Science Museums
Museum Politics
Each year the more than seven thousand museums in the United States attract more attendees than either movies or sports. Yet until recently, museums have escaped serious political analysis.
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Museum Ethics
Museum Ethics considers the theoretical and practical elements of ethical behaviour in relation to critical contemporary issues in museums.
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Recoding the Museum
Why has it taken so long to make computers work for the museum sector?And why are museums still having some of the same conversations about digital technology that they began back in the late 1960s?
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Museum Provision and Professionalism
Museums are public places where objects, images and memories are kept and shared. They exist in infinite variety and contradiction, and are anything that the political climate and the imagination allows them to be.
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Museum Security And Protection
Security is a major problem faced by museums of all sizes, from the smallest to the greatest. Protection from theft and intrusion, protection from fire, pretecting of the collections from damage and decay are major concerns.
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Epistemology and Inference
Best known for the distinctive style of his dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History adn other museums, Francis Lee Jaques was also a painter and illustrator whose elegant black-and-white drawings appeared in over 30 books about wildlife adn nature.
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