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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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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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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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Objects as ambassadors: representing nation through museum exhibitions
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts...Knowles, Chantal
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Flight interception traps for arthropods
The idea for this book originated when planning, organizing and carrying out field work for the first All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory and Monitoring (ATBI+M) pilot sites established in the National Parks Mercantour and Alpi Marittime (France/Italy) in 2007, as part of the activities of the EDIT (European Distributed Institute of...Achterberg, C van ; Grootaert, P ; Shaw, Mark R