Stephen Burrow, National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Foreword. Catalogues
of the prehistoric collections held by the National Museum of Wales have a long
history. The first was compiled by Mr (later Professor) W F Grimes," while he was
...
Author: Stephen Burrow
Publisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 9780720005165
Category: Excavations (Archaeology)
Page: 398
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This essential and unique aspect of the Museum's collections is comprehensively catalogued for the first time. Contains background information on archaeological finds and their locations.
M. H. Lazarus, Heather Susan Pardoe, National Museums & Galleries of Wales.
Claire Dalby ( 1944- ) Claire was born in St Andrews , Fife and was eventually
trained at the City and Guilds of London Art School . Over the next thirty years ...
Author: M. H. Lazarus
Publisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 0720005256
Category: Botanical illustration
Page: 319
View: 269
There are over 7,000 botanical illustrations in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales, now comprehensively catalogued for the first time
Christopher Whitehead HISCHAPTERWILL explore oneofthekeycharacteristicsof
nineteenthcentury national museums in Britain: that of mapping the world,
bothgeographically, epistemologically and socially. I will argue that the national ...
Author: Simon Knell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317723134
Category: Social Science
Page: 504
View: 364
National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics in recent decades. National Museums combines research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and philosophies of national museums.
National Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgrade 152, 156–57 National Museum of Croatia, Zagreb 152 National Museum of Czechoslovakia, Prague 37 National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 68, 151, 157 National Museum of ...
Author: Peter Aronsson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317569152
Category: Social Science
Page: 212
View: 947
Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states – former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities – deploy and prioritise different types of museums (based on art, archaeology, culture and ethnography) in their making, this book constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states.
In P. Aronsson and G. Elgenius (eds), Building National Museums in Europe
1750–2010. Conference proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity, Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen,
Bologna 28–30 ...
Author: Sheila Watson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000205435
Category: Art
Page: 214
View: 738
National Museums and the Origins of Nations provides the first international survey of origins stories in national museums and examines the ways in which such museums use the distant past as a vehicle to reflect the concerns of the political present. Offering an international comparison of institutions in China, North and South America, the Middle East, Europe and Australia, the book argues that national museums tell us more about what sort of community a nation wishes to be today, than how and why that nation came into being. Watson also reveals the ways in which narrative and exhibition design attempt to engage the visitor in an emotional experience designed to promote loyalty to, and pride in, the nation, or to remind visitors who are not citizens that they do not belong. These narratives of origin are, it is claimed, based on so-called factual accuracies, but this book reveals that they are often selective, emotional and rarely critiqued within institutions. At a time when nationalism is very much back on the political agenda, this book highlights how museums reflect current political and social concerns. National Museums and the Origins of Nations will appeal to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, politics, nationalism and history.
Nicholas Holmes, National Museums of Scotland. SYLLOGE OF COINS OF THE
BRITISH ISLES 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . 13–15 . 16 . FITZWILLIAM
MUSEUM , CAMBRIDGE . Ancient British and Anglo - Saxon Coins .
Author: Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit OfficePublish On: 2006-06-08
different documentation recording systems, each museum's records were
assessed separately. For accreditation purposes, museums must meet the
SPECTRUM minimum standard. MAGNI museums are registered under the Museums, ...
The National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland (MAGNI), created in 1998, brought together the Ulster Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, and the Ulster-American Folk Park (and it is also responsible for the operation of W5, the first Science Discovery Centre in Ireland, opened in 2001). The collection comprises some 1.45 million artefacts and works of art. The NIAO examined the structure of MAGNI, and the documentation and storage of the collection. Since 1994 all acquisitions have been documented to SPECTRUM (Standard ProcEdures for CollecTions Recording Used in Museums) standards, an internationally recognised standard for museum documentation. Although considerable progress has been made in computerisation, less than ten per cent of records are currently computerised. NIAO recommends: (i) a key performance indicator covering the percentage of the collection documented to international standards, reported annually; (ii) more photographing of important items (for records and internet use); (iii) regular physical inspection of a sample of records. At present only ten percent of the collection is on display. Storage of the remainder in some 50 separate locations was found to be poor or unacceptable in 30 locations, although the main stores holding the bulk of the collection are classed as good to excellent. NIAO welcomes the storage development plan being created, and recommends consideration of a centralized store, and performance indicators on storage conditions and internet accessibility to improve public access to the collections.
A majority of the dominant culture wants national museums to be homogeneous
and noncontroversial entities rather than places where various groups might use
space differently, cater to different audiences, or exhibit alternative aesthetic ...
Author: Amy Lonetree
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803211117
Category: Social Science
Page: 475
View: 474
The first American national museum designed and run by indigenous peoples, the Smithsonian Institution?s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC opened in 2004. It represents both the United States as a singular nation and the myriad indigenous nations within its borders. Constructed with materials closely connected to Native communities across the continent, the museum contains more than 800,000 objects and three permanent galleries and routinely holds workshops and seminar series. This first comprehensive look at the National Museum of the American Indian encompasses a variety of perspectives, including those of Natives and non-Natives, museum employees, and outside scholars across disciplines such as cultural studies and criticism, art history, history, museum studies, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Native American studies. The contributors engage in critical dialogues about key aspects of the museum?s origin, exhibits, significance, and the relationship between Native Americans and other related museums.
Hassan Hissein Director of the Sudan National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums Włodzimierz Godlewski University of Warsaw Polish Centre of
Mediterranean Archaeology PREFACE BY THE EDITOR The history of the
catalogue of VIII ...
Author: Adam Łajtar
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9042912529
Category: History
Page: 265
View: 563
The book contains the edition of 123 Greek inscriptions kept in the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. Two of them were monuments set up by Axumite kings in Meroe City after victorious campaigns carried out against the Meroitic state still before the official conversion of the kingdom of Axum to Christianity in the middle of the 4th century. The remaining texts, in overwhelming majority epitaphs, are connected to the Nubian Christian culture flourishing between the 1st and the 6th Nile cataract from the 6th until the 14th/15th century. The inscriptions are presented in the geographical order from the north to the south. Each text is reproduced, edited (in many cases for the first time), translated and provided with an extensive commentary. The book opens with an introduction on the language, form and dating of the inscriptions. It is supplemented by ample indices and concordances. The book constitutes an indispensable instrument and material for every student of medieval Nubia. It shall also be of interest among scholars researching Oriental Christianity and Greek epigraphy.
Author: United States National MuseumPublish On: 1897
United States National Museum. deposit cotypes with the chief museums of the
world . It has been our policy to do this as far as possible , and as soon as the
international postal laws are amended so as to allow the acceptance of these ...
Of especial note are the casts (together with the dies) of Welsh railway seals held
in the National Railway Museums at Swindon and York. Original impressions
occur attached to Welsh deeds not only at the British Library (Dept. of MSS), the ...
Author: David Henry Williams
Publisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 0720003814
Category: Seals (Numismatics)
Page: 102
View: 388
A comprehensive catalogue of all the seal dies, some 497 Welsh seals, and lead papal bullae in the National Museums & Galleries of Wales' collections.
In Cuvier ' s original description ( Ann . du Muséum , xix , 1812 , p . 9 ) 110 single
skull is mentioned , and the species , therefore , has no type . The description ,
however , and the figure afterwards published in the Ossements fossiles , would ...
Author: United States National MuseumPublish On: 1891
United States National Museum. confronted with the old question as to ... This is a
question that has been discussed since museums began , and is perhaps now
no nearer settlement than ever . I find the specialist almost wholly inclined to the ...
Author: United States National MuseumPublish On: 1889
condition of fossil botany , published in the Fifth Annual Report of the Director of
the Geological Survey , gives an excellent idea of the character of the work which
he has undertaken to accomplish in connection with the National Museum ...
Author: Robert Maurice OwensPublish On: 1995-01-01
Supplement 1971-1994 Robert Maurice Owens, Michael G. Bassett, National Museum of Wales ... Bibliography and index of catalogues of type, figured, and
cited fossils in museums in Britain. Palaeontology, 18, 753-73. 1977. The
articulate ...
Author: Robert Maurice Owens
Publisher: National Museum Wales
ISBN: 9780720004229
Category: Fossils
Page: 250
View: 605
This catalogue lists all 'type and figured fossils' - those described, illustrated or referred to by geologists in scientific publications - up to the end of 1994.
