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...

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...

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...

The purposes of this research were to develop online museum for packaging using Virtual Reality. This museum was to be considered as a learning instruction resource outside class to solve the issue of insufficient time in class. The instructors encouraged learners to build up the knowledge by themselves via active learning activities. The sampling group for this study consisted of 40 second yea...

Technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) and of smart spaces provide an effective base for creating smart museums based on digitized infrastructures and information systems already deployed in many modern museums. Cultural heritage knowledge in such a museum is used by interested visitors as well as by professionals. This work continues our research on the smart museum concept and its case ...

Trolley Lines (end of route) 11 Historic Sites Betsy Ross House........................................30 Bishop White House.....................................54 Carpenter's Hall...........................................51 Christ Church Cemetery...............................24 City Tavern....................................................56 Congress Hall.......................................

Alex H. Lang, 2 Hu Li, 4 James J. Collins, 4, 5, 6 and Pankaj Mehta 2 Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston,...

1 Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA. 2 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA. 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA. 4 Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA. 5 Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Ha...