Journal articles: 'Durban Natural Science Museum'

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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 (November 9, 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 (November 1, 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 (April 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 (January 15, 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 (May 23, 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 (June 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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LIVEROVSKAYA, Tatyana, and Marina PIKULENKO. "SCIENCE AND SOCIETY INTERACTION IN NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUMS IN USA." LIFE OF THE EARTH 42, no. 4 (November 25, 2020): 451–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m1774.0514-7468.2020_42_4/451-464.

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Currently, modern museums activity has not only common trends but features connected with national, social and state development. Using the example of the two oldest museums in Texas and Colorado (Museum of Natural Sciences in Houston, Texas, Museum of Natural History of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado), the authors analyze the characteristic features of USA natural science museums formation as cultural and educational centers. The development of the American museum concept as a multifaceted processes of interaction integrator between scientific organizations with the widest segments of the population is also analyzed. The results of the museums work are summarized, features of their activity and emergence are emphasized. It allows Russian museum workers to adapt and apply the foreign experience under domestic conditions.

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Hancharick, Koral. "Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science." California History 96, no. 1 (2019): 56–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.1.56.

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Pennisi, E. "SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: Director of Natural History Museum Quits." Science 292, no. 5523 (June 8, 2001): 1817b—1817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.292.5523.1817b.

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Bezděčková, Klára, Pavel Bezděčka, Ján Macek, and Igor Malenovský. "Catalogue of type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in Czech museums." Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57, no. 1 (2017): 295–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aemnp-2017-0076.

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Type specimens of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) deposited in natural history museum collections in the Czech Republic are catalogued. Altogether, we list types of 19 extant taxa housed in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague; the Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Brno; the Department of Natural History, Museum of the Highlands, Jihlava; and the Department of Natural History, Silesian Museum, Opava.

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Anderson, Debbie. "‘Dig It!’ Exhibit Visits North Carolina Natural Science Museum." Soil Horizons 56, no. 4 (2015): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sh2015-56-4-rc.

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Larson, Bill. "Dreher Masterworks at the Houston Museum of Natural Science." Journal of Gemmology 38, no. 3 (2022): 292–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15506/jog.2022.38.3.292.

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Sharpe, T., S. R. Howe, and C. Howells. "Setting the standard? The Earth Science Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London." Geological Curator 6, no. 10 (December 1998): 395–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc483.

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The second phase of the new Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum (NHM) was opened in July 1998, marking the complete re-display of the former Geological Museum at a cost in excess of 12 million. The Geological Museum had pioneered a new style of geology display in the early 1970s, and set a standard emulated by other national and local museums. While the Geological Museum exhibitions contained a wealth of specimens, those produced at about the same time by the NHM were often criticised for their lack of real objects. The Geological Museum passed to the control of the NHM in 1985 and is now known as the Earth Galleries. The new displays in the Earth Galleries are the latest product of the NHM's exhibition philosophy, and despite some shortcomings, do represent a new standard for the display of geological material.

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Balzhitova, Olga Mikhailovna. "MUSEUM PROJECT ACTIVITIES AS A WAY OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTRE OF THE SAIC RB «NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF BURYATIA»)." Вестник Восточно-Сибирского государственного института культуры 152 (December 29, 2022): 141–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31443/2541-8874-2022-4-24-141-148.

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At present the Museum of Natural Science is a cultural institu-tion not only carrying out its activities in the field of storing, studying and exhibiting museum objects of cultural and natural heritage, but al-so actively introducing new ways and methods of environmental edu-cation in its cultural and educational activities of the museum visitors. One of such methods is the project activity. The author considers the project activities in the museum as one of the ways of eco-education of different visitors, including people with disabilities on the example of the Natural Science Center of the SAIC RB «National Museum of the Republic of Buryatia».

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Prysiazhniuk, O. "Origins and Formation of the German Museum of Outstanding Achievements in Natural Science and Technology." Problems of World History, no. 14 (June 10, 2021): 179–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.46869/2707-6776-2021-14-8.

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The German Museum of Outstanding Achievements in Natural Science and Technology in Munich was founded in 1903. For three years its founder electrical engineer Oskar von Miller collected an extensive collection of historical and technical exhibits, and in 1906 the museum was opened to the public. The German Museum in Munich demonstrated for the first time that not only artists, but also technicians created masterpieces, not only philosophers, but also inventors had ingenious ideas, not only medieval objects, but also modern technology is a relic. O. von Miller formulated the most important motives and goals of the museum as follows: documentation of the role of technology for the development of society and culture; the implementation of an educational function in the presentation of technology, the achievement of a national status. The didactic principles of organizing exhibitions in the museum served to popularize natural science laws, to visually demonstrate the functional application of technical inventions. The presentation of technical objects was qualitatively different from the exhibition principles of other technical museums. Demonstration of old technologies and historical machines in action was already the norm in museum work. O. von Miller set the task of the museum to explain the technology of manufacturing technical products, such as watches, fabrics, and so on, for which fragments of workshops and factories were reproduced in exhibitions. For the first time in a technical museum, in addition to the traditional chronological display of technical inventions, the principle of operation of machines and apparatus was explained by means of experiments conducted with exhibits by visitors and museum staff. This function was extremely new for the technical museum and was nevertheless carried out mainly by the public, mainly students and young people.

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Monaghan, N. T. "Leopold McClintock - 'Arctic Fox' and his natural science collections." Geological Curator 9, no. 2 (December 2009): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc211.

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Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock from Dundalk, Co. Louth gained fame and rank through his exploits in the Royal Navy during expeditions inside the Arctic Circle in Northern Canada in search of the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. During voyages in the 1840s and 1850s McClintock perfected sledging techniques that allowed for long trips, far from the safety of the ship. He collected geological 'waistcoat pocket' sized specimens and helped to produce one of the first bedrock maps of the area around the Northwest Passage. McClintock's fossils were described by Samuel Haughton and Oswald Heer. They included Tertiary plants that show a warm polar region before the ice cap developed and Jurassic ammonites that caused a stir in the 1860s with the suggestion of warmer waters at the poles in the past. McClintock brought his collections back to the Royal Dublin Society museum where they now form part of the National Museum of Ireland collections. In addition to geological specimens, he brought a polar bear and two musk oxen that have been on exhibition longer that the current museum building has been in existence. For over 150 years McClintock has been famous as the man who put the bullet hole in the polar bear seen by generations of Irish visitors to the 'dead zoo'.

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Maran-Stevanović, Aleksandra. "Natural history museum: A journey through time and space." Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, no. 13 (2020): 7–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/bnhmb2013007m.

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The occasion of a great jubilee - 125 years since the founding of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade - merits highlighting certain historical circumstances, important events and personalities, as well as significant research and activities from the first 80 years of its existence. The fact that this paper will not be covering the modern period of the Museum is a consequence of the author's desire to have that time period reviewed and interpreted by other researchers - those who are still active witnesses. Extensive archive materials and the photo library of the Museum were used in the process of preparation, together with the reports on the work of the Museum, documents from the personal legacy of the first director Petar Pavlovic, and memoirs of antecedent museologists Petar Stevanovic and Sergei Matveyev.

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MACGREGOR, ARTHUR, and ABIGAIL HEADON. "Re-inventing the Ashmolean. Natural history and natural theology at Oxford in the 1820s to 1850s." Archives of Natural History 27, no. 3 (October 2000): 369–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2000.27.3.369.

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During the period of the successive keeperships of John Shute Duncan (1823–1829) and his brother Philip Bury Duncan (1829–1854), the collections of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford were comprehensively redisplayed as a physical exposition of the doctrines of natural theology, specifically as propounded by William Paley. The displays assembled by the Duncans, overwhelmingly dominated by natural history specimens, were swept away with the opening of the University's new Natural Science Museum and with them went almost all recollection of an extraordinary chapter in museum history. From largely unpublished records in the Ashmolean, the Duncans' achievement is here reconstructed. The primary evidence is provided by contemporary reports prepared for the Visitors of the Museum and by surviving texts from the Duncans' museum labels. Additional perspectives are provided by an extensive body of correspondence from the collectors, explorers and others who contributed specimens to the new displays: their texts illuminate aspects of contemporary preoccupations with classification, broader research priorities, and problems associated with collecting, preserving and transporting specimens, as well as shedding light on individual exhibits which they contributed to the Museum. These correspondents include a number of significant figures in the nineteenth century history of natural history, including Andrew Bloxam, N. A. Vigors and William Burchell.

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Costa, E., and L. M. Gallo. "The Meteorite Collection in the Natural Science Museum of Turin." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 26, no. 3 (2009): 259–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/as08035.

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AbstractThe Natural Science Museum of Turin is the owner of a small but nice collection of meteorites, partly obtained by means of direct acquisition during the last 30 years, and partly inherited from the rather old collection of the University of Turin. This collection was partially forgotten for the last 50 years, and after 1936 the collection became almost invisible. In the last 30 years the meteorite samples were tightly packaged and retained in the basement of the museum building. Currently a new listing of the meteorite collection is in progress and almost finished, in which every sample is described, measured and weighed. For each sample the authors acquired high resolution images and examined historical documentations. Images were acquired with a desktop scanner, which was found to be an ideal tool for this purpose. A classification based on most famous meteorite catalogues is coupled to each description. About eighty samples (and probably a new meteorite, not described until now) will be depicted in the new catalogue, which hopefully will be published during 2009. The authors want to inform the international community that Turin the Museum holds an important collection containing almost all of the Piedmont meteorites (e.g. MOTTA DI CONTI, CERESETO, ALESSANDRIA), some Italian meteorites of considerable historical importance (TRONZANO, ALFIANELLO, ASSISI, SIENA), together with a selection of American and Eastern European samples.

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Miller, Gary L. "A Museum at War: Snapshots of the Natural History Museum during World War One." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 122, no. 2 (May 11, 2020): 524. http://dx.doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.122.2.524.

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Hannibal, J. T., and S. G. Lucas. "Trace fossils in two North American museums: the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science." Geological Curator 8, no. 5 (June 2006): 261–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc371.

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Ohio and New Mexico are rich in trace fossils (ichnofossils), and both states have longstanding traditions of ichnological research. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, founded in 1920, has a substantial collection of ichnofossils that includes figured specimens from Ohio, West Virginia and New Jersey. Donations and intensive collecting of trace fossils followed the founding of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in 1986. This has resulted in North America's largest collection of Permian trace fossils, as well as important collections of trace fossils from several other geological systems. Trace fossils are on exhibit at both museums; both have exhibits showing a model of a large trace maker (a tetrapod in the case of the Cleveland Museum; Arthropleura in the case of the New Mexico Museum), either on or juxtaposed with a real fossil trackway. Among specimens brought to these museums for identification by members of the general public are trace fossils, although not usually identified as such, as well as concretions, which are erroneously thought to be fossil eggs. Trace fossils are also encountered and discussed during urban geological field trips in Cleveland. This article falls under our Open Access policy

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KUZMINA, TETIANA, and OLEKSANDR HOLOVACHOV. "Equine Strongylidae and other parasitic nematodes described by Arthur Looss during 1895–1911 in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History." Zootaxa 5227, no. 2 (January 5, 2023): 151–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5227.2.1.

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Prof. Arthur Looss (1861–1923) was a prolific German parasitologist, who, among other things, authored descriptions of 22 new species of nematodes and 115 new species of trematodes. After his death, his collection (including type material) was split between several institutions: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington (USA), Natural History Museum in Berlin and the Natural History Museum in Leipzig (Germany), Gothenburg Museum of Natural History and Swedish Museum of Natural History (Sweden). Here we revise all type specimens of nematodes from the A. Looss collection that are currently preserved in the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Strongylus subtilis, Sclerostomum edentatum, S. vulgare, Cyathostomum labratum, C. coronatum, C. bicoronatum, C. calicatum, C. alveatum, C. catinatum, C. nassatum, C. radiatum, C. elongatum, C. auriculatum, Triodontus minor, T. serratus, C. labiatum and Uncinaria polaris), designate and describe lectotypes wherever deemed necessary and provide catalogue access numbers to all type materials. We also revise all notes and drawings associated with new species that A. Looss described and provide previously unpublished pencilled sketches and ink print-ready drawings of some of these species (Strongylus subtilis, Cyathostomum poculatum, C. radiatum, C. elongatum, C. calicatum, C. auriculatum, Triodontus serratus, Trichostrongylus vitrinus and possibly Necator africanus).

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Pešić, Vladimir. "A list of water mite types transferred from the Museum of the Natural History in Podgorica and deposited in other museums." Ecologica Montenegrina 49 (December 25, 2021): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2021.49.8.

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A list of the water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) types originally stated to be deposited in the Museum of Natural History in Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro and later on transferred to Museum of Natural History in Basel (Switzerland) and Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (the Netherlands) is given.

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Abraczinskas, Laura, and Barbara Lundrigan. "Improving Security for Natural Science Collections at the Michigan State University Museum." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 15, 2018): e26336. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26336.

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Established in 1857, the Michigan State University (MSU) Museum houses natural science collections that include 117,000 research and teaching specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and vertebrate fossils. These collections are worldwide in scope and provide a record of biodiversity that ranges from 1844 to the present day. The collections contain specimens of rare, endangered, threatened, and extinct species. Within each vertebrate discipline, specimens are cataloged into designated research or teaching collections; these are housed within multiple research and preservation spaces, occupying 678 square meters. Currently, 394 natural science specimens are on exhibit in the Museum's gallery spaces, which include an additional 1,830 square meters. Over the past three decades, the Museum has experienced a number of thefts from both collections and exhibit areas, with the most recent specimen theft occurring in 2011: a silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus) stolen from the Museum's rainforest habitat diorama. That theft, along with the history of the others, initiated a series of improvements to the Museum's security. These included changes in personnel access to the Museum building and to collections areas; replacement and installation of new technological equipment, including key-card access and camera systems Museum-wide; and revisions of associated policies and procedures. These effectively closed "loopholes" that formerly compromised security best practice. Targeted improvements have been made at the building, gallery, elevator, room, and cabinet levels, and included specialized accommodation for specimens that are particularly sensitive, such as rhino horn (in keeping with Natural Sciences Collections Association guidance). In addition, the Museum modified operating procedures for behind-the-scenes tours of the research and collections spaces (for example, staff-to-visitor ratio and policy for use of imaging and recording equipment).

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Kirik, E., V. Aliyasova, and T. Graf. "The author's program "Natural Science Museum in the Life of a Modern School" as a way of realizing the culture-creating and pedagogical potential of natural science museums." BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES OF KAZAKHSTAN 4 (December 2021): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.52301/1684-940x-2021-4-62-69.

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This article deals with the implementation by teachers of secondary schools of the culture-creating and pedagogical potential of natural science museums with the help of the author's program. At the moment, there is a situation where society needs a holistic and informative potential of the museum. Modern education in the educational process is increasingly based on a number of museum disciplines. The museum, being a socio-cultural institution, directly influences the solution of crisis situations of civilization in the XXI century. It should be noted that the pedagogical position put forward by the authors on the potential of natural science museums, reflected in this article, is relevant not only for our country, but also for the whole world affected by globalization. The authors of the article, based on the findings of the study, compiled an author's program for teachers of secondary schools, in which they tried to reveal the main points on the implementation of the culture-creating and pedagogical potential of natural science museums.

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VALENTICH-SCOTT, PAUL, and EUGENE V. COAN. "A new species of Chama (Bivalvia, Chamidae) from Mexico." Zootaxa 2446, no. 1 (May 6, 2010): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2446.1.3.

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While preparing a review of the bivalve mollusk fauna of the Panamic Province, we encountered a conspicuous, colorful species of the genus Chama Linnaeus, 1758, that could not be identified with any named species. After examining type specimens at The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), the United States National Museum of Natural History (USNM), the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP), the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), we have concluded that this species is new to science.

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Banks, R. E. R. "Resources for the History of Science in the Libraries of the British Museum (Natural History)." British Journal for the History of Science 21, no. 1 (March 1988): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400024407.

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Alfred Waterhouse's ornate Romanesque building at South Kensington, London, has contained the natural history collections of the British Museum since 1881. First opened to the public on Easter Monday, 18 April, in that year, the British Museum (Natural History) (BM(NH)) has become well-known for the excellence of its exhibition galleries, particularly for its dinosaurs, blue whale, and, more recently, for its revolutionary Hall of Human Biology.

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SUNDERLAND, MARY E. "Teaching natural history at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology." British Journal for the History of Science 46, no. 1 (December 2, 2011): 97–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087411000872.

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AbstractDuring its centennial celebrations in 2008, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) at the University of California, Berkeley paid homage to its founding director, Joseph Grinnell. Recognized as a leading scientific institution, the MVZ managed to grow throughout the twentieth century, a period often characterized by the decline of natural history. To understand how and why research flourished at the MVZ, this paper looks closely at Grinnell's undergraduate course, the Natural History of the Vertebrates (NHV). Taught by MVZ affiliates since 1914, the NHV offers an important window on Grinnell's approach and legacy. This paper argues that the NHV contributed to the MVZ's long-term success by acting as, first, a gateway to natural history; second, a vector for the MVZ's research programme; and third, a shared faculty responsibility. Grinnell's significance in the history of science is understated, in part because his writing style de-emphasized the importance of his theoretical contributions, including his development of the niche concept, his emphasis on population thinking and geographic isolation in studies of evolution, and his effort to integrate speciation questions and genetics. Studying the NHV highlights these contributions because Grinnell freely communicated his ideas to his students. An analysis of Grinnell's course material shows that his theoretical and methodological approach pre-dated the evolutionary synthesis and inspired natural-history research throughout the past century.

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PUGA, ROGÉRIO MIGUEL. "The First Museum in China: The British Museum of Macao (1829–1834) and its Contribution to Nineteenth-Century British Natural Science." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 22, no. 3-4 (October 2012): 575–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186312000430.

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AbstractThis article establishes that the first museum in China was not the Zhendan Museum in Shanghai, founded by the French Jesuit Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902) in 1868, but the “British Museum in China”, founded in 1829 by three supercargoes of the English East India Company, in Macao, a Portuguese enclave in the Pearl River Delta since c.1577. My research, based on Portuguese, British and American sources, allows us to better understand the context in which the founders of the museum interacted and lived in Macao, how their research and field-work was important for academic British institutions such as the British Museum in London and how the British Museum of Macao was founded and became the first (western-styled) museum in China.

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Bud, Robert. "Science, meaning and myth in the museum." Public Understanding of Science 4, no. 1 (January 1995): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/4/1/001.

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The paper depicts the potential of the exhibit which addresses science and technology historically to answer urgent contemporary problems. Such exhibits can, it is argued, help the public respond to the threat posed by scientific and technological change to categories—ranging from motherhood to self-will—used to structure our world. Museum accounts can play a mythological role in helping individuals make renewed sense of their world. Examples show how hypothetical exhibits dealing with themes such as fermentation and optics can be used to enable visitors to examine their own interpretations of the natural and the subjective respectively.

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Grimé, W. E. "TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY." TAXON 36, no. 2 (May 1987): 425–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1221436.

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Fisk, Martin, and Michael Willsher. "Developments in URICA at the British Museum (Natural History)." VINE 19, no. 1 (January 1989): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb040408.

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Veracini, C., and E. Gracia-Franquesa. "The primate collection at the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona (Spain)." Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica 8 (2010): 15–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.32800/amz.2010.08.0015.

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CHANI POSSE, MARIANA, and JOSE MANUEL RAMÍREZ SALAMANCA. "Two new synonyms in Neotropical Philonthina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)." Zootaxa 4608, no. 1 (May 17, 2019): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4608.1.13.

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As part of an ongoing phylogenetic study on the Neotropical Philonthina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) that includes species of Belonuchus Nordmann, 1837, Hesperus Fauvel, 1874 and Paederomimus Sharp, 1885 (Chani Posse & Ramírez Salamanca in prep.), we examined type material of species belonging to these genera as well as conspecific material from different European and North American collections. Type and non-type material were either examined by MCP during a visit to the Natural History Museum, London, UK (BMNH) or borrowed from the following institutions: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA (FMNH), Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZMHB), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (NMW), Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada (CNC) and Snow Entomological Collection, Natural History Museum/Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA (SEMC). Based on our revision of relevant material from the abovementioned collections, two new synonyms are here proposed.

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Larson, Carolyne R. "“Noble and Delicate Sentiments”." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 42–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2017.47.1.42.

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This article explores the emotional community of museum natural scientists in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Argentina, a context in which the growth of museum natural sciences and nation-state formation became closely intertwined. Influenced by powerful nineteenth-century notions of civilization and modernity, Argentine scientists and statemakers sought to create a distinctively Argentine science, which would emulate European science in form but also retain a uniquely national character. A small group of influential museum administrators and scientists consciously strove to strengthen science’s influence in Argentine national society by creating communal norms among scientists that resonated with narratives about civilization and modernity, and that guided proper behavior and emotional expression. Scientists also challenged the expectations of their community, testing the strength of central emotional tenets such as patriotism and objectivity. This article uses emotional communities as a framework for exploring the push and pull between social patterns and individual choices in this critical moment in Argentina’s history, when new and powerful ideas about science—as a modern, objective, and national practice—emerged in tandem with nation-state formation. In particular, this article explores museum natural scientists’ emotional concerns with objectivity and patriotism through a small group of Argentine museum natural scientists: Francisco P. Moreno, Juan B. Ambrosetti, Hermann Burmeister, and Florentino Ameghino.

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Roy, Virginie, and Jean-Marc Gagnon. "Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos." Marine Biodiversity 48, no. 3 (December 6, 2016): 1357–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0610-2.

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DeWitt, Jennifer, and Emma Pegram. "What Counts as Science? Families’ Perceptions of Science in a Natural History Museum." Visitor Studies 17, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 24–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10645578.2014.885357.

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Dmitrienko, Nadezhda M. "WOMEN'S TRACK IN THE MUSEUM SCIENCE OF SIBERIA (XIX – EARLY 20TH CENTURY)." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 39 (2020): 241–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/39/22.

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The topic of this article did not attract the attention of researchers. Using of newspapers, letters and memoirs, museographical publications and some other authentic sources enabled the author to identify and highlight women's participation in the creation and activities of many museums in Siberia. First, the article shows the museum charity of women from wealthy families. They were the daughters of merchant Piotr I. Kuznetsov – Yulia (in Matveyev's marriage), Alexandra and Eudokia, the wife of the founder of Yeniseisk Museum Anastasia Kytmanova, merchant wife Mukhina and others. The author of the article emphasizes that the most important contribution to the museum science of Siberia was made by those women, who worked inside museums. The first of them was Alexandra Potanina – wife and helper of the outstanding Russian traveler and museologist Grigory Potanin. Together with her husband, Alexandra Potanina worked in the expeditions through Mongolia and China, collected herbariums, made sketches of natural landscapes and cultural artifacts, composed different historical sources and transferred them to museums in St. Petersburg, Siberian town of Kyakhta and Irkutsk. Then the author tells about Elizabeth Clements, who played a prominent role in the museum science of Siberia. She had a higher natural science education, worked in the Minusinsk Museum, and was one of the first who used museum collections in cultural and educational work. Together with her husband Dmitry Clements, she participated in scientific expeditions through Siberia and Mongolia, engaged in archaeological excavations, made herbariums and transferred all collected materials to Minusinsk and Irkutsk museums. In addition, she worked up the museum collections by herself. Maria Kostyurina played an important role in Tobolsk Museum. She was native of Tobolsk, participated in revolution movement of narondnik (populist), and was exiled to Siberia. Some later she came in Tobolsk, pub-lished the newspaper “Siberian Vestnik”. In 1890 Kostyurina joined the executive committee of To-bolsk Museum, took place in collecting of different museum materials on folklore and peasant culture around Tobolsk. She was engaged in issuing several museum catalogs, used museum materials in in-vestigations and scientific publications. The article includes the information about Maria Krasnozhe-nova, who collected, worked up and published the museum sources in Krasnoyarsk Museum. Thus, the materials of the article allow opening a new page in the history of museum science, and telling about the first Siberian women-museologists.

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Scott, David W. "Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark? Multi-Media Narratives and Natural Science Museum Discourse at the Creation Museum in Kentucky." Journal of Media and Religion 13, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 226–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2014.971570.

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Sudarikova, Elena. "FORMS OF NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUMS AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTES COLLABORATION (BY THE CASE OF THE EXHIBITION "TRAUMAS OF THE PAST")." LIFE OF THE EARTH 43, no. 2 (June 8, 2021): 217–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m2027.0514-7468.2020_43_2/217-223.

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The article examines the potential of natural science museums in the popularization of science and scientific activity, the opportunity of a museum and a scientific institute joint work to satisfy the request of visitors that cannot be realized only through the museum collection. The variety of formats for joint activities of the museum and the scientific research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in educational and educational activities are also considered here. Special attention is paid to the successful experience of exhibiting items from the funds of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the State Darwin Museum and high attention level and involvement of visitors in such projects.

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Chervonenko, Oksana, and Dmytro Kepin. "Natural history museology: establishment and formation of its theoretical bases." History of science and technology 12, no. 1 (June 19, 2022): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32703/2415-7422-2022-12-1-11-30.

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The article presents a brief historical outline of the formation and development of natural history museology in Europe in the 15th–19th centuries. The development of scientific knowledge at that time affects the idea of the world order and the place of man in it, and the combination of knowledge with practical experience leads to the birth of true science. It is shown that one of the most important components of the development of natural sciences, in particular biological sciences, was the collection of naturalia (i.e. objects of natural origin), the rapid surge of interest in which contributed to the Great Geographical Discoveries. In chronological order, the further historical development of museum work from private collections in Italy to the formation of a prototype of a genuine museum, which performs the main museum functions such as amassment, storage and demonstration of collections, is considered. The role of prominent naturalists and philosophers such as F. Bacon, C. Linnaeus, and J.-W. Goethe in the development of museum work is considered and little known facts about their work in this area are presented. The first works of art that show the interiors of “Kunstkameras”, which became widespread in Europe in the 17th–18th centuries, are briefly considered. According to the authors, it is on the portrait of the Belarusian educator F. Skorina, which was published in Prague in 1517–1519, that the interior of the first Renaissance “kunstkammer” collections is depicted. Separately, the development of museology in Ukraine since the time of Yuriy Kotermak (Drohobych) (1450–1494) is considered and the differentiation of the concept of “museum” in the monuments of Ukrainian literature of the period of the 16th–18th centuries is studied. The authors considered the methodological foundations of natural history museology and analysed the existing classifications of various branches of science. The specificity of natural history museology in the system of museological science is shown, the issue of singling out natural history museology as an independent discipline is discussed. It is proved that the periodization of museology and museum work in certain territories in historical time can be considered correct; the author's development of the periodization of natural history museology in Europe is also given.

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Barkaszi, Zoltán, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, and Anastasiia Maliuk. "Interpretation of evolution as part of science popularization in natural history museums." GEO&BIO 2021, no. 21 (December 30, 2021): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/gb2104.

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The paper presents a brief review of the scientific and educational role of natural history museums, particular-ly in the field of interpretation of organic evolution. The scientific and social value of collections that are stored at natural history museums are highlighted. The history of interpretation and popularization of basic ideas of the theory of evolution are considered, as well as the perception of evolution by the society and vari-ous categories of museum visitors. Analysed are the main tools of interpretation available in natural history museums as well as basic principles of display of palaeontological specimens, particularly in dioramas as pe-culiar museum tools for interpretation. The main approaches to the interpretation of evolution are considered in the context of selection of interpretation methods and tools and in regard to the specifics of various groups of museum visitors. Minimum professional skills of interpreters who take part in exhibiting and educational ac-tivities of natural history museums are discussed. The possibilities of interpretation of evolution are shown on the example of the palaeontological exhibition of the National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). A brief description of the palaeontological display is given, particularly on the general principles of its structure and on examples of exhibited specimens that demonstrate the evolution of various groups of vertebrates (e.g. fishes and mammals). Dioramas of the palaeontological exhibition are presented, which are especially valuable visual tools of interpretation of evolution in the muse-um. The main issues of further existence and development of natural history museums are discussed in the context of their role as powerful research and educational centres, maintaining a high level of attendance by visitors, and involvement of the public in the activities of these museums in times of high competition of lei-sure offers by various entertaining facilities. The need for the modernization of earlier exhibitions using mod-ern interactive tools and visualization techniques in underlined in order to increase public interest and expand the pool of visitors.

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Barinaga, M. "NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS: California Academy Starts on the Museum of Its Dreams." Science 304, no. 5671 (April 30, 2004): 669–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.304.5671.669.

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Håkansson, Håkan. "Museum Stobaeanum." Journal of the History of Collections 32, no. 3 (September 29, 2019): 443–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhz032.

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Abstract The Museum Stobaeanum was founded at Lund University, Sweden, in 1735. At the time, Lund was one of Scandinavia’s smallest academies, struggling for survival, and the creation of the museum was part of a modernization process intended to bring the curriculum up to a par with other European universities. The result, however, was one of the last classic Wunderkammern in Europe, reflecting ideals that would be superseded a few years later. This essay attempts to contextualize the founding of the museum by focusing on the influences of the creator, Kilian Stobaeus. Best known as the teacher of Carl Linnaeus, Stobaeus not only introduced empirical natural history to Lund but was also influenced by physico-theological ideas that were gaining popularity in 1730s Scandinavia. By examining Stobaeus’ textual sources, it is possible tentatively to explore how old practices and new ideals could coexist and merge within the culture of ‘Baroque’ science.

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Tallou, Konstantina. "Museum and Kindergarten: STEM connections between exhibits and science." Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research 2, no. 2 (2022): 333–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.25082/amler.2022.02.003.

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The present work supports the possibility of connecting exhibits of the Museum of Ali Pasha on the island of Ioannina with the Natural Sciences through an educational scenario in the light of the Theory of Activity and the SciEPIMGI design framework. In this way the educational programs designed for Museums of general interest gain added value by supporting the cooperation of formal and non-formal education. The script was designed during the training program of the University of Ioannina and was implemented in November 2021 by students of the Kindergarten of Ioannina. Through selected exhibits of the Museum, bridges with themes were detected from the Curriculum for Natural Sciences in the Kindergarten, focusing specifically on the theme "water". Theoretically, it is based on the approach of Hein's constructivism, Gardner's multiple intelligences and the active participation of Simon's student, with particular emphasis on the student's individual peculiarities regarding the ways of perceiving reality and the personal meanings he forms. The Museum-pedagogical activities that are designed apply a variety of methodologies such as students' oral expression, visual creations, hidden treasure game, writing, experimentation, creating connections, problem solving, interpretation and expression of crises, etc. Special emphasis was given to of students' senses and in experiential and exploratory learning. The museum space was utilized as a constructed environment for learning and application of museum-pedagogical methods and as an invisible educational framework that allows effective learning processes, mobilizes curiosity, evokes emotions and impressions.

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Kidman, Barbara. "Ralph Tate, his Natural History Museum at the University of Adelaide and the ‘Tate Museum'." Historical Records of Australian Science 26, no. 2 (2015): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr15003.

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Many of Ralph Tate's achievements as the University of Adelaide's foundation Professor of Natural Science arewell known.The focus here is on the quite remarkable, but almost forgotten, natural history museum that he built at the University and that after his death was named the Tate Museum. The paper outlines and explains the difficulties that Tate encountered in establishing the museum, the strictly geological focus of his successors and the gradual dispersal of Tate's main collections.

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