical sampling, semi-structured interviews and open coding. The results indicate the existence of two categories of faculty members. In the first group,…