This thesis introduces the concept of living exhibitions: continuously evolving museum exhibitions that are cooperatively developed and evaluated by teams of museum professionals and visitor representatives. The author argues that the living exhibition design process should draw its inspiration from multiple resources, including current research on museum learning, interaction principles and te...

This paper explores the gap between museum policy and practice in the United Kingdom (UK) by offering empirical evidence from a comparative street-level analysis of museum services in Scotland, England and Wales. Exploring devolution in cultural services from the ground-level using Lipsky’s (1980) ‘street-level’ approach gives new insights to the role of groundlevel workers in cultural policy. ...

Egypt has no domestic silver ore sources and is rarely found in the Egyptian archaeological record until Middle Bronze Age. Bracelets tomb of queen Hetepheres I, mother pyramid builder king Khufu (date reign c. 2589–2566 BC), form largest most famous collection artefacts from early Egypt, but they have not been analysed for decades. We samples Museum Fine Arts, Boston using bulk XRF, micro-XRF,...

We describe the prototype of an interactive, web-based, museum artifact search and information service. Mo Músaem F́ıorúil clusters and indexes images of museum artifacts taken by visitors to the museum where the images are captured using a passive capture device such as Microsoft’s SenseCam [1]. The system also matches clustered artifacts to images of the same artifact from the museums official...

The use of the term "virtual" is commonly associated with the idea of an extension of reality. Similarly, the expression "virtual museum" is usually adopted to mean a process of duplication of a physical museum and its objects that is enabled by information technologies. Therefore, "virtual museum" has become a useful synonym for multimedia products and websites capable of providing new and fre...

Boston University and National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA; Dept of Medicine (Cardiovascular Division), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Section of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Section of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA; Center for Human Genetic Research,...