SIEF new working group on Museums and Material Culture

From industry to culture: leftovers, time and material transformation in four contemporary museums

Reconstructing the World’s Museums: Supplementary Material

CSG model manipulation also allows us to lower back-facing walls to improve visibility from a specific viewing angle (See Fig. 1). Let v be the viewing direction, for which the model is to be optimized, and denote hf and hb as the maximum height of the structure to be reconstructed for the front-facing and back-facing walls, respectively. For each primitive, we translate the primitive along eac...

Developing a Learning Culture in Museums

The term ‘learning organisation’ is now a common feature of museum management discourse and, by implication, raises the issue of how a museum itself learns about approaches to ‘learning’. As ‘learning in museums’ becomes a major focus for many museums, clearly formulated and institutionally supported ideas about ‘learning’ should be an essential part of our role in interpreting natural and cult...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Archaeology and material culture

This outstanding collection of papers documents the quality and quantity of historical archaeology research conducted on the island of Jamaica over the past thirty years. Jamaica offers a significant location for the investigation of the colonial enterprise in the Americas. Beginning with Spanish explorations and conquest in the sixteenth century, followed by British accession in 1655, the isla...