The widening of roles and expectations within cultural policy discourses has been a challenge to museum workers throughout Great Britain (GB). There has been an expectation that museums are changing from an ‘old’ to a ‘new museology’ that has shaped museum functions and roles. This paper outlines the limitations of this perceived transition as museum services confront multiple exogenous and end...

Defining a physical or virtual space as a museum, seems to have clear implications on visitors’ behaviour and particularly learning behaviour. Past research shows that it is essential to identify different museum types and consider their similarities, differences and special features in order to be able to make valid research hypotheses. However, visitors would not always define certain types o...

A cultural institution such as a museum needs to attract visitors. Due to the fact that Internet has become an important information and marketing channel, the question of using a VR museum on the Internet, is the topic of this paper. The “VR Kon-Tiki” is a VR museum. It was developed by a computer games technology. In order to test the application visitors to a national Travel Fair, and visito...

This thesis introduces the concept of living exhibitions: continuously evolving museum exhibitions that are cooperatively developed and evaluated by teams of museum professionals and visitor representatives. The author argues that the living exhibition design process should draw its inspiration from multiple resources, including current research on museum learning, interaction principles and te...

This paper explores the gap between museum policy and practice in the United Kingdom (UK) by offering empirical evidence from a comparative street-level analysis of museum services in Scotland, England and Wales. Exploring devolution in cultural services from the ground-level using Lipsky’s (1980) ‘street-level’ approach gives new insights to the role of groundlevel workers in cultural policy. ...

abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...

We describe the prototype of an interactive, web-based, museum artifact search and information service. Mo Músaem F́ıorúil clusters and indexes images of museum artifacts taken by visitors to the museum where the images are captured using a passive capture device such as Microsoft’s SenseCam [1]. The system also matches clustered artifacts to images of the same artifact from the museums official...

The use of the term "virtual" is commonly associated with the idea of an extension of reality. Similarly, the expression "virtual museum" is usually adopted to mean a process of duplication of a physical museum and its objects that is enabled by information technologies. Therefore, "virtual museum" has become a useful synonym for multimedia products and websites capable of providing new and fre...

museum sees its mission as extending beyond the Zambezi to all of Africa: “Museum Africa is not about revisionist African history written by biased Afrocentric writers . . . rather, it is a journey back to the glory years of the African continent’s past.” Byala does an admirable job of setting this history in terms of contemporary museological theory. Following Michel Foucault and Jacques Derri...

As museum exhibition become technically complex and design teams more specialised and fragmented, the need to plan and co-ordinate the design process with greater quality is becoming important. According to previous research of museum studies, traditional object-based displays are being replaced by multi-disciplinary technology -based exhibits in science museums, therefore, a specifically multi...