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The Lives and Deaths of an Ethnographic Museum: History, Violence and Curatorial Collaborations in Guinea-Bissau
Get PDFThis article discusses the history of the National Ethnographic Museum of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) and an exhibition we curated about it in Bissau in 2017, which serendipitously led to its reopening. The Museum, which was created in 1988, had ceased to exist because of a civil war in 1998-99. Thanks to a reconstruction of contact prints in the archives of Bissau, we were able to organize an exhibition and to conduct research on the history of the museum. Methodologically, the article illustrates the potential of photography in museum historiography and revitalization. Thematically, it exemplifies the history of museography in West Africa from the mid-1980s through the 1990s, the role of museums in the creation of national heritage, and, by looking at the present situation of the Museum at stake, the fragile place that ethnographic museums have in the politics of culture in today’s Africa
Building Shared Guardianship through Blockchain Technology and Digital Museum Objects
Get PDFThis article considers the notion of shared guardianship in the context of digital museum objects and blockchain technology, arguing that this technology can contribute to the production of value in digital museum objects that goes beyond the monetary. Shared guardianship is understood to be a process of prioritizing the experience of others and forming a diverse set of stakeholders that transforms understandings around ownership; meanwhile, a blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology which can be used to identify digital files and so make them feel ownable and authentic. As such, this paper argues that blockchain technology could create a new layer of materiality and value in digital museum objects which could support the formation of shared guardianship. This question will be analysed in relation to the theoretical underpinnings of digital materiality and a case study project at the National Museums Liverpool, UK, which investigated how to implement blockchain technology in the museum context in order to produce collective ownership and meaningful, connected digital objects
Museums, Activism, and the Importance of Self-Reflection: Book Review Essay
No full textReview ofApsel, Joyce, and Amy Sodaro, eds. Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory, and Human Rights. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020, hardback £120, paperback £34.99, ebook £31.49, pp.232.Chynoweth, Adele, Bernadette Lynch, Klaus Petersen, and Sarah Smed, eds. Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2021, hardback £120, paperback £34.99, ebook £31.49, pp.214.Cole, Johnetta Betsch, and Laura L. Lott, eds. Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, hardback £61.41, paperback £25.29, ebook £21.67, pp.182
P4_3 A Ring of Power
Get PDFWithin this paper, we aim to model and calculate the maximum power produced by a circular platform around the Earth that is supporting several wind turbines. The power output of the construct is described as a function of altitude. It’s discovered that the maximum power that can be generated is approximately 0.14 GW
P5_5 Electric Vehicle vs Solar Panels
Get PDFThis paper investigates whether it is possible to recoup an electric vehicle’s charging costs by exporting solar energy over the same time-frame. It is found that it would take 13.11 days to export enough solar energy to break even against the costs of charging the EV
P6_7 A Shocking Destiny Awaits
Get PDFThis paper outlines the calculated values for specific heat capacity to allow the ability ”Chaos Reach” from Destiny 2 to be used by a Guardian, along with the total amount of Vex Goblins that can be vaporised from the use of this ability. The calculations were based from properties witnessed from ’true’ lightning, the pain threshold temperature of a human and the composition of the Goblins. It was found that the specific heat capacity of the Guardian is 3.40×10^14Jkg−1K−1 and the number of Goblins that can be vaporised by this ability is 14.9×10^6
P2_6 SubMariana
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to determine the physics behind travelling to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in an enclosed hollow steel sphere. It was calculated that for an outer radius of 1m, the sphere requires a wall of thickness 15.7 cm to withstand the pressure and would weigh an estimated 13.1 metric tonnes
A2_4 American Atlantis
Get PDFThis article assesses the impact on global sea levels if some of America's major coastal cities were to be submerged in giant underwater domes to protect them from flooding due to global warming. It was found that by submerging New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle and Miami, global sea levels would only rise by 3.61x10^-3 m (or 0.361 cm.
A1_3 Breaking the Broom
Get PDFIn this paper we have examined the forces that act on the broomstick in the children's book 'Room on the Broom'. We have calculated the maximum weight on a maple wood broomstick to be 83.33 kg. The ideal strength to support the witch and her friends was calculated to be 57 MPa