Examples of a few objects are presented, where the electron microprobe has proved that it can provide the conservator and the curator with information that will help in evaluating the authenticity of a particular art object. They will also obtain a better understanding of how an object was fabricated and what materials it was made from. The results of the analysis of paint samples, samples from...

This paper, based on doctoral research carried out from January 2003 through July 2005, addresses the interpretation and representation of non-Western religious material culture in Western museums and offers a comprehensive view of the way traditional religious Yorùbá objects are displayed in contemporary museums in Britain. Museum exhibitions can be conceived as a visual narrative, which absor...

A team of staff and students at the Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media came together to research the potential for interactive multimedia in museum programs to contribute to community regeneration. The project was part of the exhibition Play Up Pompey! which celebrates the centenary year of Portsmouth Football Club. The School's contribution was The Team in the Stand, a visitor-authored...

Among tlie whalebone whales found on the Atlantic coast of North America the Pollack Wliale {Balmnoptera horealis) is the species about whose occurrence the least is known. Hitherto the only recorded eastern American specimens have been some blades of baleen from Newfoundland, in the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and one jaw, several blades of baleen, and two ribs from Chatham Light,...

Explaining why he had founded I . & magazine in 1936, Henry Luce said, 'To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon; to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls, things dangerous to come to; to see and to tak...

The astrolabe, an analog computing device, used to be the iconic instrument of astronomers during the Middle Ages. It allowed a multitude of operations of practical astronomy which were otherwise cumbersome to perform in an epoch when mathematics had apparently almost been forgotten. Usually made from wood or sheet metal, a few hundred instruments, mostly from brass, survived until today and ar...

Shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, the Prussian State Library was restructured, birthing a new entity – Deutsch-Ausländischer Buchtausch (DAB, German Foreign Book Exchange). The DAB responsible for exchanging books and serials with scholarly institutions worldwide. In 1936, University of Denver (DU) received gift from DAB. Nearly 50 per cent would be categorised as Nazi propaganda or eugenic...