hundreds of stray coins are being donated every year to different iranian museums but it is difficult to establish their authenticities due to lack of knowledge about places of their findings. part of these stray metallic pieces is related to parthians. due to their lengthy rule, of about five centuries, parthian coins form important part of numismatic collection at the museums. authors have ta...

abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...

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Most research activity concerned with building technology for museum visits is oriented toward the individual. Yet, people tend to visit museums in small groups. Ethnographic studies give a fundamental role for a successful small group visit to conversation among the members of the group, elaborating on their current experience. Can technology help fostering face-to face, natural conversation? ...

RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archives) software permits simultaneous access to documentary multimedia databases of European museums. The challenge awaiting specialists in museums, universities, and cultural institutions when the cost of telecommunication go down, for the general public to access cultural heritage information, will lie in the use of common standards by the museum community. RAM...

A café table is a traditional setting for conversation. Tabletop displays may have an active role in this connection. In particular for a museum scenario, conversation after the visit is important for a joint elaboration of a small group visit experience. We propose the museum café as the location to introduce a tabletop display meant to foster and support conversation about the visit. The goal...

In line with a tradition dating back two hundred years, the role of The Orsay Museum, like all French museums, is not only to conserve and study the national heritage, but also to act as a centre of education and culture. Though the Orsay Museum may be def ied as a "museum of fine arts", its design and broad range of artistic disciplines have widened the scope of the model inherited from the la...