13,618 research outputs found
Spolia Zeylanica 8 (1913)
No full textColombo Museum. (1913). Spolia Zeylanica. Volume VIII. Colombo: H. M. Richards
IN03203 Colombo Museum Fragmentary Pillar Inscription
No full textIN03203 Colombo Museum Fragmentary Pillar Inscription - Transcript and Translation
Source: Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 32. A Fragmentary Pillar-Inscription in the Colombo Museum,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 246–252
Joe Colombo and the emergence of the Italian furniture industry
No full textThe paper describes the relationship between the designer and the growing Italian manifacturers after the second world war in order to identify whether there has been a focused methodology which could be later developed (part of the Vitra Museum travelling exhibition on Joe Colombo
IN03140 Colombo Museum Pillar Inscription of Kassapa IV
No full textIN03140 Colombo Museum Pillar Inscription of Kassapa IV - Transcript and Translation
Source: Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 28. Colombo Museum Pillar-Inscription of Kassapa IV,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 270–277
British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 1
No full textIt is with great pleasure that I write a brief introduction to BMSAES 1 (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan), which is being launched as originally intended in January 2002.
Electronic publishing is still rather in its infancy, although, as always, we in the humanities lag some way behind our scientific colleagues. However, use of the Internet is now an accepted means of scholarly communication and information retrieval amongst those who study Egypt and the Sudan the world over, and indeed, it is often easier for our colleagues in the two countries whose ancient cultures we study to access material in electronic rather than printed form.
Over the past few years we have seen a number of the principal 'tools of the trade', such as the AEB and the Wörterbuch, go online, as well as there now being web pages for most institutions that house collections of objects or teach the subjects. It is now time for publishing to go online, and we have already seen the successful appearance of Internet Archaeology in the UK and of IBAES in Germany. The British Museum now joins the online publishing community with BMSAES.
Publishing online has its advantages and disadvantages. Coming to terms with the technology and being taken seriously by colleagues are perhaps the main disadvantages, but the advantages far outweigh them. Print is becoming ever more expensive, and delays in the appearance of traditional journals seem to get ever longer with the multitude of pressures on the editors. With online publication, backed up by proper peer review, it is possible to bring up-to-date quality research to readers the world over in a matter of hours; as an example, the last paper to be put into the present issue of BMSAES arrived in its final form around noon on the day before launch and was on the website for the author to proof-read two hours later.
Nowadays, publication in accredited online journals is accepted in assessments of research in museums and universities. While publication in print will remain for many projects the only suitable method, much research can profitably appear more quickly and meaningfully via electronic media. We will all watch developments with interest.
Nigel Strudwick
Contents:
Cataloguing the Internet, or how I found it in the catalogue in my library (Diane Bergman)
The Middle Kingdom Stelae Publication Project, exemplified by stela BM EA 226 (Detlef Franke)
Hieratic Inscriptions from the Quarry at Qurna: an interim Report (Shin-ichi Nishimoto, Sakuji Yoshimura, and Jiro Kondo)
Kushite buildings at Kawa (Derek Welsby
Comparative research into the museum governance systems of national museums in the UK and Taiwan
No full textThis research is a pioneering study focusing on the museum governance system.
Governance in museums has been under-researched; however, recent disputes and
development have drawn the public’s attention to this subject. Furthermore, there
is still no proper theory or model to explain the decision- and policy- making process
in museums. Regarding the scope of this thesis, a focus on national museums of
the UK and Taiwan has been chosen because of their historical similarities. A
literature review was conducted to aim at answering the question of ‘what is
governance?’, including its definition and theories, not only in the private sector, but
also in the public and non-profit sectors. Museum governance has been identified
and compared with the application of marketing and management as well as
museology. It was also significant to investigate the historical development of
museum governance in the two selected countries. It has enabled the author to
find out the most influential factors in the governance systems of museums and
create a preliminary model. Six national museums were selected as cases and three
trips of fieldwork were achieved in a period of more than a year. A background
analysis of each case provided a fundamental understanding of their history,
organisational structure and importance. Data collected was later analysed in
detail and compared, to understand governance practices as well as to test the
proposed model. This has proved that the Interactive Model of museum
governance helps to explain the governance process in the museum; however, a
minor change has also been made to refine this model. A further literature review
was conducted to update the information and also to ensure the originality of this
research. There are some suggestions for future research on this subject, and it is
the hope of the author to have widened interest in museum governance both in
academia and among museum professionals
Heritage representation in culturally diverse societies : a case study of the Colombo National Museum in Sri Lanka
No full textThis thesis constitutes the first critical analysis of representation in the Colombo
National Museum. It is also the first museum studies doctoral thesis to emerge from
and address Sri Lanka. In addition to outlining the historical and modern day contexts
of the Colombo National Museum, its displays are analysed in relation to Sri Lanka’s
cultural heritage and contemporary cultural diversity.
Representation of identities and histories is a complex and potentially sensitive issue in
national museums in heterogeneous societies. Displays within national institutions are
often subject to criticism as a result. Museums in Sri Lanka started with the colonial
establishment of what is now the Colombo National Museum in 1877. Moreover, the
country has a convoluted history, particularly since independence, of ethnic tensions
and civil war.
The thesis delineates the histories and distribution of ethno-cultural and religious
groups within Sri Lanka, and indicates interactions and conflicts between them. It also
summarises the history of and issues within museums in Sri Lanka.
Using a case study approach, the core of the thesis describes and analyses research
undertaken within the Colombo National Museum. A databank summarising the
numbers of objects affiliated with different Sri Lankan groups, was compiled. Object
affiliations were identified through museum ascriptions, archaeological, historical and
contemporary data, and the artefacts’ inherent characters of signification. Quantitative
analysis of this databank, together with the author’s development of the notion of
‘cultural quality’, was used to critically interpret the permanent displays, producing an
assessment of the degree of cultural representation in the museum. The objects in the
store collections are also taken into consideration when discussing the fairness of the
representation. Through the findings, the author suggests a new display framework
potentially applicable to the Colombo National Museum in order to facilitate a more
equitable representation of Sri Lanka’s heritages and cultural identities
Helminthes from the collection of the Colombo Museum
No full textVolume: 3Start Page: 163End Page: 18
Stalked barnacles (Cirripedia pedunculata) in the Colombo Museum
No full textVolume: 3Start Page: 193End Page: 19
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