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Conference paper (unpublished)
Keeping natural history collections healthy: preventing deterioration in store and on display
Ogilvie, Ticca M A
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Neolithic lithic studies: what do we know, what do we want to know ? In, Flint and stone in the Neolithic period. Neolithic study group seminar papers, 11
Lithic artefacts were an intrinsic part of Neolithic life both in terms of everyday practical use and in ritual/symbolic mode. Archaeologists and prehistorians studying the Neolithic period recognise this, and accordingly, strive to maximise relevant data recovery and subsequently exploit the available data to the full. Fulfilling these ambitions requires...Saville, Alan
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'Jet’ manufacturing site at Portpatrick
Hunter, Fraser
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The circulation of museum objects
The paper discusses the spaces of production and use of a photographic image, depicting two African elephants and their human attendant, produced in the Royal Scottish Museum in 1907. The translation of the image and its appropriation into different material forms – as photographic print, half-tone newsprint illustration, and embellished...Swinney, Geoffrey N
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Coles's Covesea phase revisited: networks of contact in the Late Bronze Age of North-East Scotland
Cowie, Trevor
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Changing objects in changing worlds: dragonesque brooches and beaded torcs
Hunter, Fraser
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If mobile is the answer, what was the question?
Despite an ever-increasing urgency within institutions to deliver a mobile project, in the experience of National Museums Scotland and National Museum Wales, significant challenges exist in securing cross-departmental teams for these projects, managing internal expectations, and ensuring that the project is aligned with the institution’s core mission. To overcome these...Wallace, Hugh ; Tallon, Loic ; James, Dafydd
organizational systems, mobile, design processes, and digital strategy
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Collecting 21st-Century Science, Technology and Medicine in Scotland
On 6 June 2017 a group of museum professionals with shared interests in contemporary collecting science, technology and medicine assembled at the National Museum of Scotland to share best practice and lessons learned in this area. After presentations from some of those involved in Scottish collections, different perspectives were provided...Robertson, Haileigh ; Goggins, Sophie ; Alberti, S J M M