The Náprstek Museum, Prague, holds in its collection a mummy of large bird. mummy, along with other ancient Egyptian antiquities, was transferred to the National Museum 1933 from Esterházy manor Tomášikovo, Slovakia. Originally, it believed be human child; however, examination through initially destructive and later non-destructive methods identified object as stork, sacred ibis.

Through several years of second year and capstone projects, we have had some excellent projects implemented for local museums. Museums worldwide are dealing with issues such as huge volumes of data, the dichotomy of needing to protect and store artefacts while making them available for the public, a strong educational focus and a shortfall in funding. Information technology solutions can solve ...

museum sees its mission as extending beyond the Zambezi to all of Africa: “Museum Africa is not about revisionist African history written by biased Afrocentric writers . . . rather, it is a journey back to the glory years of the African continent’s past.” Byala does an admirable job of setting this history in terms of contemporary museological theory. Following Michel Foucault and Jacques Derri...

As museum exhibition become technically complex and design teams more specialised and fragmented, the need to plan and co-ordinate the design process with greater quality is becoming important. According to previous research of museum studies, traditional object-based displays are being replaced by multi-disciplinary technology -based exhibits in science museums, therefore, a specifically multi...

We evaluated the usefulness of a Hypermedia Exhibit Guide System, a Hypermedia Learning System, a Multimedia Database Retrieval System, and a Remote Video Question System as museum education tools at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. All the systems were considered acceptable by visitors to the museums,and seemed to help them become more familiar with exhibited artifacts. Among other rea...

Bird specimens collected by 19(th) century explorer and ornithologist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied form one of the foundation collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. However, parts of his collection remained in Germany and came to the Museum Wiesbaden. Since Wied described numerous new species without designating types, some of these specimens might be type mater...

Corporate sponsorship of a museum needs to be understood as a legitimised marketing method to create higher value for the audience. Effective strategic sponsorship has proved that it can help museum organisations create a variety of programmes for the public and increase competitiveness at the same time. This dissertation studies the recent managerial transformation process of the museum sector...

In this paper we present a new approach to displaying and browsing a digital library in Perseus that consists of a set of Greek vases. This approach is applicable to Digital Libraries in general, however. Our new design extends previous research by taking advantage of Virtual Reality to present context even while the user focuses on a single item. Using Virtual Reality, users are not limited to...

Metadata plays a crucial role in a digital library/museum environment. However, the development of metadata is not an easy task. Its formulation starts with analyzing the attributes of collections as well as understanding the user information needs and information seeking behavior. The issue of interoperability also needs to be considered in terms of both semantics and syntax. This paper discus...

One decade has passed since the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts initiated the foundation of the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, providing it with the location of 300m in Gundulićeva Street 24 in Zagreb. The foundation of the Museum was the Collection of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy which was in safekeeping of the Division for the History of Medical Sciences of the Croati...