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Buying Power: Archaeologists as Dealers in Egypt and Sudan
Exhibitions and displays of Egyptian objects in museums across the world continue to inspire awe and fascination for millions of visitors. As museums tell the stories of the ancient world, they also tell their own collecting stories of how the objects came to be part of their collections. These narratives...Potter, Daniel
Dealers, Collections, Archaeology, Antiquities, Sudan, John Garstang, Edwin Ward, Charles Trick Currelly, Egypt, and William Matthew Flinders Petrie
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Conference paper (unpublished)
A Five-Star Model for Linked Humanities Data Usability
Middle, Sarah
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Confronting colonial histories and legacies in Egyptian and Sudanese collections at National Museums Scotland
Maitland, Margaret
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Journal article
Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: consideration of the legacy, ethics and aesthetics of previously restored Egyptian artefacts
National Museums Scotland’s (NMS) new permanent Ancient Egypt gallery project at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh gave an opportunity for current conservators and curators to collaboratively assess and evaluate historic conservation and restoration treatments. Restoration had been an integral element in transforming archaeological fragments from Egypt into museum...Stable, Charles ; Maitland, Margaret ; De Bellaigue, Diana ; Potter, Daniel ; Bryan, Bethan …
ethics, intervention, Egyptology, and history of conservation
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Conference paper (unpublished)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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Book chapter
Spices in the display environment
Unprocessed vegetable products such as spices are increasingly being introduced into museum displays that seek to provide a more accessible and not solely visual sense of other cultures and historical periods. Because of their aromatic nature, there is always the suspicion that such materials may emit damaging volatile organic compounds....Ogilvie, Ticca M A ; Carter, J F ; Evershed, R P
exhibitions, organic material, spice, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, plant material, volatility, and collections care
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Book chapter
What is in a 'national' museum? The challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland
Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. Museums and the Future of Collecting exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting...Taylor, Michael A
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Book chapter
Great expectations and modest transactions: art, commodity and collecting
By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting ‘difficult’ objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering...Lidchi, Henrietta
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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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Journal article
Forgotten gems: microphotographs as jewellery
Phillipson, Tacye
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Book chapter
Design-Archaeology: bringing a Pictish inspired drinking horn fitting to life
The Glenmorangie Early Medieval Research Project re-created objects from the period c.300-900AD in collaboration with artists,designers and makers. Contemporary skills and traditional craftswere used, informed directly from the archaeological evidence. This process of re-creation has brought these objects to life again, giving us insights into how they were made, experienced...Maxwell, Mhairi ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Gray, Jennifer
re-creation, design-archaeology, Authenticity, and Pictish-problem solving
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Book chapter
Foreword [Scottish photography: the first thirty years]
The souvenir book of the exhibition Photography: A Victorian Sensation at National Museums Scotland June-November 2015. It highlights objects in National Museum Scotland's history of photography collections and describes the public excitement over early photography.Lidchi, Henrietta
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Recycled Objects: Exhibiting Africa in Scotland.
Those acts of assembling, juxtaposing and exhibiting objects, which constitute the western museum, have themselves been conceptualised as artistic processes which produce the museum as a form of ‘public art’ (Hein, 2006). Such an holistic concept is fundamentally geographical: the place and placement of objects creating new aesthetic and discursive...Swinney, Geoffrey N