Natural history museums play a significant role in educating the general public about evolution. This article describes Explore Evolution, one of the largest evolution education projects funded by the National Science Foundation. A group of regional museums from the Midwestern United States worked with leading evolutionary scientists to create multiple permanent exhibit galleries and a curricul...

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...

Introduction In a series of lectures given at Oxford University this year, we introduced our students to the history of ethnographic museums, with the Pitt Rivers Museum on our doorstep as a highly significant exemplar of the relationship between academic anthropology, colonial-period collecting and the role of objects in constructions of culture. In looking back to the nineteenth and twentieth...

This presentation focuses on an ongoing project which aims at the creation of a large lexical database of Portuguese multiword (MW) units, automatically extracted through the analysis of a balanced 50 million word corpus, statistically interpreted with lexical association measures and validated by hand. This database covers different types of MW units, like named entities, and lexical associati...

This paper presents the COMBINA-PT project, a study of corpus-extracted Portuguese Multiword (MW) expressions. The objective of this on-going project is to compile a large lexical database of multiword (MW) units of the Portuguese language, automatically extracted from a balanced 50 million word corpus, interpreted with lexical association measures and manually validated. MW expressions conside...

Professor: Mark van der Laan Email: [email protected] Office: 108 Haviland Hall Office Hours: MW 1-2 Textbook: None required, but material is covered in a handout distributed to the class. Optional reading is The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data by Kalbfleisch and Prentice. Grading: Based on attendance, class notes (students write their notes for one lecture as a LaTex document), ...

STOLEN Sixteenth-century icon painted on wood: Virgin and Child. The painting is badly damaged and only part of the head of the Infant Jesus is visible. Dimensions: height (left) 24.1 cm, (right) 20.7 cm, width 23.4 cm, thickness 1.7 cm. Corrigendum We would like to apologise for the error printed in Jim Angus's article in Museum International 205. The final paragraph of his article should have...

Evaluation has a long history of practice in museums globally, evolving from practical, exhibition-specific studies to a strategic tool used in management planning, capital developments and accountability. Evaluation in museums also has to take account of increased use of new technologies, a broader interest in complex social issues such as sustainability, Indigenous rights and social justice, ...