THE PATHOLOGICAL MUSEUM.

The Place of Clinical Pathological Museum in Medical Education

Museum as Text An Introduction to the Relationship between Semiotics and the Museum as an Institution

The Reading of Museum is the title of a book by Reza Dabirinezhad that has just been published and is available to the Iranian academic and cultural community. The author is a museum specialist and one of the renowned executives of the country's museums, who uses the methodology of semiotics to analyze the mechanism of the interpretation of museum objects and the Semantic System in museums. Sin...

The processes of museum text creation at The Spurlock Museum

While often one goes to a museum in order to see visual artifacts, be they paintings, a shovel from the fifth century, or the inside of a space engine, it is important to remember that "meaning is constructed and interpreted in relation to text-based resources: meanings do not arise from thin-air; they are textual products" (Ravelli, 150). In museums, these "resources" include, but are not limi...

Adaptive Interfaces for Web Museum Applications: the Virtual Marble Museum

If we consider most museums applications accessible through the Web, we can notice a lack of support able to adapt to the different information needs that different users may have regarding a certain topic. Adaptive support, by which an application provides different information taking into account the users’ interactions, can give useful assistance. In particular, we focus our attention on how...

Descriptive Catalogue of the Pathological Series in the Hunterian Museum of The Royal College of Surgeons of England

different teaching methods favoured in the same medical school by successive staffs. The mark left by the teacher upon the student body has been studied with particular care by the authors, as also the changing balance between research and teaching programmes. For those unfamiliar with certain links between European and American pharmacology in the last century and the role played in recent yea...