Silences, Cultural Historical Museums, and Jewish Life in Sweden

Social media and cultural interactive experiences in museums

Social media such as blogs, wikis and digital stories facilitate knowledge exchange through social networking. Such media create a new forum within which dispersed audiences including youth, regional and rural communities can engage with museums to actively debate notions of identity, and voice these reflections online. Social media can impact on formal and informal learning within the museum a...

Moslem, Christian, and Jewish Cultural Interaction in Sefardic Talmudic Interpretation

The general participation of Iberian Jewry in the scholastic culture of the high middle ages is very well known. Less well known is the continuing in uence the Aristotelian tradition had on Spanish and Sefardic Jewish intellectual life in the Ž fteenth and sixteenth centuries, including its most particularly Jewish of activities, the interpretation of the Talmud. In this period, there appears ...

Explaining Life: Microorganisms in Science Museums

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

Multimedia Computing and Museums: Technology, Knowledge Representation and Cultural Heritage

Of the more than sixty papers presented at the Third International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums, those selected for this volume raised particularly profound issues about the implications of multimedia and computing technologies for the representation of knowledge of cultural heritage. Nothing about the proposition that museums should extend their potential audience by d...