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ALHFAM 2023: Rethink, Rejuvenate, Regenerate
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- USA
What do we want our future to be? Museums have a unique contribution to make to envision a desirable future. The collections which document the past, and the engagement with communities in the present, provide a solid foundation for thinking about the future. How do we go about this when faced with challenges that require our immediate attention?
Conference Review: The ICOM Museum Convention in Prague, August 2022
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The International Council of Museums, ICOM, has a habit of meeting every three years in a large General Conference. The last time was in Kyoto, Japan, in 2019. 媚姬直播 was present there, and we witnessed a heavy debate on the museum definition, but also spoke with many museum professionals from Japan and abroad. We worked in close cooperation with ICOM Netherlands that time...
RETOLD: On the Way for a Digital Future of Documentation in Open-air Museums 鈥 User Requirements for Data Entry and a Management Product for the RETOLD-Project
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As part of the RETOLD project, which runs from 2020 until 2024 and is funded by the Creative Europe Programme, N眉wa Digital Media Production Studios (Ireland) in collaboration with the Archaeological-Ecological Centre Albersdorf (A脰ZA, Germany) have carried out a year-long user research project for a future digital tool, that will enable open-air museums to collect and manage data...
The Experimenter's Body: Movement as an Artifact
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This paper summarises a part of the discussions carried out in the author's MA in Archaeology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Starting from the question 鈥渨hen the only thing we have is the archaeologist鈥檚 body, how can we do archaeology?鈥 We propose to engage with methodologies and theories from the field of Dance to analyse the experimenter鈥檚 body in experimental archaeology research...
RETOLD: Open-air Museum Mobile Applications UX Report - Looking for Inspiration
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This article presents the methodology and results of the report on Open-air Museums Mobile Apps, developed by the RETOLD Project in October 2021. From the analysis of a sample composed by 15 Open-air Museums mobile applications, three models for Open-air museums mobile apps are proposed according to different visit experiences.
Event Review: Metallurgy Short Course at SHARP, 2022
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This year The Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) resumed its Introduction to Metallurgy course with a day-long class followed by metal casting demonstrations during its annual Open Day. It took place on July 16-17, 2022...
Event Review: 40 years of cooperation between the University of Vienna and MAMUZ
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The University of Vienna 鈥淧ractice of Experimental Archaeology鈥 course took place from June 30th to July 3rd at MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya. Under the guidance of their tutors, numerous students worked on the implementation of theoretical experiments that they had previously prepared and designed...
Virtual Reality 鈥 1 Project - 13 Museums
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Visitors in 13 museums in the rural area around the city of L眉neburg (Lower Saxonia, Germany) can now discover different aspects of the interrelationship between man and nature within a virtual world. Six themes or titles guide through to whole story, like nature means threat, or nature means work or beauty, etc. symbolised by a silhouette.
Book Review: MI-60. Studies in Experimental Archaeometallurgy: Methodological Approaches from Non-Ferrous Metallurgies by Georges Verly et al (eds)
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Issue 60 of Monographies Instrumentum, titled Studies in Experimental Archaeometallurgy, methodological Approaches from Non-ferrous Metallurgies, exhibits 10 papers presented at the first International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metal Metallurgy and Experimental Archaeology 鈥 Metallurgie des non-ferreux et archeologie experimentale ICA I. The conference was held at the Museum of Art and History...
Book Review: Visitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers by Nigel Mills (ed)
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鈥淰isitor Experiences and Audiences for the Roman Frontiers鈥, BAR Publishing - BAR International Series contains 14 papers presented originally at the Limes Congress in Serbia in 2018. The Limes made the headlines on a variety of occasions in recent years, being the most ambitious UNESCO World Heritage project in Europe. Not all of these headlines were positive...