Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Art History, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-361). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, August 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, 2003. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 9, 2004). Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219).

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M. Tech. Architecture (Professional) / This dissertation presents the proposal of a museum to map sensory experiences in central Pretoria where a sensory anthropology can be observed. This research project focuses on a sensory experience which provides a place of reflection and relief within the city and explores how the phenomenology of architecture can be preserved. The envisaged site is the existing ruin of the Capitol Theatre which is located on the immediate south western periphery of Church Square.

Thesis (MTech. degree in Architecture (Applied Design)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2012. / The aim of this thesis is to design an adaptive reuse, collaborative creative centre and public art gallery that is governed by a cultural institute, and financed by a corporate collaboration between the Johannesburg Development Agency and the Blue IQ. The design is intended to act as a catalyst to the city of Johannesburg and the Newtown cultural precinct, by injecting life and spirit back into the area, offering Newtown an opportunity to be in a constant state of activity and vibrancy, living up to its goal to be the cultural district of Johannesburg.

Seizing Civilization uses the Shanghai Museum as a case study to examine an extraordinary process of art appropriation that persisted from 1949 to 1996 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). At the heart of this story is the museum's destruction of the preexisting art market, its wholesale seizure of privately-owned antiquities, and its sale of these objects on the international market. My findings show that museum employees used these events to create public art collections in the PRC. The Shanghai Museum pioneered the techniques that Chinese museums use to transform craft objects, as well as select ancient paintings, ceramics, and bronzes, into canonized cultural relics. I argue that the application of these techniques explains the erasure of provenance at Chinese Museums, and demonstrate how state cultural institutions render acquisition ledgers, private collecting records, and connoisseurship disputes invisible. I examine cultural relics' transformation into Chinese cultural heritage in five chapters. I first demonstrate how museum employees appropriated private collections during nation-building campaigns such as the nationalization of industries (1956). Second, I investigate changes to the Chinese art historical canon, placing them in the context of art market takeovers, the wholesale acquisition of ethnic minority artifacts, as well as municipal programs in salvage archaeology. Then, in two chapters, I reveal the Shanghai Museum's active participation in antiquities confiscation and divestment during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976), which enriched public art collections on a previously unprecedented scale. I conclude with an examination of the mass restitution of expropriated property in the 1980s and 90s, which underpinned the museum’s dual function as both a preservationist institution, as well as a political and commercial enterprise. The antiquities and events I analyze not only explain the ascendency of a dominant narrative about Chinese civilization, but also reveal the limits, contradictions, and challenges of PRC national patrimony. / History

Darbo objektas – Sūduvos regiono muziejų etnokultūrinė veikla. Pristatomi didieji savivaldybių muziejai: Marijampolės kraštotyros muziejus (Marijampolė), Vilkaviškio (Paežeriai) ir Zanavykų (Girėnai) krašto muziejai, 3 privatūs ir 19 visuomeninių muziejų, esančių Sūduvoje. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti minėtų Sūduvos regione esančių muziejų edukacinę, etnokultūrinę veiklą, ją palyginti ir apibendrinti. Darbo tema aktuali tuo, kad visapusis žmogaus ugdymas privalo apimti visas žmogiškojo gyvenimo sritis, neišskiriant ir vienos svarbiausių – savo šaknų, papročių bei tradicijų išsaugojimo ir puoselėjimo. Šių dienų vaikai ir jaunimas nė neįsivaizduoja, kaip galima ne pirkti, o patiems išsiausti audeklą, nusivyti virvę, nusipinti pintinę, išsikepti duoną. Tėvai yra prigimtiniai ir nepakeičiami savo vaikų lavinimo veiksniai, šeimos užduotis – puoselėti etnokultūrinį mikroklimatą, perduoti tradicijų bei papročių paveldą. Todėl ir mokytojai, ir muziejininkai stengiasi padėti šeimai populiarinti ir išsaugoti etnokultūrinį palikimą. Darbą sudaro trys dalys: Įvadas, Bendroji Sūduvos krašto muziejų charakteristika bei Etnokultūrinės edukacinės veiklos organizavimas. Pirmoje darbo dalyje siekiama atskleisti muziejaus kaip mokslo įstaigos specifiškumą, aptariamos Sūduvos muziejų etnokultūrinio tyrimo prielaidos. Antroje darbo dalyje pateikiama bendra Sūduvos krašto muziejų charakteristika, pristatomi didieji savivaldybių muziejai.Trečioje darbo dalyje kalbama apie edukacijos muziejuje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The object of this work is ethnocultural activity in the museums of Sūduva. The largest museums of the local administration are talked: The ethnography museum in Marijampolė, the museums in Vilkaviškis (Paežeriai) and Zanavykai (Girėnai), 3 private and 19 public museums that are in Sūduva. Purpose of this work is to analyse the educational, ethno-cultural activity in the mentioned museums, compare and summarize it. Theme of this work is actual because of that the upbringing of the human being must include all spheres of human life, not excluding one of the most important one – maintaining and cherishing your customs, traditions. Nowadays children, youth cannot even imagine how not to buy, but to weave the cloth, bake the bread and etc. by themselves. That is why teachers and people who work in the museums try to help the family to popularize and to maintain the ethno-cultural heritage of the past. The work contains three parts. In the first one author seeks to reveal the peculiarity of the museum as the institution of science, the ethno-cultural premises of the research of Sūduva museums are talked. In the second part of the work the general characteristics of Sūduva museums is presented. In the third part of the work the peculiarity of education in the museums, the experience of preparing the displays are analyzed. Mostly the educational programs, the methods of preparing it are analyzed in this work. The methods of this work are interview, descriptive, statistic and... [to full text]

Muziejinė edukacija Lietuvoje sėkmingai vykdoma jau dešimt metų. Aiškiai matyti Lietuvos nacionalinio ir Lietuvos dailės muziejų efektyvumas, darbo kokybė ir pasiekimai edukacijos srityje. Šių muziejų veikla orientuota į edukaciją, kuri atitinka pasaulines muziejų tendencijas. Akcentuodami jos svarbą visuomenėje ir naudodami edukacinės veiklos formas, šie muziejai sprendžia augančios kartos auklėjimo ir lavinimo klausimus bei neformalaus ugdymo uždavinius. Kurdami naujas metodikas ir programas, pritaikytas skirtingoms lankytojų grupėms, realizuoja svarbiausias muziejų edukacijos funkcijas. Lietuvos nacionalinis ir Lietuvos dailės muziejai kryptingai formuoja savo edukacinės veiklos turinius, kurie atitinka jų apibrėžtas misijas ir strategijas. Edukacinė veikla kasmet tampa nacionaliniuose muziejuose vis platesnė ir įdomesnė. Šie muziejai gali įtakoti kitų muziejų dukacinę veiklą bei būti jiems efektyvaus mokymosi būdo modelio pavyzdziu. Lietuvos nacionalinio muziejaus edukacinės programos yra istorinio pobūdžio. Jų tematika susieta su Lietuvos istorija ir etnine kultūra. Akivaizdu,kad pasitelkus edukacines programas stengiamasi perteikti žmogiškąsias vertybes, stiprinti tautinį tapatumą.. Lietuvos dailės muziejus,pasitelkdamas sukauptų meno kūrinių siužetus, tematikas, realizuoja muziejinės edukacijos tikslus,sėkmingai kūria ir pritaiko skirtingoms lankytojų grupėms naujas metodikas ir programas. Nors Lietuvos nacionalinio ir Lietuvos dailės muziejų vertybių rinkiniai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The museum-based education is being successfully implemented in Lithuania for ten years already. The effect, high quality and achievements of the activities of Lithuanian National Museum and Lithuanian Art Museum in the sphere of education are evident. The activities of the said Museums are oriented to education that conforms to the trends usual for world museums. Stressing its importance for the society and using various forms of educative activities, the Museums settle various problems of education and training of the young generation as well as solve tasks of informal education. In course of developing new methods and programmes, they implement the principal functions of the museum-based education. Lithuanian National Museum and Lithuanian Art Museum purposefully form the contents of their educative activities that conform to their determined missions and strategies. The educative activities at national museums becomes more wide and interesting annually. The educational programmes of Lithuanian National Museum are the ones of historical character. They are bound with Lithuanian history and ethnic culture. It is evident that they are helpful in conveying the human values and strengthening the national identity. Lithuanian Art Museum implements the goals of the museum-based education using the stocks of its artistic works, successfully develops new methods and programmes applying them for various groups of visitors. Although the collections and expositions of values disposed... [to full text]

This thesis is an analysis of the rural ideal as it resonates through exhibition at local county museums in southern Ontario. This study brings attention to the potential for museums to perpetuate the rural ideal through the manner in which they frame artifacts and create historical displays. Through a combination of a through historiography which features public history, museums, and rural history, this thesis argues that museums work in a similar manner as text or images to identify with an ideology. Utilizing the Wellington County Museum and Archives as a case study, exhibits of the institution are deconstructed to demonstrate their association with the ideal and the potential influence this may possess on audiences.