Insects of the family Dermestidae are common insect pests of museums and other sites where historical artifacts are displayed and stored. Trogoderma variabile (Ballion), the warehouse beetle, is a member of this family, and though it is more commonly associated with processed and finished stored food products, it can be found in museums. There are aspects relating to monitoring and control of T...

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The purpose of this paper is to explore how critical acts making during a participatory museum workshop and subsequent studio-based research-creation can inspire poly-vocal discourses around taxidermy as repositories complex histories. Centred on four animals display at the Redpath Museum, program research sough reanimate these reposition their context within space wider world beyond. Through c...

This paper, based on doctoral research carried out from January 2003 through July 2005, addresses the interpretation and representation of non-Western religious material culture in Western museums and offers a comprehensive view of the way traditional religious Yorùbá objects are displayed in contemporary museums in Britain. Museum exhibitions can be conceived as a visual narrative, which absor...

A team of staff and students at the Portsmouth School of Art, Design and Media came together to research the potential for interactive multimedia in museum programs to contribute to community regeneration. The project was part of the exhibition Play Up Pompey! which celebrates the centenary year of Portsmouth Football Club. The School's contribution was The Team in the Stand, a visitor-authored...

It is a discourse on two design strategies, “effective exhibition” (used in the metaphor of modernist museum) and “interpretative exhibition” (used in the metaphor of post-museum), for developing the exhibition and their effects on the visitors’ experience in a Natural History Museum. Both of the strategies are concerned about the communication model (team or visitors), concept hierarchy, visit...

The concept of "presence" is a major part of the discourse of VR. Creating a sense of presence can be crucial to the effectiveness of museum exhibits and VR presentations. Sound can play various roles in technology-based presentations, by creating or enhancing a sense of presence, and providing a continuity of experience. This paper discusses these points and how presence and sonic identificati...