The Rocky Road to Multimedia: Museum Politics and Institutional Change

Multimedia and the Politics of Museum Organisational Change

This paper will summarise several personally-held conclusions developed from the experience of working with a consortium of museum education departments, the Museum Education Consortium (MEC), to produce multimedia projects related to teaching about art. In short, it is my opinion that we have not yet achieved many of our goals because there is no consensus within and among museums about how to...

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An Institutional Arrangements : The Politics of Art Museums

My inquiry examines art's institutional arrangements through the present character of modern and contemporary art museums. This examination is positioned initially with the postmodernist theoretical evaluation of the art museum which argues the rupture of the modernist art episteme signaled the end of the museum and the project of constructing art's history. I limited my inquiry to museums loca...

Visual Objects and Universal Meanings: AIDS Posters and the Politics of Globalisation and History

Drawing on recent visual and spatial turns in history writing, this paper considers AIDS posters from the perspective of their museum 'afterlife' as collected material objects. Museum spaces serve changing political and epistemological projects, and the visual objects they house are not immune from them. A recent globally themed exhibition of AIDS posters at an arts and crafts museum in Hamburg...

یافته علمی کوتاه: معرفی شکم پایان خانواده Cypraeidae در ناحیه بین جزر و مدی سواحل جنوبی جزیره قشم،خلیج فارس

Gastropod communities were investigated along two intertidal sandy and rocky shores in Qeshm Island, the northern Persian Gulf, IR Iran to identify the species of the family Cypraeidae. Monthly sampling was undertaken from May 2007 to April 2008 by haphazardly placing eighteen 0.25 m2 quadrates along two 30m wide transects located approximately 300m apart, perpendicular to the sea, in each sand...