Curare l'Arte Pubblica negli spazi urbani. Il caso del Festival Without Frontiers a Mantova by Irene Ruzzier

“…The contribution problematizes themes such as the definition of the role of the curator working in urban contexts, its differences compared to the museum curator and the possibility to adopt museum strategies in urban public spaces.…”
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The collector Jindřich Waldes and the curator Jan Hofman: One museum, two approaches by Hrušková, Kateřina

“…Alongside Waldes, the other key figure was art historian, conservationist and museum curator Jan Ješek Hofman, whose work between 1916 and 1919 in many ways achieved the plan to build a collection and research institution. …”
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Reconsidering Manifesta 10: big exhibition project as narrative by Marina Biryukova

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PROFESSOR ZBIGNIEW WAWER, A MUSEUMCURATOR by Antoni Krzysztof Sobczak, Izabela Prokopczuk-Runowska

“…Thepaper presents the profile of a widely known individual in moredetail; he was a researcher focused on revealing the historicaltruth and a museum curator frequently appreciated for hisactivity.…”
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“If He Is Converted”: A New Spanish Featherwork <i>Ecce Homo</i> in Southeastern Africa by Kate E. Holohan

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Dining on Geologic Fish by Vanessa Finney

“… The Australian lungfish was discovered for science by Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft in 1870. He immediately recognized that it was a “living fossil” linking fish and amphibians. …”
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Beyond the historiographical pantheon. Women and the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art after 1945 by Patricia García-Montón González

“…During the 1950s, the sole exception was Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin Museum curator, who attended the Bureau sessions and general assemblies as a secretary. …”
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The composition of usability evaluation in assessing quality of the display case lighting / Siti Norsazlina Haron ... [et al.] by Siti Norsazlina, Haron, Norashikin, Abdul Karim, Afzanizam, Muhammad, Anuar, Talib, Md Yusof, Hamid

“…This usability evaluation is useful to the museum curator, designers and facilities management. The usability evaluation is beneficial in identifying the important usability design issues to be investigated and explored. …”
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The scientist as historian: Paulo Vanzolini and the origins of zoology in Brazil O cientista como historiador: Paulo Vanzolini e as origens da zoologia no Brasil by Francisco Inácio Bastos, Magali Romero Sá

“…Besides his publications as a zoologist and his activities as a former museum curator and policymaker, Vanzolini pursued a long-life career as a musician and contributed to many different fields such as biostatistics, biogeography and the history of science. …”
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Notes on mammals collected on the 1885 Geographical Society of Australasia’s Expedition to New Guinea by Harry E. Parnaby, Peter D. Dwyer, Kristofer M. Helgen

“…Several months after the Expedition returned to Sydney, Australian Museum curator E. P. Ramsay prepared a list of 22 mammal specimens received by the Museum. …”

Give and take? The unexpected benefits of public engagement as an end-in-itself social practice in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study. by Krzysztof Adamczyk, Shantini Paranjothy, Marjorie Johnston

“…Our co-curators worked with us and a museum curator to design a narrative-driven overview of the cohort and its members’ lives. …”
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Satu kajian tentang reka corak tembikar Baba dan Nyonya Pulau Pinang by Choong, Grace Ai May

“…Research methodologies including interviews carried out with artists, antique collectors, descendents of Baba, museum curator and antique dealers. Observation, documentation of images and measurement of the ceramics ware were done in the form of notes, tape recording and photography. …”
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Anatomical and Clinical Perspective of Medial Arm Region Perforators-A Potential Flap for Reconstructive Surgeries by Richa Gupta, Tulika Gupta, Sunil Gaba, Anjali Aggarwal, Kaur Harjeet, Daisy Sahni

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We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 by Kim Bobier

“…The Brooklyn Museum Curated by: Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley Reviewed by: Kim Bobier, doctoral candidate, Art Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…”
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Book Review: Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling by Souyoudzoglou-Haywood and O’Sullivan (eds) by Francesca Tomei

“…As stated in the Introduction (O’Sullivan, Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, pp. 1-4), the workshop had the purpose to connect the important role played in the field of Experimental Archaeology by the Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture of the University College of Dublin with the research carried out in Greece by scholars and museum curators over the last decades.…”
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Interactive effects between cognitive preferences and instructional strategies in museum learning experiences by Alwi, Asmidah

“…Yet, the rising interest in creating online museum environments presents fresh dilemmas for museum curators and their exhibit designers to understand the visitors' numerous differences. …”
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Ritual Object, Funerary Offering, Work of Art by Cecilia Pardo

“…The present essay reflects on this debate in the context of museum curation in the Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru). It presents examples of recent temporary and permanent exhibition displays, focusing on the creation of new narratives and forms of sharing the past, derived from the study of the objects themselves while placing them in a wider context of updated archaeological research. …”
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LETTERS ON BIRCH BARK: HISTORY ANDCONSERVATION OF OBJECTS FROM THE MUSEUMOF REV. JÓZEF JARZĘBOWSKI IN LICHEŃ STARY by Janusz Czop, Marta Winiarczyk, Anita Rossa, Anna Klisińska-Kopacz, Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez, Anna Ryguła, Michał Obarzanowski

“…Artefacts made of and from untypical materialswith the use of sophisticated techniques preserved in museumsconstitute an exceptional challenge to museum curators. Suchis the case of two letters described in the paper, written onbirch bark by someone signed as the female: Janka and Jaśkadispatched to her mother from the Soviet Polovinka Gulag inthe Urals in 1946 and 1947. …”
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Art & Copyright, by Simon Stokes by Tarik Sabry

“…The second limitation is that the book is not, whether intentionally or otherwise, directed at artists, art professionals, museum curators, gallerists and the like, but rather at lawyers who have dealings with such persons. …”
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Surfaces on African sculpture by John Mack

“…Review of: Leonard Kahan, Donna Page, and Pascal James Imperato (eds) in collaboration with Charles Bordogna and Bolaji Campbell with an introduction by Patrick McNaughton, Surfaces: Color, Substances, and Ritual Applications on African Sculpture, Indiana University Press, 2009.The book reviewed here has potential interest to a wide range of readers, whether researchers and academics, museum, curators, conservators or connoisseurs. It examines the perception of surface as an aspect of the indigenous understanding of sculpted objects in sub-Saharan Africa, treating of questions of materials, patination, colouration and use. …”
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