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Govender, Natasha. "Current State of Collections Management Strategies, Standards and Procedures in the Entomology Department at the Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26289. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26289.

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The Durban Natural Science Museum (DNSM) is located in the city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. Its entomology collection is one of three main collections at the museum. The collection consists of 141,000 dried specimens and encompasses 25 of the 29 known insect orders. Most of the specimens originate from South Africa however there is also a small percentage which has international origins. Collection growth is perpetuated by field collection trips and donations. In the recent past, DNSM was afforded the opportunity, through the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) via the Natural History Collections (NHC) Funding Instrument, to digitise insect type specimens and move the entomology research database from Microsoft Access to the web-based data management system, Specify 7. These developments have improved accessibility to the collection especially by those who do not have direct contact and access to the collection. In preparation for the migration to Specify 7, the specimen data was cleaned and standardised by means of an open source online tool, OpenRefine. The tool enabled the analysis and correction of data using an automated process which allowed for maximum productivity. Henceforth, we will ensure that the errors encountered during the data cleaning process will not be repeated. This will be achieved by training data capturers on correct formatting standards and using pick lists in the new database management system to foster consistency. On-going collections care is a core component of the DNSM, however a collections management policy is lacking and therefore such procedures differ somewhat across the three core departments. With regards to the entomology department, temperature and humidity monitoring efforts and mould prevention, detection and collection recovery occur regularly. Durban is a coastal city, and the characteristic high humidity is of great concern because it facilitates mould development on the specimens. Regular monitoring procedures mitigate such outbreaks. The DNSM has joined South Africa’s newly launched Natural Science Collections Facility (NSCF) which is a network of institutions which maintain zoological, botanical and paleontological collections. The NSCF, in consultation with institution representatives, has initiated the development of a collections management policy document which will be adopted by the DNSM as one of its sub-policies once it has been passed. The Durban Natural Science Museum will continue to strive for international best practises in collections management.
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WANAT, MAREK, and ŞERBAN PROCHEŞ. "Contribution to morphology, biology and distribution of Mecolenus wahlbergi Schoenherr, 1847, a relict African apionine weevil (Coleoptera: Brentidae: Apioninae)." Zootaxa 5067, no. 1 (2021): 40–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5067.1.2.

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Mecolenus wahlbergi Schoenherr, the sole member of the basal apionine tribe Mecolenini and one of the least known South African weevils, was re-discovered at a new locality at Umtamvuna River separating KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces. It was found feeding on leaves of the Broad-leaved Wild-quince Cryptocarya latifolia Sond. (Lauraceae), which is the first record on the biology of this species. The distribution of M. wahlbergi is summarized and mapped, including unpublished records based primarily on the specimens deposited at the Durban Natural Science Museum. Concordance between the distribution of the weevil and its putative host C. latifolia is discussed. The adult morphology of M. wahlbergi is re-described and illustrated.
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Mwelase, Zamawelase. "The Importance of Museum Biomaterial Resources and Specimen Records for the Advancement of Zoological Research in Southern Africa." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 4, 2018): e26350. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26350.

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The Durban Natural Science Museum (DNSM) Mammal Department was established in 1989. The Mammal Department is one of three zoological divisions and is the youngest and the most active collection within the institution. It is considered as one the fastest growing mammal collections in southern Africa and is comprised of 17,200 specimens belonging to ca. 450 species. The collection’s primary focus is small mammals and small mammal research. The collection has amassed five holotypes and 31 paratypes – all of which represent Afrotropical small mammalian taxa described within the past decade. The department generates about 12 – 15 loans per annum, most of which represent biomaterial transfers (following international guidelines and standards). Our collection material and specimen records support approximately 10 peer-reviewed publications on average per annum. The specimen material is accessed by local and international researchers and contributes towards various projects ranging from comparative morphological studies, taxonomic and systematic investigations, DNA-sequence based studies and stable isotope analyses; to mention but a few. The departmental database has recently been migrated from Microsoft Access to Specify 7 software. This upgrade has greatly assisted curatorial and technical staff in managing access to collection material and specimen information, as it has streamlined the amount of administration work associated with such tasks. Staff at the DNSM continue to strive to find innovative technologies and techniques to enable our collection material to be more accessible to a wider audience and to become an internationally-recognized authority on Afrotropical small mammalian biodiversity.
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Mashao, Mmatjie, and David Allan. "Preserving and Optimising a World-Class African Ornithological Collection." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e25705. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25705.

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The Durban Natural Science Museum houses a world-class collection of African bird study skins and other ornithological specimens including eggs, nests, skeletons, open wings and ethanol specimens. This presentation briefly outlines the value of these holdings. The bird study skins comprise the core of the collection and number nearly 40 000. This ranks the collection as one of the top three or four on the continent. These study skins are globally renowned for the quality of their preparation, far exceeding that of other African museums. The study skin collection houses an unparalleled assemblage of holotypes and paratypes of (mainly) southern African subspecies. A recent landmark book on geographical variation in southern African birds was largely based on examination of this collection. The collection also boasts the largest collection of study skins in existence from Mozambique. The collection includes one of the most significant Dodo Raphus cucullatus skeletons in the world, which has been subject to intense investigation in recent years, as well as a complete egg of a Madagascar Elephant bird (Aepyornithidae). Also discussed are ongoing best-practice measures to both preserve this collection and render it of optimal value to users, including a brief summary of the key outside stakeholders exploiting the collection for research and other purposes. An issue of particular note is the increasing demand for tissue samples (typically 'toe-pads') from the study skins for molecular investigations - raising problematic challenges relevant to destructive sampling. Particular attention is paid to describing a recent migration of the digital database to a global standard in the form of the ‘Specify’ collection database and management tool.
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Chalverat, Joseph. "Le pinson du Nord Fringilla montifringilla L.: un visiteur d'exception dans les forêts d'Ajoie durant l'hiver 2001–2002 | The brambling Fringilla montifringilla L.: a rare visitor in the forests of Ajoie in winter 2001/2002." Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 154, no. 11 (2003): 449–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2003.0449.

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In the winter of 2001/2002, over a period lasting 110 days, ten to twelve million bramblings (northern Eurasian finches)sought a place to sleep in the region of Villars-sur-Fontenais in Canton Jura, Switzerland. Suitable resting places in the proximity of access roads enabled a great number of ornithologists to carry out regular and numerous observations that were collected by the author in Jura's Natural Science Museum in Porrentruy. A lot of new information on the behaviour of the bramblings at their places of rest was collected, both during the day, on their return, and was also closely observed and described with regard to weather conditions and the change of season. Information was also collected on the ethology of predators. The special aspect of the article is the visit to the resting places after the departure of the bramblings. Much new knowledge was gained from this. Pseudombrophila stercofringilla,a newly discovered Ascomyzete, was actually found by its discoverer in situ. The effect was detected of uric acid,which turned the ground plants brown and destroyed fir needles from the previous year. It would be a worthwhile subject of scientific inquiry to study the effect of enrichment with fertiliser – manifest on trees and mushrooms. A regional study would make it possible to examine whether the scratching activity of the bramblings, allowing beechnuts to fall on fruitful ground, have a positive effect of regeneration of beech forests in the long term.
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Rademeyer, Robert. "Decoration on the Egyptian Coffin and Mummy in the Durban Natural History Museum." de arte 23, no. 37 (1988): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043389.1988.11761066.

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Garcia-Guinea, J. "Spanish Natural History Museum." Science 283, no. 5400 (1999): 327e—327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.283.5400.327e.

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GREGORY, J. T. "Museum Life: The National Museum of Natural History." Science 232, no. 4753 (1986): 1030–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.232.4753.1030-a.

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Carnall, Mark. "Science Fiction at the Natural History Museum." Configurations 30, no. 3 (2022): 341–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/con.2022.0020.

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Yakovleva, T. G., and S. V. Podgornova. "MUSEUM-PEDAGOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION." Physics in School, no. 4 (2021): 51–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.47639/0130-5522_2021_4_51.

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Evans, Colleen R. "Developing a Collection Digitization Workflow for the Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500042/.

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Natural history collections house immense amounts of data, but the majority of data is only accessible by locating the collection label, which is usually attached to the physical specimen. This method of data retrieval is time consuming and can be very damaging to fragile specimens. Digitizing the collections is the one way to reduce the time and potential damage related to finding the collection objects. The Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum is a natural history museum located at the University of North Texas and contains collections of both vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, as well as plants. This project designed a collection digitization workflow for Elm Fork by working through digitizing the Benjamin B. Harris Herbarium. The collection was cataloged in Specify 6, a database program designed for natural history collection management. By working through one of the museum’s collections, the project was able to identify and address challenges related to digitizing the museum’s holdings in order to create robust workflows. The project also produced a series of documents explaining common processes in Specify and a data management plan.
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Meyer, Morgan B. "Partially connected to science : the Luxembourg Museum of Natural History and its scientific collaborators." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434528.

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Alberti, Samuel John Matthew Mayer. "Field, lab and museum : the practice and place of life science in Yorkshire, 1870-1904." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3512/.

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Later Victorian Yorkshire was home to a vigorous community of life science practitioners. In studying them, I reassess three dichotomies familiar to the contextualist historian of Victorian science: field and laboratory, science and society, and amateur and professional. I outline the refashioning of amateur and professional roles in life science, and I provide a revised historiography for the relationship between amateurs and professionals in this area and era. While exploring these issues, I examine the complex net of cultural and educational institutions where the sites for the practice of life science emerged and existed. Natural history practices shaded imperceptibly into other facets of civic culture. I present natural history as a leisure activity and as a resource utilised by the maturing provincial middle classes, one of a range of cultural activities within a network of voluntary associations. This thesis is arranged by institution: philosophical society, museum, civic college and field club. Each of these corresponds, loosely, to a site for science: respectively, lecture hall, museum, laboratory and field. The traditional `field versus lab' historiography ignores the many and varied sites for life science in this era, and conceals how far field-based natural history endured alongside the laboratory as it emerged as the hegemonic site for life science. I explore these and other issues by using the career of Louis C. Miall (1842-1921) as a narrative thread. Despite his activities as a lecturer, curator, field club president and laboratory biologist, Mall sought to construct a professional identity based solely on the authority of the laboratory, in contrast to that of the amateur naturalist. To take his partisan rhetoric at face value, however, is to ignore the variety and vitality of life science practices in Victorian Yorkshire.
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Lin, Wen-Ling. "Understanding organisational change in museums : an investigation of evolving museum priorities and practices at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41221.

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In this time of rapid political, economic, social and technological change, museums of all kinds face continuous pressures and demands from a variety of stakeholders. These demands are frequently competing (or at least in tension), arising from the different agendas, interests and requirements of diverse stakeholders which, in turn, raise questions around the purposes and priorities of museums. Although many literatures have contributed to the discussion around the museum’s purpose, there remains a lack of in-depth, grounded analysis that explores museums’ structures, processes, and practices and the role of individuals and broader forces for change in the making and reshaping of the organisation. In short, there has been relatively little scholarly attention given to the study of the museum as an ever-changing, dynamic and complex organisation. Drawing on organisational change studies, management theories and museum studies, this thesis seeks to understand the processes that contribute to the reshaping of the museum’s purpose, priorities and practices by staff and other agents through a qualitative investigation of change within a single institution. The aims of the research are to better understand the role of leadership in the process of change and the dynamic attitudes, values and power relations that underpin such processes. In order to explore the hidden complexities of the internal workings in the museum, this paper employs a single case study - the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) in Taiwan – that was investigated through an organisational ethnography approach. This thesis focuses on two main forces for change. One is the increasing influence of market forces that encourage the museum to move towards more business-like practices. The other is a growing appreciation of the social responsibility of the museum. These two predominantly external forces play out in a different ways and, at the same time, emerge as significant factors which influence the museum’s move away from traditional functions and conventional works and practices. By revealing various values, interests and power dynamics intersecting at the organisational and personal levels, the thesis aims to contribute an enhanced understanding of how and why change occurs in museums and how potentially competing interests can be negotiated.
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Tsai, Binghuan. "A museum of nature and science: the shaping of forms." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52126.

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Structures of perfect symmetry, order, and beauty exist in both discoveries of science and objects found in natures. With careful observation and analysis, creative applications of these interesting forms can be and have been applied in many architectural structures with great success. In this project the utilization of these forms can not only bring out the purpose of this Museum of Nature and Science, but because these forms are derived from natural studies, they can also give viewers a sense of familiarity and peacefulness.<br>Master of Architecture
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Yang, Qingshan. "The economic value of museums : a case study of the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398953.

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Chalk, Hannah-Lee. "The uses, meanings, and values of natural objects : university earth science objects and collections as material culture." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-uses-meanings-and-values-of-natural-objects-university-earth-science-objects-and-collections-as-material-culture(805f7b45-6b8b-4399-8e27-934442aa68d2).html.

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As an academic discipline, the earth sciences generate, use, and retain vast quantities of objects. This ‘material archive’ exists, first and foremost, as a functional scientific resource; the objects that it contains were never intended to express culture. Since the earth sciences rely heavily on claims that its objects of study remain the same as they were in nature, it follows that the specimens contained in university earth science collections are treated as objective scientific evidence. In this sense, the material that is collected, used and retained by earth scientists may appear to be devoid of culture – passive, inert and neutral.This thesis sets out to challenge these assumptions by treating university earth science objects and collections as material culture. In material culture studies, geological materials appear in a variety of different forms and contexts, however, such work has tended to focus on either their occurrence in the landscape, or their use as raw materials from which objects are made. Thus, while the earth sciences provide an abundant source of ‘material’ for material culture studies, rarely (if at all) do they seem to provide the culture. Furthermore, while the treatment of ‘natural’ objects as cultural artefacts has become increasingly popular in museology, much of this work has concentrated on the processes and practices that are enacted on these things in museums. Museology has therefore tended to consider these things in what effectively corresponds to their retirement, meaning that with few exceptions, little attention has been paid to their active use as functional scientific objects. This research explores the implications of treating university earth science objects and collections as material culture through the empirical investigation of contemporary object-related practices in UK earth science departments and university museums. As such this thesis addresses questions surrounding the relevance of existing theories and methods, in both material culture studies and museology, for exploring natural scientific objects and collections. These questions are approached through four thematic chapters concerned with the coming into being of earth science objects, their transformation into collection items, their functions, and their mobility.
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Silva, Mauricio Candido da. "Musealização da natureza: exposições em museu de história natural como representação cultural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-27012014-110902/.

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Uma das principais características das exposições museológicas é o seu potencial de representatividade histórico-cultural, sobretudo quando dirigimos nossa atenção aos museus de história natural dos séculos XIX e XX, período de constituição do museu público, impulsionado pelos discursos nacionalistas, civilizatórios e modernizantes. A análise de projetos expositivos desse contexto possibilita inferir que o novo modelo de museu é resultado da busca do equilíbrio entre os estudos científicos desenvolvidos através das coleções de pesquisa e as formas efetivas de instrução pública. Centenas de museus foram construídos enquanto outros reformaram suas áreas técnicas e administrativas, de forma a atender os novos parâmetros estabelecidos pelos programas museológicos, arquitetonicamente definidos como área restrita de pesquisa e área restrita da exposição pública. As exposições museológicas abertas à visitação ganharam impulso a partir de uma perspectiva objetiva. Os recursos comunicacionais, que nasceram e se desenvolveram nestes museus, reforçam o sentido da educação popular a partir da leitura do discurso expositivo presente nas narrativas polissêmicas estabelecidas nos novos espaços de consagração da ciência. O objeto museológico, o espaço museal e o público das exposições formam a base desse fenômeno moderno de comunicação. A modernidade forjada tanto pela Revolução Industrial quanto pela Revolução Francesa gerou este tipo de organização institucional que, por meio da reunião de objetos extraídos do mundo natural, como referências patrimoniais, registros documentais e testemunhos materiais, assumiu a responsabilidade pela conservação, pesquisa e difusão de uma nova visão sobre a natureza, a partir de critérios científicos. A este processo de seleção, de transferência de elementos naturais para o interior dos museus, para composição de coleções e cenários museais didáticos, foi cunhada a ideia de Musealização da Natureza. Essa proposição deve ser entendida pela abrangência do percurso da nova vida do objeto, enfocando as formas de representação do mundo natural por esta tipologia de museu, apresentando em seus sistemas comunicacionais uma natureza compartimentada, classificada e reconhecida. Com o desenvolvimento e aplicação de diferentes recursos expositivos, sobretudo os dioramas, os museus de história natural passaram a preencher as salas expositivas com uma museotecnia nascida na Europa, que ganhou forte e determinante impulso nos Estados Unidos e se difundiu por todo o mundo, inclusive no Brasil. Com a instalação de cenários de ambientes naturais, didaticamente preparados, consolidou-se no museu público uma nova forma de olhar para o mundo natural: uma forma científica. É justamente no limiar da ciência moderna, que os museus de história natural se proliferam e declaradamente passam a se preocupar com a popularização da ciência. Os processos modernos de produção econômica transformaram definitivamente a relação do homem com o mundo natural. Ao mesmo tempo, estabeleceram novas formas de vivência com a natureza, seja através de parques naturais, jardins ou mesmo pelas exposições museológicas com seus dioramas, aqui considerados como verdadeiras janelas para o mundo natural.<br>One of the main characteristics of museum exhibitions is its potential historical and cultural representativeness, especially when we focus our attention on the museums of natural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Those were periods of constitution of the public museum that was driven by nationalistic, civilization and modern speeches. The analysis of exhibition projects in that context makes it possible to infer that the new model of museum is the result of the search for balance between scientific studies developed through the research collections and the effective ways of public instruction. Hundreds of museums were built while others reformed their technical and administrative areas in a way they could attend the new parameters established by the museum programs that were defined as restricted area for research and restricted area for public exhibition. Museum exhibitions opened to visiting won strength based on a focused perspective. Communicational resources that had been born and had developed in those museums reinforced the sense of popular education based on the reading of the exhibition speech that were present in the multifaceted narratives established in the new spaces of consecration of science. The museum object, the museum space and the exhibition\"s public form the basis of this modern phenomenon of communication. The modernity forged by the Industrial Revolution as well as the French Revolution generated this kind of organizational institution that - by the means of reuniting objects extracted from the natural world such as heritage references, document data and material testimonies - have assumed the responsibility for the conservation, research and diffusion of a new vision about the nature based on scientific criteria. To that process of selection and transfer of natural elements to the interior of museums to form didactic museum collection and scenarios was coined the idea of Musealization of Nature. This proposition must be understood by the comprehensiveness of the path of the new life of the object focusing the ways of representing the natural world by this typology of museum and presenting in its communicational systems a compartmentalized, classified and recognized nature. With the development and application of different exhibition resources, especially the dioramas, the natural history museums began to fill the exhibition rooms with a museumtechnique born in Europe that gained strong and determining strength in the United States and had spread all over the world including Brazil. With the installation of scenarios of natural environments that were didactically prepared, a new way of looking to the natural world in the public museum were consolidated: the scientific way. It is precisely on the threshold of modern science that the museums of natural history proliferate and reportedly began to worry about the popularization of science. The modern process of economic production definitely transformed the relationship between man and natural world. At the same time thei established new ways of living the nature whether through natural parks or gardens or even through museum exhibitions with its dioramas that we consider in this research as are true windows to the natural world.
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Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin. "Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10557.

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This dissertation examines how the modern dinosaur—fully mounted, freestanding assemblages of vertebrate fossils such as we are accustomed to seeing at the natural history museum—came into being during the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing especially on the United States. But it is not just, or even primarily a history of vertebrate paleontology. Rather, I use dinosaurs as an opportunity to explore how science was embedded in broader changes that were happening at the time. In particular, I am interested in tracing how the culture of modern capitalism—the ideals, norms, and practices that governed matters of value and exchange—manifested itself in the way fossils were collected, studied, and put on display. During the second half of the 19th century, America experienced an extended period of remarkable economic growth. By the eve of WWI, it had emerged as the world’s largest producer of goods and services. At the same time, paleontologists were unearthing the fossil remains of marvelous creatures the likes of which no one had ever dreamed in the American west. The discovery of dinosaurs like Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Triceratops prompted the nation’s wealthy elite to begin cultivating an intense interest in vertebrate paleontology. In part, this is because dinosaurs meshed well with a conventional narrative that celebrated American exceptionalism. Dinosaurs from the United States were widely heralded as having been larger, fiercer, and more abundant than their European counterparts. Not only that, but their origins in the deep past meant that dinosaurs were associated with evolutionary theory, including the conventional notion that struggle was at the root of progress. Finally, it did not hurt that America’s best fossils hailed from places like Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. This is precisely where most of the raw materials consumed by factories could also be found. As they coalesced into a coherent social class, American capitalists began to patronize a number of elite cultural institutions. Just as Gilded Age entrepreneurs invested considerable resources in the acquisition of artworks, so too did they invest in natural history. However, whereas the acquisition of artworks functioned as a display of refined aesthetic sensibilities, the collection of natural history specimens primarily represented another form of social distinction, one that combined epistemic virtues like objectivity with older notions of good stewardship and civic munificence. Capitalists who had grown rich off of the exploitation of America’s natural resources turned to dinosaur paleontology as a form of cultural resource extraction.<br>History of Science
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Hansson, Elisabeth. "Meningsskapande i utställningen : En komparativ etnografisk fallstudie av förskolegruppers multimodala kommunikation vid ett Naturhistoriskt museum och ett Science center." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-132979.

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Som övergripande syfte vill denna studie undersöka hur två förskolegrupper kan meningsskapa i två olika utställningar genom att beskriva, analysera och jämföra dessa två förskolegruppers multimodala kommunikation vid utställningsbesök. Genom syftet vill denna studie ge ökad kunskap om multimodal kommunikation hos två förskolegrupper i två olika utställningar. I syftet ingår att studien önskar öka kunskapen om hur semiotiska resurser kan användas och vad som fokuseras genom språkbruk, som kommunikativa villkor för lärande i utställningar. Studien har en design av en komparativ etnografisk fallstudie. Videoinspelningar, MP-3 ljudinspelningar, deltagande observation och fältanteckningar har använts som instrument för datainsamling. Genom strategiska urval valdes 11 stycken treåriga förskolebarn och tre pedagoger för att besöka en utställning vid Naturhistoriska Museet och nio femåriga förskolebarn med två pedagoger for att besöka en utställning vid Tom Tits Experiment (science center). Det insamlade materialet transkriberades multimodalt och kunde därefter analyseras som text. Multimodal interaktionsanalys (Norris 2004, 2014) och ett språkbruksraster (Rostvall &amp; West 2001) användes för analys. Resultatet visade markanta skillnader mellan utställningarna. Av den multimodala interaktionsanalysen visade utställningen vid ett science center en bredare användning av semiotiska resurser, då alla artefakters meningserbjudanden var både visuella och taktila, en del artefakter erbjöd även auditiva meningserbjudanden. Språkbruket i samma utställning var mycket varierat och barnen anmodade varandra. Slutsatsen blir av detta att förskolegruppernas a) meningsskapande villkoras av språkbruk och att b) om meningsskapandet ska ske i samarbete ökas den möjligheten dess mer symmetriska de sociala relationerna är.
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Books on the topic "Durban Natural Science Museum"

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Quickelberge, Clive. Collections & recollections: The Durban Natural History Museum, 1887-1987. Durban Natural History Museum, 1987.

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Science, Houston Museum of Natural. Houston Museum of Natural Science guide. The Museum, 1999.

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C, Milner Angela, and Natural History Museum (London, England), eds. The Natural History Museum book of dinosaurs. Carlton, 2001.

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Gardom, Tim. The Natural History Museum book of dinosaurs. Virgin Books, 1993.

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Waiser, W. A. The field naturalist: John Macoun, the Geological Survey, and natural science. University of Toronto Press, 1989.

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Gunther, Albert Edward. Matthew Maty MD, FRS (1718-76) and science at the foundation of the British Museum, 1753-80. British Museum (Natural History), 1987.

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Anthropology unmasked: Museums, science, and politics in New York city. Orange Frazer Press, 2011.

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Houston Museum of Natural Science. Masterpieces of the mineral world: Treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston Museum of Natural Science, 2004.

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Duckworth, W. Donald. Preserving natural science collections: Chronicle of our environmental heritage. National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property, 1993.

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Goodyear, George F. Society and museum: A history of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 1861-1993 and the Buffalo Museum of Science, 1928-1993. The Society, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Durban Natural Science Museum"

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Patrick, Patricia G., and Alexandra Moormann. "Family Interactions with Biodiversity in a Natural History Museum." In Contributions from Science Education Research. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74266-9_5.

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Golitko, Mark, Nicola Sharratt, and Patrick Ryan Williams. "Open-Cell Ablation of Killke and Inka Pottery from the Cuzco Area: Museum Collections as Repositories of Provenience Information." In Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49894-1_3.

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Hutchings, Pat. "Foundations of Australian science, Sydney's natural history legacy, and the place of the Australian Museum." In The Natural History of Sydney. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/fs.2010.009.

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Fontani, Marco, Mary Virginia Orna, and Mariagrazia Costa. "Natural Scientists from the Last of the Medici (1694) to the Period of the Museum of Physics and Natural History (1775–1807)." In SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30856-2_2.

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Piqueras, Jesús, Karim Hamza, and Susanna Edvall. "Learning Science Through Encounters with Museum Dioramas Themes and Patterns in Students’ Conversations." In Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00175-9_13.

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Hernández-Ibáñez, Luis A., Viviana Barneche-Naya, and Rocío Mihura-López. "Natural Interaction and Movement Paradigms. A Comparison of Usability for a Kinect Enabled Museum Installation." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39483-1_14.

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Rupke, Nicolaas A. "The Road to Albertopolis: Richard Owen (1804–92) and the Founding of the British Museum of Natural History." In Science, Politics and the Public Good. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09514-8_4.

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Stranahan, Patricia (Pam) Wheat, Dorothy Lippert, Dirk Van Tuerenhout, and Elisa Phelps. "New Ways of Looking at the Past: Archaeological Education at the Houston Museum of Natural Science." In Past Meets Present. Springer New York, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48216-3_8.

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Piqueras, Jesús, Per-Olof Wickman, and Karim M. Hamza. "Student Teachers’ Moment-to-Moment Reasoning and the Development of Discursive Themes – an Analysis of Practical Epistemologies in a Natural History Museum Exhibit." In Understanding Interactions at Science Centers and Museums. SensePublishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-725-7_6.

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Herruzo, Ana, and Nikita Pashenkov. "Collection to Creation: Playfully Interpreting the Classics with Contemporary Tools." In Proceedings of the 2020 DigitalFUTURES. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4400-6_19.

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AbstractThis paper details an experimental project developed in an academic and pedagogical environment, aiming to bring together visual arts and computer science coursework in the creation of an interactive installation for a live event at The J. Paul Getty Museum. The result incorporates interactive visuals based on the user’s movements and facial expressions, accompanied by synthetic texts generated using machine learning algorithms trained on the museum’s art collection. Special focus is paid to how advances in computing such as Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing can contribute to deeper engagement with users and add new layers of interactivity.
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Potyrala, Katarzyna, Karolina Czerwiec, and Renata Stasko. "NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS AS A SPACE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION IN THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY." In Proceedings of the 2nd International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2017). Scientia Socialis Ltd., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/balticste/2017.99.

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The museum activity is more and more often aimed at integration with local communities, organization of scientific debates and intercultural dialogue, expansion of social network and framework for communication and mediation of scientific issues. Museums generate learning potential and create a social culture. The aim of the research was to diagnose the viability of natural history museums as the spaces of open training and increasing social participation in education for balanced development. Furthermore, it examined the possibility to create a strong interaction between schools at all levels and institutions of informal education, exchange of experience in the field of educational projects and the development of cooperation principles to strengthen the university-school-natural history museum relations. In the research conducted in the years 2016-2017 participated 110 students of teaching specialization in various fields of studies. The results of the research are connected with students’ attitudes towards new role of museums as institutions popularizing knowledge and sharing knowledge. The outcomes enable the diagnosis in terms of preparing young people to pursue participatory activities for the local community and may be the starting point for the development of proposals of educational solutions increasing students’ awareness in the field of natural history museums’ educational potential. Keywords: knowledge-based society, natural history museum, science education.
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Johnson, Kirk. "DIGITIZATION OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE." In GSA Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA - 2017. Geological Society of America, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-305484.

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Pyatina, E. V., and M. А. Bulgakova. "THE USE OF LIVE INVERTEBRATES IN THE COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM." In V International Scientific Conference CONCEPTUAL AND APPLIED ASPECTS OF INVERTEBRATE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND BIOLOGICAL EDUCATION. Tomsk State University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/978-5-94621-931-0-2020-52.

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Sabodina, Evgeniya Petrovna, and Yuriу Sergeevich Melnikov. "Tradition and innovation in higher education in the conditions of the natural science museum." In Сollection of articles. Publishing house Sreda, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-33179.

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Hunt, A. P., S. G. Lucas, and J. A. Spielman. "New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and vertebrate coprolite record from New Mexico." In 2011 New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting. New Mexico Geological Society, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.56577/sm-2011.596.

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Haynes, Laura. "STUDENT EXHIBIT DESIGN IN AN ON-CAMPUS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATES IN REFLECTIVE SCIENCE COMMUNICATION." In Northeastern Section - 57th Annual Meeting - 2022. Geological Society of America, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2022ne-375143.

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Cantrell, Amanda Kaye, and Spencer Lucas. "Type Specimens of Fossil Vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Paleontology Collection." In 2016 New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting. New Mexico Geological Society, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.56577/sm-2016.453.

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Furst, Stephen J., Bryan Peele, and Stefan Seelecke. "Design and Fabrication of an SMA Actuated Bat." In ASME 2012 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/smasis2012-8198.

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Shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator wires provide a natural analog for biological muscles. Additionally, SMA wires are lightweight and have an extremely high energy density, making them desirable for aerospace applications. Therefore, it is natural to consider implementing SMA actuator wires in a flapping flight platform based on the biology of an animal, such as a bat. This work focuses on the design and fabrication of a bat with SMA-actuated elbow and shoulder joints configured to mimic the flapping pattern of a bat. The joints themselves are made from super-elastic SMA ribbons that can bend through large angles and constrain the rotation of each joint to a single degree of freedom. The design process involves careful consideration of the SMA wire placement and joint geometry such that the desired joint rotation is induced without exposing either the super-elastic joint material or actuator wires to excessive stresses. A simplified bending and force model is used to estimate the bending and stresses, and an optimization algorithm is employed to maximize bending without exceeding stress limits. Fabrication involves carefully attaching the small, 75 μm diameter, actuator wires such that they can be guided through the natural curves of the bat’s body, and their pre-strain can be tuned after assembly. The heating power input waveforms are shaped by a custom-built power control devise for multi-functional SMA wires such that the flapping motion mimics that of the natural flyer. The prototype has been tested to 100,000 cycles and installed in an exhibit at the Raleigh Museum of Natural Science as an example of how technology often finds inspiration from nature.
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Ito, Mizuho, Fusako Kusunoki, Shigenori Inagaki, and Keiji Matsuoka. "MANGA METHOD FOR SUPPORTING EXPLANATION OF EXHIBIT IN SCIENCE MUSEUMS: A CASE STUDY OF THE TOYOHASHI MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY." In 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2020.0423.

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Aubele, Jayne C., and Larry S. Crumpler. "IT’S LIKE MARS: USING PLANETARY ANALOGS TO TEACH PLACE-BASED GEOSCIENCE AT THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCE." In GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA - 2016. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016am-286806.

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Matos Fernandes, Teresa, Joana Tinoco, Paulo Farinha Marques, and Iúri Frias. Application for the recognition of Botanical Garden of Porto - Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto as International Camellia Garden of Execellence. University of Porto, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/10216_140253.

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