Dissertations / Theses: 'Historical museums'

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Cheng, Wai-yen Selina. "The Diaspora museum of Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947631.

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Lau, Yuen-ping Monika. "Urban museum complex." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2594597x.

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Chiu, Sai-chung Cary. "Redevelopment of San Wai." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25944976.

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Essig, Timothy W. "An examination of visitor services and personnel ethics training programs for several museums in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1999. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2939. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-68).

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Jourdan, Katherine Marie. "Demise or survival of historical house museums." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/445623.

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Today there are hundreds of historic house museums open in communities across the country. Many of these museums recognize a noted historical character or event while others are noted for their architectural styling and detail. How should these museums care for their collections and interpretations to keep their standards high and to attract visitors? The case studies look at how several museums in east central Indiana operate and manage under different types of ownership, including state, county, and city governments, foundations, and historic groups. From interviews and visitations these museums were analysed as to how they coped with finances, day to day operations, traffic, collections and maintenance policies. The histories and future goals of each site were also researched and documented. Conclusions were drawn after these case studies were finished as to what were the best methods of management in order to achieve a high quality historic house museum.
Department of Architecture

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Lee, Karen M. "The historical development of Zimbabwe's museums and monuments." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15127.

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The history of Zimbabwe's museums and monuments begins with the coming of British settlers to the colony of Rhodesia in 1890. By 1902 Rhodesia had one fully functional museum called the Rhodesia Museum. This museum concentrated on geology and natural history, two areas that the new colonists were anxious to explore and exploit in order to build up the country's young economy. In 1936 the Rhodesia Museum was nationalised and in the next twenty years two more museums were added to the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia organisation. Although the museums emphasised their objectivity as research and educational centres they also followed government policies that promoted white colonial culture over that of the indigenous black population. This suppression of the African heritage was more marked in the settlers' attitudes towards the country's monuments. At Great Zimbabwe and Matopos, both traditionally significant for local blacks, the white colonists supported interpretations that justified their rale over the African and rejected any involvement of the black tribes in the history of these two monuments. During the 1950s the museums and monuments conformed to the white administration's agenda and took an increasingly biased stand against the Africans, who had started to demand a greater say in the government of Rhodesia. By the time civil war broke out between black and white Rhodesians in 1966, these cultural organisations had become political tools for the colonial cause. This made their situation difficult when after fourteen years the black nationalists won the right to rule Zimbabwe. However, because of their unique ability to mirror the political, social and economic circumstances of the country the museums and monuments remain important contributors to Zimbabwe's cultural history and heritage.

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Bernard, Elisa. "Museums as Living Organisms. A Historical Perspective on Change and Continuity in Museum Institutions." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2023. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/374/1/Bernard_phdThesis.pdf.

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This dissertation engages with a question that is underrated and underexplored in the literature on museum history: how do museums respond to and/or trigger societal, political, and cultural changes? To answer this question, the research concentrates on art and archaeological museums in Italy between National Unification and the post-war period. Indeed, the history of Italian museums and theoretical debates over how to organize museums and public education in late nineteenth/early twentieth-century Italy provide paradigmatic cases. The first chapter gives an overview of the dominant avenues of research in social, political, and cultural history and role of the museum, spotlighting key historical moments and historiographical approaches. It then applies to museum institutions the Greek philosopher Plato’s well-known observation that no living organism or no piece of knowledge stays the same throughout its lifetime since the fundamental nature of human bodies and knowledge is continuous change. We can thus ask what causes a museum to be perceived as the same museum over time and analyze the conditions under which the balance between continuity and change breaks down. Combining contextual analysis and a case study approach appeared to be the most promising strategy to address these questions. For example, an analysis of the debate over the function and mission of archaeological museums in post-Unification Italy shows that museums can serve multiple purposes. These purposes, in turn, might shape museums’ collections, visions, and display and narrative strategies. The second and third chapters present the analysis of two case studies that contextualize this idea that museums never remain the same. They also outline an analytical model drafted as part of this research according to which the study of the concrete changes museums undergo or trigger in their interaction with, and in relation to, societal, political, and cultural changes enable us to identify the active fields of force in any given situation in which museums are located and act as institutions. The case studies identified and analyzed in thisdissertation are the National Museum of Palermo and Civic Museum of Padua. The analysis proposed here classifies various stimuli for change, both exogenous and endogenous, and shows how these forces can coalesce in specific moments of a museum’s life so that, viewed aposteriori, they turn into pivotal turning points. At the same time, the research presented here also takes into account museums’behavioral complexity in responding to and triggering change while maintaining continuity.

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Tivy, Mary. "THE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN ONTARIO 1851-1985: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2821.

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This thesis is a study of the changing model of the local history museum in Ontario, Canada and the consequential changing interpretations of the past in these institutions.

Beginning in 1879, local history museums in Ontario developed largely from the energies of local historical societies bent on collecting the past. While science museums used taxonomy and classification to mirror the natural state of the world, history museums had no equivalent framework for organizing collections as real-world referents. Often organized without apparent design, by the early 20th century a deductive method was used to categorize and display history collections into functional groups based on manufacture and use.

By the mid-twentieth century an inductive approach for interpreting collections in exhibits was promoted to make these objects more meaningful and interesting to museum visitors, and to justify their collection. This approach relied on the recontextualization of the object through two methods: text-based, narrative exhibits; and verisimilitude, the recreation of the historical environment in which the artifact would have been originally used. These exhibit practices became part of the syllabus of history museum work as it professionalized during the mid-twentieth century, almost a full century after the science museum. In Ontario, recontextualizing artifacts eventually dominated the process of recreating the past at museums. Objects were consigned to placement within textual storylines in order to impart accurate meaning. At its most elaborate, artifacts were recontextualized into houses, and buildings into villages, wherein the public could fully immerse themselves in a tableau of the past. Throughout this process, the dynamic of recontextualization to enhance visitor experience subtlety shifted the historical artifact from its previous position in the museum as an autonomous relic of the past, to one subordinate to context.

Although presented as absolute, the narratives and reconstructions formed by these collecting and exhibiting practices were contingent on a multitude of shifting factors, such as accepted museum practice, physical, economic and human resources available to the museum operation, and prevailing beliefs about the past and community identity. This thesis exposes the wider field of museum practice in Ontario community history museums over a century while the case study of Doon Pioneer Village shows in detail the conditional qualities of historical reconstruction in museum exhibits and historical restoration.

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Choi, Kam-lung Franky. "Macau history museum complex." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25948684.

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Cook, Bettye Alexander Contreras Gloria. "A chronological study of experiential education in the American history museum." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5190.

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Venable, Alan J. "A translation of boat tectonics into an architectural project." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21601.

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Huang, P. H. J. "Examining museums collections from a semiotic viewpoint : a historical review." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604703.

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This dissertation aims to use Saussure's and Peirce's sign theories to offer new insights into museum communication. One of the key practices for museum professionals is to interpret exhibited objects and to send out the interpretations to audiences. Yet so far very little work has been done to explore the significance of classification principles/structures in meaning-giving. The primary objectives of this dissertation are hence to establish classification principles as the centre of museum communication and to investigate related interceptive issues systematically. Saussure's semiology and structuralism will be firstly presented to argue that in any systematically-classified collection, the defining meanings/interpretations of the objects are endowed by the classification principle of the system. But I will also propose that to allow exhibited objects to be understood more comprehensively and closer to how they are perceived in real life, museums need to supplement the meanings of Saussurean classifications with supportive interpretations. Based on this framework, a series of classification principles and their satellite communication channels (labels, exhibition elements, etc.) will then be examined. The research shall allow that while the nature of classification principles has changed over time, the overall interpretative approach of museums towards 'object signs' has also turned from Saussurean to Peircean, from providing 'one correct single meaning' to acknowledging 'multiple meanings given by multiple interpreters'. The main contributions of this study are: 1. identify the importance of classification principles in museum interpretation/communication and render a theoretical account of meaning-formation for 'object signs' in organised collections. 2. give a historical review of how 'objects signs' have been interpreted by Western museums for future reference. 3. use Peirce's semiotics to offer a new perspective so that topics of 'what interpretations are given to the objects', 'how the interpretations conveyed', and 'who are the interpreters', can be inspected in an integrated fashion.

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Kim, Hyungsook. "Objects and knowledge : a historical perspective on American art museums /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488188894441767.

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Menezes, Carlos. "The Accountability of public museums in Portugal." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2015. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/97112.

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This research examines the historical development and current state of accountability practices in Portugal’s public museums, within the context of New Public Management (NPM) philosophies. The study addresses the following research questions: (1) What systems of accountability presently apply to Portugal's public museums? (2) What are the historical determinants of these systems and what has been the role of NPM? (3) Relative to the objectives and missions of the museums, what deficiencies are evident in the systems of accountability and how might these be redressed? New institutional theory, supplemented by the concepts of path dependency, practical drift and governmentality, provides the theoretical framework for examining the historical determinants of accountability practices, identifying the limitations of those practices, and proposing possible solutions. This study adopts an interpretative paradigm and an inductive reasoning approach. The research uses a case study approach based on the Portuguese Museums Network. The study combines quantitative, archival and qualitative (interviews) data. The survey was administered to directors and other people directly responsible for the management of public museums and yielded 220 usable responses. The analysis of archival data included historical documents available in the archives of museums, legislation, newspapers and historical books. Finally, 26 interviews were conducted with directors and other personnel from nine museums and six interviews were conducted with representatives from the central government and relevant professional associations. The findings show that present accountability systems in Portuguese public museums are hierarchical and frail and provide limited information for meaningful accountability evaluations. In addition, accountability has been influenced by historical path dependency, leading to museums being used as instruments of governmentality for controlling citizens, society and public organisations. The implementation of NPM and double entry bookkeeping are reflections of a process of institutional isomorphism that has led to a process of “double talking” and the adoption of practical drift situations. The accountability deficiencies identified – within the context of the missions and objectives of museums – lead to a set of recommendations to improve accountability in the sector. Managerial implications stemming from the study entail, for example, giving more managerial autonomy to the museums; periodically auditing the collections and their scope; and, producing new accounting rules that reflect and involve relevant stakeholders.
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Kendig, Julie E. Hafertepe Kenneth. "Comparison of comprehension of historical information in first- and third-person museum interpretation." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4828.

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Costa, Carina Martins. "Uma arca das tradições: educar e comemorar no Museu Mariano Procópio." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/8991.

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This thesis is a reflection on the making o Brazilian History writings in museums since the 1920s, a central moment for the establishment of a republican 'pedagogy of nationality' based on museal support. Some of the political-pedagogic efforts of those institutions were observed in order to understand the chief characteristics of an educational paradigm for historical knowledge in museums. Thus, the analysis of civic celebrations, guides and expositions allowed an approximation of the memorial activations of museum actors, with special attention to the continuities, negotiations and transformations o the projects, particularly in their pedagogic dimension. Mariano Procópio Museum was chosen as a case study both due to its specificities, which leads us to understand the 'concert' of national museums from the countryside, and to the relevance of its collection and the intensity of educational actions developed under the Geralda Armond management (1944-1980). The Armond management in the center of this thesis, marked by the defense of institutional continuity and of the framing of the Lage family memory; by the struggle of the material maintenance of the museum, with a close approximation to the civilian and military regime; and by the search for the professionalization of personnel and for dynamism in actions. The results highlight the multiplicity and fragility of the museum’s identity formation, associated to the fact that it is a 'municipal' museum. A situation which explains, at least in part, its oblivion in the national scene, despite its expressive collection and its articulation with the school system, through the strengthening of the civic sense of its pedagogic actions.
Esta tese é uma reflexão sobre a construção de escritas da História do Brasil em museus, a partir da década de 1920, momento fulcral para o estabelecimento de uma 'pedagogia da nacionalidade' republicana, que tem por suporte o discurso museal. Alguns dos esforços político-pedagógicos dessas instituições foram observados, com o objetivo de compreender as principais características de um paradigma educativo para o saber histórico nos museus. Assim, a análise das comemorações cívicas, dos guias de divulgação e das exposições permitiu uma aproximação das ativações memoriais ensejadas pelos atores dos museus, com atenção para as continuidades, as negociações e as transformações dos projetos, especialmente em sua dimensão pedagógica. O Museu Mariano Procópio foi selecionado para a realização de um estudo de caso, tanto por suas especificidades, que nos induzem a pensar o 'concerto' dos museus nacionais a partir do interior do país como pela relevância de seu acervo e pela intensidade de ações educativas desenvolvidas na gestão de Geralda Armond (1944-1980). A gestão Armond é o foco da tese, sendo marcada pela defesa da continuidade institucional e do enquadramento da memória da família Lage; pela luta pela sustentação material do Museu, inclusive com uma forte aproximação com o regime civil e militar; e pela busca da profissionalização de quadros e do dinamismo das ações. Os resultados atentam para a multiplicidade e fragilidade na construção identitária do Museu, associada ao fato de ser um museu 'municipal'. Uma situação que explica, ao menos em parte, seu esquecimento no cenário nacional a despeito de seu acervo expressivo e das articulações encetadas com o sistema escolar, por meio do fortalecimento do sentido cívico de suas ações pedagógicas.

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Ngai, Siu-kit Joanna. "Floating outdoor museum : journey through the historical path of Macau /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34613626.

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Allen, Erin Evangeline. "Hidden meanings: a search for the historical worldview in the Oberlin College Ethnographic Collection organizational systems." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1323803885.

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Birdwhistell, Benjamin P. "Manipulated Museum History and Silenced Memories of Aggression: Historical Revisionism and Japanese Government Censorship of Peace Museums." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2312.

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The Japanese government has a vested interest in either avoiding discussion of its war-torn past or arguing for a revisionist take. The need to play up Japanese victimization over Japanese aggression during World War II has led to many museums having their exhibits censored or revised to fit this narrative goal. During the 1990’s, Japan’s national discourse was more open to discussions of war crimes and the damage caused by their aggression. This in turn led to the creation of many “peace museums” that are intended to discuss and confront this history as frankly as possible. At the beginning of the 21st century, public discourse turned against these museums and only private museums have avoided censorship. Some museums, like the Osaka International Peace Center, have been devastated by the censorship. This museum and other museums with similar narrative issues raise questions about appropriate narrative on display. What is appropriate to censor for the sake of respect for the dead? What must be included for the sake of historical accuracy and honesty about the past? These questions are investigated at four different peace museums throughout Japan.

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Ho, Man-ching Gordon, and 何文靑. "Brewery musuem in Qingdao, China: a historical place revitalization." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984587.

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O'Malley, Lori L. "The restoration and operation of two historical house museums at Todmorden Mills." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0015/MQ51607.pdf.

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Lau, Yuen-ping Monika, and 劉婉萍. "Urban museum complex." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982451.

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Smith, Charlotte H. F. "The house enshrined : great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia /." Online version, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24545.

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Petrov, Julia. "Dressing ghosts : museum exhibitions of historical fashion in Britain and North America." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/11065.

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By critically analyzing trends in museum fashion exhibition practice over the past century, this thesis defines and describes the varied representations of historical fashion within museum exhibitions in Britain and North America. Evidence collected through archival research on past exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bath Fashion Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the McCord Museum, and supplemented by media reports, academic reviews, as well as secondary theoretical literature, suggests that the discourses of historical fashion exhibitions have been heavily influenced by the anxieties and values placed upon fashion more generally. The discipline of fashion curation is deeply rooted in and dependent upon much earlier display practices in museums, galleries, and shops. The interplay between personal and world-historical narratives in exhibitions, the celebration of consumerism and corporate brand identity, as well as claims to aesthetic universality and quality, continued to surface across historical fashion exhibitions in all the institutions studied over the period 1913 to the present. Moreover, historical fashion, as it has been displayed in the case study institutions, also reflects the function of the museum institution itself, especially its visual marking of time and social contexts. This thesis contributes to a growing literature on the history of museums and on fashion curation and provides a historical framework for exhibitions of historical fashion to both disciplines. The worksheet generated during data-gathering provides an objective vocabulary for evaluating the physical and intellectual content of a historical fashion exhibition, and is a potentially useful tool for future researchers. Furthermore, as this dissertation investigates the role of display as a means of communication about material culture, it provides new and original insights into this important aspect of museum practice and therefore, also contributes to theoretical debates within the larger field of cultural heritage.

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Nyman, Mikaela. "Mysiga Gamla Linköping : Det konstruerade kulturarvets historieanspråk och dess autenticitet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-75162.

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Denna studie diskuterar hur kulturarv, i detta fall Friluftsmuseet Gamla Linköping, är uppbyggt och hur dess utformning gör att anspråk på historisk representation och autenticitet. De tre män som deltog som informanter i denna studie vet att Gamla Linköping är konstruerad genom omlokalisering av gamla byggnader till platsen, vilket skapar bilden av en liten stad i början av 1900-talet. Under intervjuerna med informanterna, frågade jag om de upplever Gamla Linköping som antingen ett museum eller en stadsdel - och svaret var komplex. I huvudsak ansåg informanterna att Gamla Linköping är ett levande samhälle som illustrerar det förflutna. Jag har genomfört denna studie genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och deltagande observationer på Adventsmarknaden i Gamla Linköping. Genom de deltagande observationerna på Adventsmarknaden blev det möjligt för informanterna att fortsätta reflektionen över vad och hur de uppfattar vara representativ och autentiskt i förhållande till Gamla Linköping miljön. Studien är indelad i fyra delar; Museum eller stadsdel?, Dåtiden i nutiden, Adventsmarknaden, Kulturarv - för vem?. I denna studie har jag diskuterat det faktum att alla kulturarv produceras av olika samtida maktcentra. Det innebär att kulturarv inte är något naturgivet objekt som i sig själv har ett värde – utan genom samtidens normer tillägnas vissa historiska kulturella uttryck värden och konstruerar subjektiva kulturarv.
This study has discussed how cultural heritage, in this case the museum Old Linköping, is constructed and how its design makes claim to historical representation and authenticity. The three men who participated as informants in this study know that Old Linköping is constructed through the relocation of old buildings to the site, thus creating the image of a small town in the early 1900's. During the interviews with informants, I asked the question if they experience Old Linköping as either a museum or a district - and the answer was complex. In essence, the informants generally held view that Old Linköping will be a living community that illustrates the past. I have conducted this study through semi-structured interviews and participant observations on the Advent market in Old Linköping. Through participant observation in the Advent market, it became possible for the informants to continue to reflect on what and how they perceive to be representative and authentic in relation to the Old Linköping environment. The study is divided into four parts; Museum or district?, Past in the present, Advent Market, Heritage - for whom?. In this study, I have discussed the fact that all cultural heritages are produced by various contemporary centers of power. This means that cultural heritage is not something given by nature but by current standards are directed toward certain historical cultural expressions of values and constructs a subjective cultural heritage.

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Pienoski, Christine Marie Pienoski. "Pyramids of Lake Erie: The Historical Evolution of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Egyptian Collection." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461522282.

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Brown, Lyndsey S. "Founding Force, Forgotten Focus: A Case Study of Gender Influence Within the Preservation of Historic House Museums, with Emphasis on the Jacobsburg Historical Society's Boulton Historic Site in Pennsylvania." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/162987.

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Historic house museums are the focus of an ideological tension between preservation and interpretation within the public history community. At a time where many house museums are failing, preservationists advocate for solutions to the house museum dilemma focused on saving the building. Historians and other museum professionals point to the importance of the value of the collections, memories, and documents preserved within the house as critical tools for understanding and teaching American history. Of specific focus in this thesis is the role gender influence played in the formation of historic house museums and how an examination of its continuing effect on agency within heritage sites creates access points for cutting-edge public history and interpretation. This is done through a case study of the history of the Jacobsburg Historical Society's Boulton Historic Site in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The site was the location of the Boulton Gun Works, built in 1812 by the Henry family, manufacturers of the Pennsylvania Longrifle and key members of the early industrial community of Jacobsburg, located just north of the Moravian community of Nazareth.
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Cook, Bettye Alexander. "A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5190/.

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This study traced the evolution of experiential education in American history museums from 1787 to 2007. Because of a decline in attendance, museum educators need to identify best practices to draw and retain audiences. I used 16 museology and history journals, books, and archives of museums prominent for using the method. I also interviewed 15 museum educators who employ experiential learning, one master interpreter of the National Park Service, and an independent museum exhibit developer. Experiential education involves doing with hands touching physical materials. Four minor questions concerned antecedents of experiential learning, reasons to invest in the method, the influence of social context, and cultural pluralism. Next is a review of the theorists whose works support experiential learning: Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Lewin, Bruner, Eisner, Hein, and David Kolb plus master parks interpreter Freeman Tilden. The 8 characteristics they support include prior experiences, physical action, interaction with the environment, use of the senses, emotion, social relationships, and personal meaning. Other sections are manifestation of experiential learning, transformation of history museums, and cultural pluralism in history museums. The research design is descriptive, and the procedure, document analysis and structured interview. Findings are divided by decades after the first 120 years. Social context, examples of experiential learning, and multicultural activities are detailed. Then findings are discussed by patterns of delivery: sensory experiences, actions as diversion and performance, outreach of traveling trunks and of organized activity, crafts as handwork and as skills, role-playing, simulation, hands-on museum work, and minor patterns. The decline of involvement of citizens in the civic and cultural life of the community has adversely affected history museums. Experiential learning can stop this trend and transform museum work, as open-air museums and the National Park Service have demonstrated. In the future history museums may include technology, a more diverse audience, and adults in its experiential educational plans to thrive. Further research is needed on evaluation, finances, and small museums.

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Cheng, Wai-yen Selina, and 鄭慧賢. "The Diaspora museum of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985117.

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Wagner, Krista Ann. "Farbs, Stickjocks, and Costume Nazis: A Study of the Living History Subculture in Modern America." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1196710568.

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King, James R. "A dichotomy of prescence." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03032009-040426/.

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Poirrier, Lauren. "A Comparative Study of the National First Ladies' Library and the Women's Rights National Historical Park." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1277819335.

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Ajaj, Ahmad M. "The historical development of university museums in Jordan (1962-2006) : objectives and perspectives : case studies of archaeology museums at the Jordan and Yarmouk Universities." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31153.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore in depth the historical development of university archaeology museums in Jordan from 1962 to the present day. The development of concepts and perspectives is revealed through an exploration of the operation and deployment of institutional mission, staffing, exhibitions, collection development, architecture and spatial arrangement, outreach and funding. In order to achieve a high resolution study, two case studies were selected: the Archaeology Museum at the University of Jordan/Amman (established 1962), which is the earliest example of this kind of museum in the country, and the Museum of Jordanian Heritage at Yarmouk University/Irbid (established 1984), which is considered the most successful of these museums. These two museums represent different stages in the establishment of museum culture in Jordan. A core method adopted in this research is that of oral history, but it also involves examination of the documentary record and the physical attributes of the museums themselves. This study reveals radically different conceptions of the museum in Jordan in the latter half of the twentieth century. The museum at the University of Jordan embodied the values of the 1960s, which constrained its ambitions and limited its success, while that at Yarmouk University used this earlier model as the antithesis of its vision, shaping a thoroughly modern and outward-looking institution. It did this, in part, by drawing in staff from the older museum. The Yarmouk University Museum, in a country still coming to terms with the museum concept, made itself a modern centre of local and international networks. Indeed, it took on some of the characteristics of a national museum. The factors that made this transformation in museum thinking possible reflect local conditions in Jordan, where the influence of the Royal Family is significant. However, they also reveal the overriding significance of key visionaries and how the country moved from overt Western influence to develop museums which are quintessentially Jordanian.

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Brusadin, Leandro Benedini [UNESP]. "A dinâmica do patrimônio cultural e o Museu da Inconfidência em Outro Preto (MG)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103115.

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O título proposto desta tese de doutoramento pretende enunciar que, através do estudo do Museu da Inconfidência, localizado em Ouro Preto – Minas Gerais, pode-se analisar a dinâmica do patrimônio cultural. Essa instituição museológica realiza uma reconstrução histórica baseada no poder simbólico dos mitos que lhe deram origem, por meio de uma tradição inventada, e ainda realçam o imaginário social que foi incorporado a uma memória nacional. O Museu da Inconfidência passou, assim, a realizar diversas atividades com seu público relacionadas à participação da comunidade e à atividade turística. Entendendo esse público como parte essencial no processo daquele patrimônio, este trabalho estuda as formas de legitimidade que o próprio público lhe confere. A dinâmica cultural do patrimônio e suas interfaces com o imaginário social se relacionam aos processos de memória e identidade por meio dos seus símbolos e tradições. Desse modo, surge a prerrogativa da interpretação do patrimônio como ferramenta lúdica que pode atrelar a aprendizagem histórica do público às suas necessidades contemporâneas do lazer
The proposed title of doctoral thesis aims to lay down that, through the study of Inconfidência's Museum, located in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, one can analyze the dynamics of cultural heritage. This museological institution accomplishes a historical reconstruction based on the symbolic power of myths that gave origin to itself, through an invented tradition, and even enhance the social imagination that was incorporated in a brazilian national memory. The Inconfidência's Museum went thus to perform different activities with its public related to participation of the community and the tourism activity. Understanding this public as an essential part in the process of that heritage, this thesis studies the shapes of legitimacy that the public relates to the museum. The dynamics of cultural heritage and its interface with the social imaginary relate to the process of memory and identity through his symbols and traditions. Thus arises the prerogative of the interpretation of heritage as a playful tool that can leash historic public learning to the needs of contemporary leisure

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Ngai, Siu-kit Joanna, and 魏小潔. "Floating outdoor museum: journey through the historical path of Macau." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4500965X.

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Sippel, Elizabeth. "The role of memory, museums and memorials in reconciling the past : the Apartheid Museum and Red Location Museum as case studies." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005773.

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When South Africa became a democracy, many of its cultural institutions were tainted by the stigma of having been tools for the production and propagation of apartheid ideology. This thesis examines two key facets of post-apartheid museums and memorials. Firstly, how they have repositioned themselves as institutions of cultural and social standing. Secondly, their role as tools of nation building, social change, and creators of national collective memory within the new democratic South Africa. Through an analysis of cultural memory theory pertaining to museology, this study elaborates on the methods employed by museums to incorporate memory into their narratives and in turn, transfer collective memory to their viewers. This thesis provides a comparative study of the architectural, memorial and museological strategies of two post-apartheid museums; the Red Location Museum and the Apartbeid Museum. It examines the contributions of both museums to the introduction of new museological strategies for the successful creation and transmission of South African collective memory. Through this analysis, both the invaluable contributions and the drawbacks of post-apartheid museums as tools for the promotion of new democratic ideologies and philosophies are considered. This thesis does not resolve the arguments and questions which have surfaced regarding cultural institutions as tools for the promotion of reconciliation and the construction of national collective memory within South Africa. As the current climate of memorialisation is one of change and paradox, it is presently impossible to fully quantify post-apartheid museums' roles within South Africa's move toward reconciliation and social change. However, the examination of both the Red Location Museum and the Apartheid Museum reveals the extraordinary change that South African cultural institutions have undergone in addition to their potential to become institutions which facilitate active reconciliation as well as social and cultural growth.

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Allvin, Fanny, and Johanna Sedig. "How should the responsibility for interior maintenance be regulated? – A study of seven museums’ leases." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-125743.

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All premises are covered by a lease which governs the rights and obligations between landlord and tenant. Contracts can be designed in different ways, but to develop a contract that takes all possible outcomes into account is basically impossible. One can still in various ways make contracts as clear as possible. One area which often causes problem of boundaries is maintenance of interior surface layers, and this is the problem that this thesis focuses on. We have studied this issue at the National Property Board (SFV) by looking at seven museums. As a landlord, SFV is strongly tied to many of their tenants because of the special facilities they manage. Because many of the tenants of SFV are strongly tied to the premises that the business is conducted in, the ability to terminate the contract is limited for both parties. It makes the relationship with the tenants extremely important since it is long-term. Even tenants cherish the relationship with SFV and short-term conflicts are rare. There is simply a lot of value in avoiding conflicts and disputes are often solved by compromises. To regulate the responsibilities and provide clarity between SFV and their tenants SFV uses detailed demarcation lists. It has been shown that these lists are rarely used because of its length and incalculability. Our judgment is that because both parties care so much about having a good relationship, they will perform their obligations, which means that such detailed demarcation lists are not necessary. Our recommendation is instead a shorter, more general list, which we believe would simplify the situation, both for SFV and their tenants.
Alla lokaler omfattas av ett hyreskontrakt som reglerar rättigheter och skyldigheter mellan hyresgäst och hyresvärd. Kontrakten kan utformas på olika sätt men att ta fram ett kontrakt som tar hänsyn till alla möjliga utfall är i princip omöjligt. Man kan ändå på olika sätt försöka göra kontrakten så tydliga som möjligt. Något som ofta ställer till gränsdragningsproblem är underhåll av inre ytskikt, och det är denna problematik som detta examensarbete fokuserar på. Vi har studerat denna problematik hos Statens fastighetsverk (SFV) utifrån att titta på sju museer. Som hyresvärd är SFV starkt bundna till många av sina hyresgäster på grund av de speciella lokaler de förvaltar. Eftersom många av SFVs hyresgäster är knutna till den lokal som verksamheten bedrivs i, är möjligheten att säga upp kontraktet begränsat för båda parter. Det gör att relationen med hyresgästerna är oerhört viktig, då den är minst sagt långsiktig. Även hyresgästerna värnar om relationen med SFV och kortsiktiga konflikter är ovanliga. Det finns helt enkelt ett stort värde i att hålla sams och eventuella konflikter löses ofta genom kompromisser. För att reglera ansvarsfördelningen och skapa tydlighet mellan SFV och hyresgästerna använder sig SFV av detaljrika gränsdragningslistor. Det har dock visat sig att dessa listor sällan används i praktiken på grund av sin längd och oöverskådlighet. Vår bedömning är att eftersom parterna är så måna om sin relation, kommer de att sköta sina åtaganden vilket gör att så detaljerade gränsdragningslistor inte är nödvändiga. Vårrekommendation är istället en kortare, mer generell lista, vilket vi tror skulle förenkla både för SFV och deras hyresgäster.

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Choi, Kam-lung Franky, and 蔡錦龍. "Macau history museum complex." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982670.

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Grefe, Christiana Morgan. "Museums of order : 'truth', politics, and the interpretation of America's historic prisons /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174613.

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Cole, Edward. "Handle with care : historical geographies and difficult cultural legacies of egg-collecting." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7800/.

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This thesis offers an examination of egg-collecting, which was a very popular pastime in Britain from the Victorian era well into the twentieth century. Collectors, both young and old, would often spend whole days and sometimes longer trips in a wide variety of different habitats, from sea shores to moorlands, wetlands to craggy mountainsides, searching for birds’ nests and the bounty to be found within them. Once collectors had found and taken eggs, they emptied out the contents; hence, they were really eggshell collectors. Some egg collectors claimed that egg-collecting was not just a hobby but a science, going by the name of oology, and seeking to establish oology as a recognised sub-discipline of ornithology, these collectors or oologists established formal institutions such as associations and societies, attended meetings where they exhibited unusual finds, and also contributed to specialist publications dedicated to oology. Egg-collecting was therefore many things at once: a culture of the British countryside, from where many eggs were taken; a culture of natural history, taking on the trappings of a science; and a culture of enthusiasm, providing a consuming passion for many collectors. By the early twentieth century, however, opposing voices were increasingly being raised, by conservation groups and other observers, about the impact that egg-collecting was having on bird populations and on the welfare of individual birds. By mid-century the tide had turned against the collectors, and egg-collecting in Britain was largely outlawed in 1954, with further restrictions imposed in 1981. While many egg collections have been lost or destroyed, some have been donated to museums, including Glasgow Museums (GM), which holds in its collections over 30,000 eggs. As a Collaborative Doctoral Award involving the University of Glasgow and GM, the project outlined in this thesis aims to bring to light and to life these egg collections, the activities of the collectors who originally built them, and the wider world of British egg-collecting. By researching archival material held by Glasgow Museums, published specialist egg-collecting journals and other published sources, as well as the eggs as a material archive, this thesis seeks to recover some of the practices and preoccupations of egg collectors. It also recounts the practical activities carried out during the course of the project at GM, particularly those involving a collection of eggs newly donated to the museum during the course of this project, culminating in a new temporary display of birds’ eggs at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre.

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Hammer, Sjobor Athon. "Face, Space, And Anxiety: An Ethnographic Study of the Kansas Historical Society's Social Media Usage." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1428009790.

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Morakinyo, Olusegun Nelson. "A historical and conceptual analysis of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5648_1346401876.

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In 1998 the University of the Western Cape together with the University of Cape Town, and the Robben Island Museum introduced a Post-graduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies. This programme was innovative in that not only did it bring together two universities in a programme where the inequalities of resources derived from their apartheid legacies was recognised, but it also formally incorporated an institution of public culture that was seeking to make a substantial imprint in the post-apartheid heritage sphere as part of its structure. In 2003 this programme attracted substantial funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and was rebranded as the African Program in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS). While this rebranding of the programme might seem to be innocently unproblematic and commendable as part of the effort at re-insertion of South Africa into Africa after the isolation of apartheid, an analysis of the concepts employed in the rebranding raises serious theoretical, conceptual, and disciplinary questions for heritage studies as an academic discipline and for its connections with other fields, especially the interdisciplinary study of Africa. What are the implications of a programme that brings together the concepts of Ê¹African-Heritage-StudiesÊ¹? Does the rebranding signify a major epistemological positioning in the study of Africa or has it chosen to ignore debates on the problematic of the conjunction of the concepts? This study address these issues through a historical and philosophical analysis of the programme, exploring how it was developed both in relation to ideas of heritage and heritage studies in Africa and, most importantly by re-locating it in debates on the changing meaning of
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Toledo, Grasiela Tebaldi. "A pesquisa arqueológica na Estância Velha do Jarau e os museus da Fronteira Oeste do Rio Grande do Sul - interfaces entre Patrimônio, Memória e Identidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-19062012-102924/.

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A pesquisa apresentada versa sobre três temáticas inter-relacionadas - fronteira, estâncias e museus - na região da Fronteira Oeste do Rio Grande do Sul, através da pesquisa arqueológica realizada na Estância Velha do Jarau (Quaraí/RS) e das visitas às instituições museológicas dos municípios que formam a Campanha Gaúcha. Relacionou-se a formação histórica da Fronteira Oeste, marcada pelo estabelecimento de estâncias, com o perfil histórico-cultural da região atualmente, buscando identificar mudanças e permanências que se processaram nesse espaço e servem como indicadores de memória e identidade. Foram analisadas as louças da Estância Velha do Jarau demonstrando como este espaço é múltiplo e representativo do ambiente doméstico de uma estância de criação de gado do século XIX, muitas vezes rememorada somente por seus elementos político-econômicos, bélicos e produtivos, não relacionando este espaço à uma unidade doméstica e familiar. A partir desses dois primeiros eixos (fronteira e estância) diagnosticou-se de que forma a memória estancieira está presente nos museus da região e como estes podem contribuir para valorização e ampliação do patrimônio e da identidade local/regional. Ao final foram propostas estratégias para musealização do acervo arqueológico da Estância Velha do Jarau, partindo de premissas básicas da ação museológica que se norteiam pelo preservacionismo e educação.
The research herein presented deals with three interrelated themes - frontier, cattle farms and museums - in the western frontier region of Rio Grande do Sul, through archaeological research conducted at Estancia Velha Jarau (Quaraí/RS) and visits to the museums of the cities that make up the Campanha Gaúcha (Gaucho Plains). It relates to the historical formation of the western frontier, marked by the establishment of farms with a historical and cultural profile of the region today, in order to identify changes and continuities which occurred in this space and are used as indicators of memory and identity. Chinaware from the Estância Velha do Jarau was analyzed, demonstrating how this space is multiple and represents the household environment of a cattle farm in the nineteenth century, often recognized only for its political and economic elements, and war production, and not connecting this space to a household and family context. From these first two axes (frontier and cattle farm) an examination was made of the way in which memory of the cattle farm is present in the museums of the region and how they can contribute to the recovery and expansion of heritage and identity at the local/regional level. Finally, strategies have been proposed for the museum housing of the archaeological collection from Estância Velha do Jarau, starting from the basic premises of museology that are centered around preservation and education.

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Silpa, Felicia Bianca. "Historical archaeology research designs for Gamble Plantation, Ellenton, Florida." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002684.

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Stanek, Lucas J. "Claiming Spaces, Claiming the Past: Tourism and Public History in Xi'an, China since the 1990s." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501170379686393.

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Lauer, John. "The war and race museum : adding African-American history to the Cyclorama." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23097.

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Brusadin, Leandro Benedini. "A dinâmica do patrimônio cultural e o Museu da Inconfidência em Outro Preto (MG) /." Franca : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103115.

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Resumo: O título proposto desta tese de doutoramento pretende enunciar que, através do estudo do Museu da Inconfidência, localizado em Ouro Preto - Minas Gerais, pode-se analisar a dinâmica do patrimônio cultural. Essa instituição museológica realiza uma reconstrução histórica baseada no poder simbólico dos mitos que lhe deram origem, por meio de uma tradição inventada, e ainda realçam o imaginário social que foi incorporado a uma memória nacional. O Museu da Inconfidência passou, assim, a realizar diversas atividades com seu público relacionadas à participação da comunidade e à atividade turística. Entendendo esse público como parte essencial no processo daquele patrimônio, este trabalho estuda as formas de legitimidade que o próprio público lhe confere. A dinâmica cultural do patrimônio e suas interfaces com o imaginário social se relacionam aos processos de memória e identidade por meio dos seus símbolos e tradições. Desse modo, surge a prerrogativa da interpretação do patrimônio como ferramenta lúdica que pode atrelar a aprendizagem histórica do público às suas necessidades contemporâneas do lazer
Abstract: The proposed title of doctoral thesis aims to lay down that, through the study of Inconfidência's Museum, located in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, one can analyze the dynamics of cultural heritage. This museological institution accomplishes a historical reconstruction based on the symbolic power of myths that gave origin to itself, through an invented tradition, and even enhance the social imagination that was incorporated in a brazilian national memory. The Inconfidência's Museum went thus to perform different activities with its public related to participation of the community and the tourism activity. Understanding this public as an essential part in the process of that heritage, this thesis studies the shapes of legitimacy that the public relates to the museum. The dynamics of cultural heritage and its interface with the social imaginary relate to the process of memory and identity through his symbols and traditions. Thus arises the prerogative of the interpretation of heritage as a playful tool that can leash historic public learning to the needs of contemporary leisure
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Mnyaka, Phindezwa Elizabeth. "Re-tracing representations and identities in twentieth century South African and African photography: Joseph Denfield, regimes of seeing and alternative visual histories." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/540.

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The thesis examines the photographic collection of Joseph Denfield, an archivist and historian who experimented with photography over a twenty-year period. The study is located within the field of critical visual studies that focuses on historical photography in its depiction of identities and groups in the context of social change. The thesis pays attention to the manner and extent to which Denfield participated in regional visual economies at various moments during his photographic career in order to establish his contribution towards a visual history in Africa and more broadly Southern Africa. It follows Denfield’s career trajectory chronologically. It begins with a study of his photographic work in Nigeria which was oriented around so-called ‘pagan tribes’ and which was framed within the discourse of ethnography. It then pays attention to his growth as an artist in photography that resulted from years of exhibiting in salons. I read these photographs and texts in relation to his earlier work in Nigeria given the extent to which he drew on anthropological discourses. It is through his involvement with photographic art circles that Denfield developed as a historian as a result of his research into the history of photography and regional visual histories. This took the form of both unearthing historical photographs as well as photographing historical sites to construct the past in particular ways through the visual. At each stage he translated these histories into public forms of representation and power thus he figures among a small group of ‘colonial’ photographers that shaped the visual economy of Southern Africa. Through a detailed study of his work, the thesis thus aims to re-think through new dimensions of visual culture.

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Barker, Lesley Aileen Pendleton. "Repurposing museum interpretation in American historic house museums." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41082.

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To investigate whether the American historic house museum sector preserves evidence of past inter-cultural encounters that could increase its relevance to today’s scholars and audiences, I charged a seven-member team made up of members from different ethnic, socio-economic, educational and generational backgrounds to visit and produce photographs at three historic house museums in St. Louis, Missouri. The photo-voice data was created, gathered, and submitted by the participant team members at the height of the social unrest triggered by Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement. It argues for the relevance and sustainability of the historic house museum sector as a venue for the development of new approaches to understanding past intercultural encounters and, in fact, to suggest redesigning the way museum interpretation is practiced. The visual data provided by the participant team for this dissertation demonstrates how people bring their own perspectives to respond to, critique, question and embrace what the museum asserts and displays about past inter-cultural encounters. The research suggests that the museum has the potential to shift its interpretive role and practice from knowledge broker and expert to become an interpretive space where new hermeneutics-informed understanding in the tradition of Gadamer continually emerges iteratively through the interaction invited between the museum, its content, and the various members of its audiences. It argues that, if the museum is to remain relevant, especially in particularly difficult moments, it has to provide a space to honor and respectfully both solicit and receive the voices, understandings, and even the pain experienced by each member of the affected community.

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Wise, Emily D. "Development Strategies of Historic House Museums." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1216866930.

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