Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local
plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings …

O artigo busca evidenciar como o uso das tecnologias digitais facilita a organização e o
acesso às coleções e aos museus universitários. Por meio da análise dos casos de …

This chapter discusses how the use of photographs in the exhibition works to shape a story
of the colonial past, including Indies-Dutch collective memory. As its title indicates, The Story …

The “materials for a discussion” collection brings together, in an inclusive spirit, all the
contributions that have been sent in the form of short articles, to prepare the ICOFOM …

For several decades a decolonised museology has been manifest within Western museum
practice through, among other things, enhanced indigenous engagement with museums …

Based on fieldwork in Tahiti, Jasmin Günther (Guenther) traced the Polynesian artefacts
recovered from the wreck of HMS Pandora through time, space and cultural context. She …

The British vessel HMS Pandora sank in 1791 after a five-month search through Oceania for
the mutineers of the Bounty. After the rediscovery of the ship in 1977, over six thousand …

The opening of the World Cultures galleries in Edinburgh in 2011 marked the renewal of the
well-loved, much visited, and rebranded National Museum of Scotland, a museum that has …

This chapter addresses the transformative qualities of a collection object. In Dreams the
Heart, a sculpture in the form of a shield, by Danie Mellor was acquired by the National …