International Conference Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 20 - 22 April 2017Museums and (the Loss of) the Encyclopedic Ideal, 1785-2016

Today the role of the museum institution is often questioned and consumed by crises of meaning, funding, and relevance. Within the European context the economic crisis resulted in major budget-cuts in the public spending, which also affected artistic and cultural public funds. It has been thus increasingly …

This study is commissioned by OCLC to research the interest of customers of OCLC in hosted services. OCLC is a worldwide organisation that provides software and services to libraries in 170 countries. Libraries use these management systems to optimize their workflow. OCLC endeavours to satisfy the needs …

Queering the Collections is sinds 2014 een platform van musea en archieven die seksuele en genderdiversiteit in publieke collecties beter zichtbaar willen krijgen. Het is ook de naam van dit verslag van het eerste internationale congres over dit onderwerp in 2015. Vergezeld van een mini-lexicon met ‘regenboogwoorden’ …

Kunnen universele musea nog wel, vandaag de dag? Met hun autoritaire neutraliteit, modernistische inrichting, harde objectiviteit? Dat was de vraag die Indiase kunsthistorica Kavita Singh stelde tijdens de Reinwardt Memorial Lecture op 4 juni 2014. De gelegenheid was de viering van de 241ste geboortedag …

Since its founding in 1997, MAMA has taken a pioneering role in the field of visual arts talent development. By focusing on the experiences of leading educators and cultural organisers, this publication looks at how different institutions (museums, higher education, presentation platforms) apply these …

In this paper we discuss the general approach and choices we made in developing a prototype of a social media monitor. The main goal of the museum monitor is to offer museum professionals and researchers better insight in the effects of their own social media usage and compare this with other actors …

The main question for my work field in museum education is: How can a white rabbit-dynamic be initiated for interpretation in art education for museums? In order for that to make sense and to structure my quest I will try to find answers to the following sub-questions: Why does the White Rabbit have …

Full text via link. This paper focuses on the use of online social tagging and storytelling to enrich digital collections of cultural heritage. Together with several Dutch museums, we examined the question of whether and how social tagging could benefit these museums in disclosing specific digital collections. …

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