Traditionally, artworks are seen as autonomous objects that stand (or should stand) on their own. However, at least since the emergence of Conceptual Art in the 1920s and Pop Art in the 1960s, art lacks any distinctive perceptual features that define it as such. Art, therefore, cannot be defined without reference to its context. Some studies have shown that context affects the evaluation of art...

The main product of MM for use in the registration activity is the Database (DB) on the artefacts of the museum collections, combining text, images, and graphics. The quality of the images must be appropriate at least to current television standards. The application of such technology will allow the display of images and descriptions on any specific artwork or group of artworks, such as is usua...

The project of the Digital Science & Technology Museum of China is constructed by the China Association for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Chinese Academy of Sciences, of which the objective is to integrate the high quality digital science popularization resources in China to construct an Internet-based national science popularization resources sharing platform. This project ...

Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine that has deleterious effect in some autoimmune diseases, which led to the use of anti-TNF drugs in some of these diseases. However, some rare patients treated with these drugs paradoxically develop an aggravation of their disease or new onset autoimmunity, revealing an immunosuppressive facet of TNF. A possible mechanism of thi...

 Introduction: learning, the visiting experience and the art museum as educator, Des Griffin and Leon Paroissien  ‘Protecting the past, safeguarding the future’: museum studies, the profession and museum practice in Australia, Jennifer Barrett  What's driving children's cultural participation?, Barbara Piscitelli  The museum education mix: students, teachers and museum educators, Janette Gr...

Research and teaching in the university would benefit if high-quality museum images and associated information could be made available over campus networks for educational purposes. For this to be possible, however, museums and educational institutions need to define a common framework for information collection, distribution, and use, that respects intellectual property rights. The Museum Educ...

Personnel is a strategic factor in the successful operation of museums. The harsh social and economic constraints challenging the cultural sector today amplify the importance of personnel management. However, the field of personnel in museums has received little notice as yet and has played a subordinate role in the discussion of museum management. This paper examines possible reasons for the n...

Hideaki Iida1,∗), Takumi Doi2, Noriyoshi Ishii3, Hideo Suganuma4 and Kyosuke Tsumura5 1YITP, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 2 Dept. of Phys. & Astr., University of Kentucky, Lexington KY 40506, USA 3CCS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan 4Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 5Analysis Technology Center, Fujifilm Corporation,...

Innerhalb der Bildungsinstitution Museum entstehen durch den Einsatz von Informationsund Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) neue Möglichkeiten der Informationsvermittlung. Im Blended Museum wird versucht, virtuelle und reale Präsentationsformen miteinander zu vermischen. Dies ermöglicht hybride Vermittlungsstrategien, die neue und vor allem vielfältigere Besuchererfahrungen erlauben, als dies mit...