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Preserving collections in tropical countries

Pearson, Colin | 1997
  • Author(s): Pearson, Colin
  • Publisher: J. Paul Getty trust
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, museology, cultural property protection, cultural heritage
The best museum collection environment is a stable one. For smaller museums, particularly in tropical countries, there is not money for climate-control systems. These museums believe that without air-conditioned museums, their collections will disintegrate.

Guidelines for museums

Peralta, Jesus T. | cop. 2008
  • Author(s): Peralta, Jesus T.
  • Publisher: National commission for culture and the arts (NCCA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museology, museums, cultural property protection, cultural heritage
This set of guidelines covers such useful information as the character of a museum, collections, documentation, accession records, catalogues, physical facilities, computer databases, storage, exhibitions, conservation and storage.

The 2009 UNESCO framework for cultural statistics (FCS)

Pessoa, José and Deloumeaux, Lydia and Ellis, Simon | 2009
  • Author(s): Pessoa, José and Deloumeaux, Lydia and Ellis, Simon
  • Publisher: UNESCO institute for statistics (UIS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural statistics, manuals
This framework is a tool for organizing cultural statistics both nationally & internationally. It is based on a conceptual foundation & a common nderstanding of culture that will enable the measurement of a wide range of cultural expressions irrespective of the particular economic social mode.

One Zambia, one nation : a case of the ethnographic approach of a multi-ethnic nation of Zambia at Livingstone museum

Phiri, Victoria | 2007
  • Author(s): Phiri, Victoria
  • Publisher: ICME etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, museology, cultural and social anthropology, ethnic and racial groups, exhibitions
This paper explores the ethnographic approaches of a new exhibition (2006) that draws on a theme showing a fragmented nation of 73 ethnic groups, yet interconnected in ways that are so deep it is difficult to paint a true picture of one without the other. And what can we learn for the future?

Finding your voice

Piacente, Maria | 2008
  • Author(s): Piacente, Maria
  • Publisher: Association for heritage interpretation (AHI)
  • Pages: 18--20
  • Keywords: museology, museums, aruba
This article is about the challenges of writing an interpretive strategy for the new National Archaeology Museum of Aruba.
 

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