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El Sheikh, Samia Adly Hanna. "Factors affecting pre-visit destination image: application on the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)." Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (June 27, 2020): 215–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhass-11-2019-0075.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate through an empirical research the factors that would attract visitors to heritage and cultural sites as museums applied on the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). The paper aims to study the impact of the proposed attraction features learning/knowledge, museum facilities, fun/entertainment and socializing and accessibility/location on pre-visit destination image. Design/methodology/approach The author started by a thorough literature review to arrive to the suggested conceptual model, which is tested by adopting a quantitative approach where data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire from a convenient sample of 300 respondents with 90% response rate and used partial least squares – structure equation modelling using Smart PLS v.3.2.8. Findings The results show that three of the tested factors were accepted and one was rejected. Practical implications Management of GEM, which will be one of the biggest museums world-wide, can make use of the empirical results of this research to enhance their understanding of the factors that impact pre-visit destination image, and thus, most attract visitors to justify the budget set in this huge project and achieve highest visitation and revenue Originality/value This research deals with a new museum that has not opened its doors yet and will start functioning in late 2020, and thus, the pre-visit image of the museum is not based on previous experience of visitors but rather on secondary sources as messages sent to visitors based on attraction features, while most previous studies dealt with post-visit image of museums
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Ibrahim, Sameh Awadalla El-Sayad. "Exposure of University Youth to National Project Campaigns via Media and Their Relationship to Their Attitudes towards Egyptian Economic Reforms." Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University 56, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 312–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.35741/issn.0258-2724.56.2.26.

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University youth is exposed to national project campaigns through digital media and their relationship to Egyptian economic reforms. The study aimed to analyze the methods used by digital media in presenting national project campaigns and find out the campaigns of national projects presented through digital media, knowing the attitudes of university youth towards Egyptian economic reforms. The study relied on the methodology of using the survey method on a sample of university youth. The study sample consisted of 400 respondents from Ain Shams University, October 6 University, Beni-Suef University. The study concluded that the most important reasons for the interest in following up the campaigns of national projects through digital media are: because they arouse feelings of belonging to the country, identify the most important national projects that affect economic growth, obtain various information about national projects within society. The most important national projects campaigns that they were exposed to through their use of digital media are the new Administrative capital projects, the New Alamein City project, the Damietta New Furniture City project, the Grand Egyptian Museum project, the Suez Canal Economic Zone project, the one and a half million acres agricultural project, the city and resort Al-Jalala.
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Asfour, Khaled. "Vitruvian Character: The Case of the Egyptian Museum." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 8, no. 3 (November 30, 2014): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i3.366.

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In Vitruvius’ treatise, what makes good architecture is its ability to communicate to the public particular messages that reflects the program of the building with spaces and components arranged in an orderly way. According to Vitruvius these messages when acknowledges by the public the building posses strong character. This research discusses this idea by reflecting on the 1895 competition of the Egyptian Museum project. Marcel Dourgnon, the French architect of the winning scheme, showed profound understanding of character resulting in a building that had positive vibe with the local community. Today Vitruvius’ idea is still living with us. Norman Foster succeeded in upgrading the British Museum in a way that addressed all cultures of the world through his grand atrium design. Similarly, Emad Farid and Ramez Azmy revived the presence of the Egyptian Museum in public cognition. Spatial experience that evokes similar perceptions to all its visitors is a timeless piece that transcends cultural boundaries.
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Ardizzola, Paola, and Joanna Grądzka. "Renato Rizzi." VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability 7, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 4–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vitruvioijats.2022.19041.

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Full Professor in Architectural Design at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura (IUAV) in Venice, he carries out an intense intellectual activity by connecting teaching, theory, research, and practice. Prize of the Italian Presidency of the Republic for architecture 2017, he has delivered seminars and lectures in some of the main universities including Harvard, UIC Chicago, ETH, etc. From 1984 to 1992 he collaborated with Peter Eisenman, New York, on the projects Romeo and Juliet, Verona (1986, Stone Lion, III Architecture Biennale of Venice), La Villette Park, Paris (1986), Monte Paschi, Siena (1988), etc. Among the main international projects: Great Egyptian Museum, Cairo (2002, third prize); MOMA Warsaw (2007, Honorable Mention); John Paul II Center, Krakow (2007, special mention); Torre della Ricerca, Padua (2008, fourth prize, in collaboration with Peter Eisenman); Museum of Judaism, Ferrara (2010, Special Mention). Main projects completed: Ghiaie Sports Area, Trento (1984-1998); Fortunato Depero Museum of Futurism, Rovereto (1992-2008); Gdańsk Shakespearean Theater (2004-2013). His projects are published in the main international magazines such as Casabella, Domus, Architectural Review, Detail, and have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (1984, 1985, 1996, 2002, 2010 and 2016), Triennale di Milano, Accademia di San Luca, etc. Awards: Fritz Höger, Berlin, 2017; Architizer A, Belgium, 2016; Iconic Award, Monaco DB, 2015; Gold Medal, Milan, 2015, 2009; Golden Compass, Milan, 2015, 2011; Council of Europe, Landscape Award, 2009. Some significant publications: Il Cosmo della Bildung, Mimesis 2016; Unexpected Parma, MUP 2013; The Daìmon of Architecture, Mimesis 2014; John Hejduk, Incarnatio, Marsilio 2010; The Divine of the Landscape, Marsilio 2008; John Hejduk BRONX, Manual in verse, Mimesis 2020. He recently founded in Venice the Nuova Scuola Architettura, a free school that focuses on the urgency of a new (heretical) gaze at Architecture, a necessity which derives from the cultural abyss of our time. The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome is currently paying a tribute to his oeuvre in a grand exhibition of gypsum models and maquettes titled “eden-eden. Renato Rizzi”, which can be visited until March third, 2023.
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Attia, Azza, Mona Hussein, and Noha El Shaer. "The Grand Egyptian Museum: Implications for Sustainability." International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Studies 1, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijthsx.2021.82482.1009.

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Ahmed Ali Mustafa, Sarah. "Visible storage at Egyptian Museums Case Study: Grand Egyptian Museum." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Heritage Research 5, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 97–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijmshr.2022.274667.

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AbouZaid, Eman. "Stela and Fragments in the Grand Egyptian Museum." مجـلة کلية الآثـار بقنا - جامعة جنوب الوادي 10, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/mkaq.2019.159692.

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Abouzaid, Eman. "Stela of Rekhkemasaankh in the Grand Egyptian Museum." مجـلة کلية الآثـار بقنا - جامعة جنوب الوادي 9, no. 1 (July 1, 2017): 18–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/mkaq.2017.162915.

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Mansour, Yasser. "The Grand Museum of Egypt Project: architecture and museography1." Museum International 57, no. 1-2 (May 2005): 36–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0033.2005.00508.x.

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Mohamed Heniedak Abo Zeid, Omnia. "Museum Collection Management in the Past, Nowadays and in the Future (Grand Egyptian Museum “Case Study”)." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Heritage Research 5, no. 2 (December 1, 2022): 69–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijmshr.2022.274549.

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Ali, Ahmed Kamal. "Silence, Darkness and Light: The Grand Egyptian Museum." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9731.

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How can the unique legacy of the most ancient of civilizations be represented within a single building? How can one building spans the area between heaven and earth, the space described in the cosmology of our pharonic ancestors? Certainly, to design such a building is a unique challenge, and an unprecedented opportunity, on this most privileged of sites in the history of mankind, that a museum is to be constructed capable of linking the immemorial past with the distant future spanning both the horizons of the ancients and those as yet unseen. Through the investigation of phenomenology, geometry, simplicity, purity and light, listening to the voice of silence, emerging to the light from the darkness, and by understanding the strength of simplicity after passing through complexity, This thesis offers an endless stream of ideas that challenge the mind. The vision for the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is to establish a place where people from different nations and cultures will be able to immerse themselves in the rich culture heritage from more than 5.000 years of Egyptian civilization. With the support of new technology, more effective and efficient dissemination of information can be achieved, enabling the New Museum to be a source of enjoyable, entertaining, educational and cultural experiences for all visitors. This project aims at structuring a complex of exhibits and facilities, which will accommodate all Pharaonic periods, it will be the largest museum in the world, and will provide access to information and future knowledge. It results from the careful articulation of the problem and a subsequent ordering of constraints within the context of the competition proposal.
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Ali, Ahmed. "Silence, darkness, and light the Grand Egyptian Museum." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2001. http://d-nb.info/988949431/04.

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Wu, wang heng, and 吳望亨. "The Study of the Official Budget on Museum Planning：A Case Study of the Grand Palace Museum Project." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60044774748194158936.

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國立臺南藝術大學
博物館學與古物維護研究所
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The strict limitations of public works are exceedingly diverse and the related laws and regulations are vastly numerous, while the tedious examinations and the procedures often hinder personnel and the institution officer from focusing on the actual undertaken items in an operation. In addition, personnel often are unable to correctly estimate the interval of a case, resulting in wrong judgment, deferring the progress of the project and wasting funds. Therefore, the main purposes of this study are as follows： 1. Appropriately utilize Regulations for Preparing Medium-term Programming Budget, the Government Procurement Act, Implementation Directions of Preliminary Planning Process of Infrastructure Programs, Construction Cost Estimating Manual for Public Works, Public Buildings Operation Manual to understand necessary time frames and procedures. 2. Apply the author’s experience of managing the Grand Palace Museum project to brainstorm ideas through participant observation and to examine and assess entire procedures of the case to act as reference to those who encounter similar experiences, correlation procedures, undertaken items, and stipulations. Advanced knowledge of the programs, projects, and implementations will help avoid unnecessary mistakes and save time and funds to change the museum plans towards a better direction. Research Methods: 1. Analyze the ideas and understand the methods for museum planning of advanced countries by conducting correlation monographs and the referencing existing collections,also to collect the related laws, regulations, points, methods and operation manuals, etc. to formulate the standard of laws. 2. Establish basic information for the museum’s prerequisite assessment plan by obtaining audience opinions (e.g. questionnaires and internet surveys ), interviewing members of departments to understand their needs, and interviewing local residents for their opinions on the case. After forming the plan, reviews must be conducted by the construction committee, the experts and scholars committee, the local residents committee, and the Executive Yuan audit committee to provide assessment, as well as an analysis of social influences which could be the formative assessment for the plan. A comparison of the pre-planning and after-planning numbers must be done to provide the quantitative and qualitative data of planning achievement for funds, periods of time, dimension, areas, finance, personnel, and route which can be the summative assessment of the plan. 3. Stimulate, analyze, and reinterpret the difficulties of the actual operation to provide feedback for the project. The project must be investigated from the preliminary basic documents and traced back to check the tasks, goals and demands, which is called (prerequiste assessment). Although the procedure consumes much time, money and energy, it is a great opportunity to examine the museum. Through the prerequiste assessment, we may realize the merits and drawbacks of the museum plan and, moreover, we are motivated to continuously improve the museum through innovation, while maintaining the original public and social mission of providing for leisurely activities.
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Books on the topic "Grand Egyptian Museum Project"

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Yasser, Mansour, ed. The Grand Museum of Egypt: International architecture competition. Cairo: Egyptian Ministry of Culture, 2003.

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Ali, Ahmed Kamal. Silence, darkness and light: The Grand Egyptian Museum. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008.

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Pratesi, Giovanni, ed. Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Le collezioni mineralogiche e litologiche | The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence.The Mineralogical and Lithological Collections. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-319-9.

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The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo d'Asburgo Lorena, is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific museums in the world. The fourth volume on the Collections of the Mineralogy and Lithology Section, published like the previous volumes by the Firenze University Press, fits perfectly in the series dedicated to the collections of the University's Museum System. The first part of the book describes in great detail the paths that led to the formation of the collections, starting with those dating to the Medici period and arriving at the specimens collected during recent expeditions. The second part illustrates and documents the extraordinary specimens of minerals, hardstone carvings and meteorites which represent the material patrimony of this section. Particular attention is given to the holotypes, the Elban Collection and the minerals of pegmatites, as well as the methods and solutions adopted to realize the project of the new museum exhibition set-up. The third and last part describes the studies carried out on the materials: from the minerals of the systematic collections to the rock specimens that recount not only the geodiversity of a region but also the history of a city.
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Grand Museum Of Egypt V1 & V2. American University in Cairo Press, 2003.

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Catalogue of Late and Ptolemaic Period Anthropoid Sarcophagi in the Grand Egyptian Museum : Grand Egyptian Museum: Catalogue Général Vol. 1. American University in Cairo Press, 2021.

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Zan, Luca, and Daniel Shoup. Heritage and Management, Professional Utopianism, Administrative Naiveté, and Organizational Uncertainty at the Shipwrecks of Pisa. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.5.

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In 1998, archaeologists discovered the first of sixteen Roman shipwrecks at San Rossore, Pisa, 500 m from the leaning tower. Shortly afterward a grand vision for a “museum with three vertices” was articulated: a public excavation area plus a conservation laboratory and museum of Mediterranean navigation, to be constructed in an under-used sixteenth-century barracks nearby. The grand vision of three interconnected institutions became an obstacle in itself: in the absence of an administrative culture that was able to bring projects “down to earth,” the universalist and utopian tendencies of professional discourse fostered a tendency to choose the “best” project over the most feasible one, adding costs, risks, and uncertainty to an already challenging project. Based on extensive archival research, this chapter reconstructs the fifteen-year history of the project and explores the emergent management issues at this unique site, including the role of professional optimism, bureaucratic myopia, urban planning, and uncertainty.
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Selima, Mostafa, Alan Fyall, and Tadayuki Hara. "Flagship attraction development and destination competitiveness: the Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt." In Managing events, festivals and the visitor economy: concepts, collaborations and cases, 68–87. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242843.0006.

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Abstract This chapter seeks to identify those opportunities and challenges facing the development of tourism in Egypt and to examine how the development of a flagship cultural attraction offers the country a more resilient and sustainable form of tourism. The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) represents a once-in-generation opportunity for Egypt to enhance its international tourist appeal through the development of a world-leading cultural flagship attraction. The country demonstrates the role to be played by these attractions in enhancing destination competitiveness. The GEM serves as a catalyst to diversify the current Egyptian tourism product and experience, to make tourism more resilient, and to prepare the country for sustainable, long-term growth in its inbound markets.
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Shaw, Ian. "10. Cultural heritage." In Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction, 141–52. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198845461.003.0010.

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‘Cultural heritage’ discusses the impact of the events of the Arab Spring in 2011 on pharaonic cultural heritage. The first real indication of any threat to Egyptian heritage arrived on 28 January 2011, when protesters set fire to the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party in downtown Cairo, which was immediately next door to the Egyptian Museum. In addition to theft from museums or archaeological sites, there was also the phenomenon of ‘land-grabbing’ either for agriculture or building projects. There have been some very innovative approaches to cultural heritage management in Egypt, including the establishment of Egypt's new museums, such as regional museums and the Grand Egyptian Museum.
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"Grand Egyptian Museum." In Mosaics WEST8, 192–205. Basel: Birkhäuser Basel, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8216-2_16.

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Gabry, Dina El. "An Unpublished Stela in the Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo C.G. 20151." In Joyful in Thebes, 171–82. Lockwood Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/2015406.ch18.

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Badawi, Mohamed Ismael. "w Methods of Handling and Care of Collections in the Grand Egyptian Museum and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization." In Collections at Risk, 101–15. Lockwood Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/2017604.ch09.

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David, Rosalie, and Eileen Murphy. "Introduction to the Takabuti Project." In Life and Times of Takabuti in Ancient Egypt, 1–8. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348585.003.0001.

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The mummy of Takabuti is one of the best known antiquities in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Takabuti lived at the capital city of Thebes in Egypt in the 25th Dynasty (c. 600 BCE), where she enjoyed a privileged and wealthy lifestyle. In 2008/2009, the mummy underwent a series of in-depth scientific analyses at the Ulster Museum, Queen’s University Belfast, John Moores University, Liverpool, and the Universities of Manchester, Cardiff and Dundee. These revealed more information about her life and death. Now, current investigations have revealed new evidence about her ancestry, living conditions, health, and the intriguing possibility that she met a violent and untimely death. Takabuti lived in a time of great uncertainty and upheaval when Egypt was under foreign occupation. Purchased at an Egyptian “mummy market” by a wealthy Ulsterman, Takabuti created a sensation when she was brought to Belfast in 1834, and donated to the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. Following the custom prevalent in the mid-19th century, the Society’s members unwrapped the mummy in 1835, presided over by Dr Edward Hincks, a renowned Egyptologist and Assyriologist.
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Lucarelli, Rita, and Kea Johnston. "Ancient Egyptian Coffins in 3D: Digital Analysis, Visualization, and Dissemination." In Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S., 110–24. Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/equinox.42597.

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This chapter discusses the importance of digital data capture techniques such as digital photogrammetry for expanding access to texts carved on Egyptian sarcophagi by creating collections of digitized large mortuary objects. Such large objects are often stored in museum warehouses and not easily shared with scholars and the public. By providing a thorough explanation of the digital techniques and results of the “Book of the Dead in 3D” project at UC Berkeley, this chapter highlights the significance of conducting text analysis on the 3D models of the coffins by creating interactive annotations--including text transcription and translation of the magical spells--on the digital models themselves. This kind of embedded metadata is critical to scholars of Egyptology. The case study presented--the sarcophagus of Psamtik in the collections of the Phoebe Hearst Museum at Berkeley--describes in detail the technique of digital photogrammetry combined with custom programming to create the annotated 3D models.
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Ellis, Matthew H. "‘Abbas Hilmi II and the Anatomy of a Siwan Murder." In Desert Borderland. Stanford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503605008.003.0004.

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This chapter advances the book’s argument about territoriality by examining the layers of contested sovereignty in Siwa after the Khedive ‘Abbas Hilmi’s historic visit to the oasis in 1906. In part through his Da’ira Khassa (the administration of the Khedivial properties), the Khedive mobilized a network of political operatives to serve his own political designs and project his sovereign authority and legitimacy far and wide. In Siwa, this took the form of buying up local property, building a grand new mosque, and providing employment for the Siwan population at large. The Khedive also successfully integrated his private network into the traditional hierarchy of local shaykhs in the oasis. This allowed him to garner sovereignty legitimacy where the colonial Egyptian government failed—a development that is thrown into relief with my careful reconstruction of a little-known Siwan murder case in 1909.
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Peck, Robert M., and Stephen M. Rowland. "Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and the early history of three-dimensional paleontological art." In The Evolution of Paleontological Art. Geological Society of America, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2021.1218(17).

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ABSTRACT Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807–1894) was a British scientific illustrator and sculptor who illustrated many British exploration reports in the 1830s and 1840s. In the early 1850s, Hawkins was commissioned to create life-size, concrete sculptures of Iguanodon, ichthyosaurs, and other extinct animals for a permanent exhibition in south London. They were the first large sculptures of extinct vertebrates ever made, and they are still on view today. Inspired by his success in England, Hawkins launched a lecture tour and working trip to North America in 1868. Soon after his arrival, he was commissioned to “undertake the resuscitation of a group of animals of the former periods of the American continent” for public display in New York City. Had it been built, this would have been the first paleontological museum in the world. As part of this ambitious project, with the assistance of the American paleontologist Joseph Leidy, Hawkins cast the bones of a recently discovered Hadrosaurus specimen and used them to construct the first articulated dinosaur skeleton ever put on display in a museum. It was unveiled at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in November 1868. Hawkins worked tirelessly on New York’s proposed “Paleozoic Museum” for two years, until his funding was cut by William “Boss” Tweed, the corrupt leader of the Tammany Hall political machine, who grew hostile to the project and abolished the Central Park Commission that had made it possible. When Hawkins defiantly continued to work, without funding, Tweed dispatched a gang of thugs to break into his studio and smash all of the sculptures and molds. Although Hawkins would create several copies of his articulated Hadrosaurus skeleton for other institutions, the prospect of building a grand museum of paleontology in America was forever destroyed by Tweed’s actions.
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