Aegean legacies: Greek island embroideries from the Ashmolean Museum by Leoni, F

“…This publication reveals little-known pieces from the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, newly photographed and published here for the first time. …”

Back to nature: geologically informed consolidants for stone museum artefacts by Booth, J

“…<p>The Back to Nature project was developed as a collaborative doctoral award between the British Museum and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. …”

Lazarus in the museum: resurrecting historic specimens through new technology by Sumner-Rooney, L, Sigwart, J

“…These methods are revolutionizing our use of museum collections and reinventing their role in modern morphological research, which comes at a time of increasing threat to collections and museum curation funding. …”

Revisiting a plate in the Ashmolean Museum: a new interpretation by Bergeron, M

“…<br/>Set prominently on display in the ‘Heroes and Myths’ case in the Ashmolean Museum’s Greece gallery, plate AN1934.333 has been published numerous times but almost only ever in passing. …”

'The illusion of an authentic experience': a luster bowl in the Ashmolean Museum by Leoni, F, Norris, D, Domoney, K, Matin, M, Shortland, A

“…In 2014 the Ashmolean Museum conserved and examined one of the largest and most handsome ceramic vessels in its renowned Islamic art collection. …”

This is a local museum, for local natural history specialist groups by Simmons, Z, Jarvis, C

“…<p>With more people taking part in biological recording, surveying, and joining natural history societies than ever, how and why should museums work with these groups? Although there is overlap in interests, these societies often either do not engage with museums or, at worst, have a mistrust of them. …”

The rediscovered Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum in the University Library of Bologna by Gigante, F

“…This article reconstructs, by means of unpublished and newly discovered archival sources, the path of the Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum from their entry into the collection of Ferdinando Cospi up to the present day, and identifies them, for the first time, in a group of manuscripts currently held in the University Library of Bologna. …”

The present taxidermied: Soviet 'common unsaids' in Russian krayevedcheskiy museums by Gavrilova, S

“…<p>This dissertation analyses the current state of the krayevedcheskiy museums network in Russia against the backdrop of the historical development of a (post-) Soviet knowledge production system known as krayevedeniye. …”

The role of museums in bilateral tourist flows: evidence from Italy by Campaniello, N, Richiardi, M

“…To this aim, we use aggregate bilateral data on tourist flows and various data on museums in the twenty Italian regions. To solve the potential endogeneity of the supply of museums, we use three different empirical strategies: we use a fixed effects model controlling for bilateral macro-area dummies, we compute the degree of selection on unobservables relative to observables which would be necessary to drive the result to zero and, finally, we adopt a two-stage least squares approach that uses a measure of historical patronage, the number of noble families, as an instrument for the number of museums. …”

Institutional complexity, stakeholders, and political dynamics: museums for organizational insights by Besharov, M, Burton, MD

“…Museums offer an important research context for organizational scholars. …”

Ancestral halls and ‘modern temples’: museums in postcolonial Hong Kong by Yu, SYJG

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Digital Responses of UK museum exhibitions to the COVID-19 crisis by King, E, Smith, MP, Wilson, PF, Williams, MA

“…The impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on museums and galleries has been paramount, with the sector taking on long-term recovery plans. …”

Problematizing the encyclopedic museum: The Benin bronzes and ivories in historical context by Brodie, N

Provenancing antiquarian museum collections using multi-isotope analysis by Neil, S, Evans, J, Montgomery, J, Schulting, R, Scarre, C

“…Many of the most significant archaeological sites in Europe were excavated by antiquarians over one hundred years ago. Modern museum collections therefore frequently contain human remains that were recovered during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”

Review of: Edwards, Elizabeth: Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums by Warrior, C

Visions of nature: Reviving Ruskin's legacy at the Oxford University Museum by Holmes, J, Smith, P

South American Indian collections in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Williamson, L

The Other Within: Exploring the English Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Gosden, C

Marketing the Sabah Museum in year 2000 / Christopher John Baptist by John Baptist, Christopher

“…Established 27 years ago, the Sabah Museum has become more public oriented today. It is expected that the Sabah museum to be more dynamic in the strategy to turn Sabah into a fully industrialized nation by the year 2020. …”
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Financial management and accountability issues in museums (a case study) by Ahmad, Halimah @ Nasibah, Saad, Natrah, Md Saleh, Md Suhaimi, Ismail, Mohamad Sharofi, Hassan, Nor Laili

“…This case focuses on the problems faced by Lang Buana Museums in its effort to enhance the performance of the Museums and to discharge public accountability.Lang Buana Museums comprise the State Museum, the Alamaya Museum, the State Art Gallery, the State Royal Museum and the Raja Putra Memorial.The data collection process involved face-to-face interviews with the management and staff of the Lang Buana Museums in 2013. …”
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