How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our
understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic …

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary
cultural diplomacy. Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and …

This paper presents research on the dispersal of objects from the Museum of Economic
Botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (rbgk) from 1847 to 1914. Established by William …

Mattias Bäckström gidlunds förlag sekelskiftets skandinaviska folkmuseer skapade platser
som Skansen, Lyngby och Bygdø där besökarna skulle väckas ur sin råhet och föras in i ett …

Biocultural collections are a vital means of preserving, transmitting and generating
environmental knowledge and Indigenous knowledge. 1 Composed of botanical, zoological …

Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on Western Markets Bénédicte Savoy, Charlotte
Guichard and Christine Howald (eds.) Acquiring Cultures Page 2 Page 3 Acquiring Cultures …

ABSTRACT Today the British Museum (BM) entranceway consecrates imperialism and
patronage. Undertaken as a journey, this paper reclaims its invisible female, queer and …

Mattias Bäckström gidlunds förlag sekelskiftets skandinaviska folkmuseer skapade platser
som Skansen, Lyngby och Bygdø där besökarna skulle väckas ur sin råhet och föras in i ett …

The valuation and display of African art in museum contexts entails contrasting strategies of
objectification. In this process, objects may be used as material evidence for larger cultural …

Before the arrival of the first missionaries, Niuean warriors fought with stones carefully
modified for throwing. This practice, much feared by sailors and missionaries, became a …