scholarly journals Building the field of museum studies in Portugal: the role of publications

Midas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies

THE ROLE OF ION BEAM TECHNIQUES IN MUSEUM STUDIES

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
J. R. Bird
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Museum Studies

scholarly journals MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FINNO-UGRIC STUDIES IN THE USSR (1920s-1930s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-721
Author(s):  
Aleksei Egorovich Zagrebin ◽  
Valerii Engelsovich Sharapov
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Local History ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
National Movements ◽  
History Of

This paper offers a discussion of the role of ethnographic Finno-Ugric studies in Soviet nation building. In particular, it is concerned with the issue of representation of ethnicity/ethnic identity in various fields of museum studies: expeditions, local history, educational work, and exhibition activities. Special attention is paid to the field studies of Moscow and Leningrad ethnographers who participated in the formation of collections of regional museums of local lore and the construction of “authentic” visual images of Finno-Ugric peoples in the Soviet ethnographic portrait of the “family of peoples of the USSR”. One of the key questions is how the ethnographic reality and the transformative perspective of Soviet nation building correlated in the expedition practice. The role of the institute of museums in national movements is emphasized in recent studies of the history of Russian ethnography and the implementation of various ethnographic projects. In the authors’ opinion, ethnographers who conducted expert and scientific research, acted as intermediaries in the dialogue/conflict between local communities and authorities in building a regional national discourse.

scholarly journals Museology and the Icelandic museum field. Collaborations and development

1970 ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
Gudrun Whitehead ◽  
Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
Museum Studies ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Since the birth of the Icelandic museum in the nineteenth century they have played a vital role in the local heritage sector. Starting as expressions of national pride during the independence movement from Denmark, the three central museums, the National Museum of Iceland, The National Gallery of Iceland and the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, have played a vital role in the professional work of museums. They promote collaboration and institutional development, most recently by enabling the establishment of Museology at the University of Iceland. Tracing the history of the museum field, this article seeks to demonstrate the vital role of museums within museology at the University of Iceland. With continued collaboration, museum professionals and the museum studies program can promote positive change in the Icelandic heritage sector.

scholarly journals ‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862094531
Author(s):  
Anna Guasco
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Sixth Mass Extinction ◽  
Textual Approach

This article unites recent writing in extinction studies with work in political ecology, justice theory and museum studies to explore qualitative, cultural approaches to extinction. I examine the role of storytelling and the power of narratives in addressing nonhuman extinction. Analysing the case study of a permanent gallery on extinction, evolution and biodiversity loss – the Survival Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland – I utilise a more-than-textual approach to narrative analysis. This paper explores the diverse ways in which the gallery relates stories of ‘natural’ extinction to the contemporary anthropogenic ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’. The Survival Gallery narrates a remarkably complex compilation of extinction stories, but the gallery’s narrative avoids areas of conflict or controversy, obscures justice concerns and ultimately presents a problematic depiction of a universalised humanity. Using this analysis of museum extinction storytelling, the paper contributes to emerging conceptualisations of multispecies justice frameworks. The article explores the possibilities and challenges of museum storytelling in grappling with complicated pasts and envisioning potential futures of survival, coexistence and flourishing. The paper concludes by considering how a multispecies justice approach to narrating extinction (and other entangled ecological-social phenomena) might flourish within and beyond museums.

nr="59"Professional Museum Translators for Promoting Multilingualism and Accessible Texts: Translation Practices in Some Italian Museums and a Proposal

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-86
Author(s):  
MARINA MANFREDI
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
The City ◽  
Language Pair

Abstract This article examines the role of museum translation in the contemporary world. More specifically, the paper advocates linguistic “accessibility” for museum target texts, focusing on a case study of three Italian museums. Combining a qualitative context-oriented methodology and a theoretical approach, the paper draws on interviews with museum professionals in the city of Bologna, Italy, and puts forward a proposal for a linguistic training of professional museum translators who can tackle the challenge posed by multifunctional texts. The findings suggest that, although translation is recognized by translation-related staff as a crucial activity in the internationalization of museums, translation practices are not systematic. Exploiting interdisciplinary connections between Translation Studies and Systemic Functional Linguistics, interfacing with Museum Studies, the paper argues that an effective, “accessible” and “inclusive” museum text may be produced by a linguistically trained translator who is capable of conveying, in a different language, the “organizational”, “interactional” and “representational” functions (Ravelli 2006) which are interlocked in a museum text. Authentic examples from panels and exhibit labels will be offered, dealing with the Italian-English language pair.

scholarly journals Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: The role of mediators

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Yasukawa ◽  
Jacquie Widin ◽  
Vic Smith ◽  
Karen Rivera ◽  
Michael Van Tiel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
New Literacy Studies ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Museum Experience ◽  
New Museology

Museum exhibitions are literacy rich environments. Visitors may engage with a range of texts including texts that constitute the exhibition objects themselves, those that convey information about the objects and those that instruct visitors about how the visitors are expected by the museum to navigate through the exhibition. The ways in which visitors engage with these diverse texts are important defining factors of the visitors’ museum experience.For museums, understanding how texts in their exhibitions are influencing the museum experience, and the possibility of a museum experience for the broad public community is important in the fulfilment of their public mission as cultural and education institutions. In this paper, we adopt a view of literacy as a social practice, the perspective of New Literacy Studies (NLS), that offers a fruitful way for museums to consider the interactions between exhibition texts and their audiences. Such considerations, we argue, can inform museums’ approaches to broadening their visitor demographics to more strongly fulfill their public mission. We show that the goals of NLS resonate with some of the goals of the New Museology movement in museum studies, a movement that aims to democratize what museums represent and how. From NLS, we employ the concept of a literacy event to describe an exhibition visit through a literacy lens, and the concept of a literacy mediator to examine the literacy event not exclusively as an individual event, but a collectively produced event. The paper draws on data on how the literacy events of two groups of ‘non-traditional’ visitor groups were mediated in an exhibition, and show how they reveal the range of different literacies that visitors need to negotiate in a museum exhibition.

scholarly journals Piazzas or Stadiums

Museum Worlds ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Cultural Turn

Over the last twenty-five years or so there has been a ‘cultural turn’ in urban development strategies. An analysis of the academic literature over this period reveals that the role of new museums in such developments has oft en been viewed reductively as brands of cultural distinction with economic pump priming objectives. Over the same twenty-five year period there has also been what is termed here a ‘libertarian turn’ in museum studies and museology. Counterposing discussions of the museum’s role within urban development with discussions from within the museum studies literature on the ‘post-museum’ reveals the dichotomous nature of these approaches to the museum. This article proposes instead a consideration of the phenomenotechnics of new museum developments. This approach presents a way of taking account of both technical and symbolic conditions and characteristics and in doing so, it is hoped, provides a way of analyzing the ‘realpolitik’ of the role of museums in urban development.

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