This thesis presents a study on how four Swedish university libraries use exhibitions as a tool for science communication. I describe the methodology of the exhibitions, how they differ between libraries, and how working with the exhibitions is experienced by the librarians and researchers involved. A smaller part of the study describes how the exhibitions have been made visible online and in social media. All the exhibitions have used a modified version of the five-step model created by Forskarnas Galleri at Malmö University. The exhibitions use a mix of media and tools to present the research. The exhibition experience has happened both synchronously and diachronously, i.e., the visitor has taken part of the knowledge both by visiting the exhibition and by taking part of the literature presented afterwards. Except for during the vernissage, the visitors have experienced the knowledge transfer through indirect mediation, as neither librarians nor researches have been present as permanent guides at the exhibition site during its tenure. Both librarians and researchers agree in their view that the universities see the exhibitions as something positive and worthwhile, and both groups see them as something positive for them personally. The librarians were more unanimously positive to using a more image-based language, while the researchers varied in their responses. Some were more apprehensive and worried that their research message would be altered if it was simplified. Both librarians and researchers expressed that they would have liked to do more with the exhibitions, for instance using them as backdrop for lectures or doing tours. There was a consensus between both groups that it was very hard to assess how many people had visited the exhibition, and what the visitor's view of the exhibitions were. The exhibitions were all visible online and in social media to some extent, but the results varied greatly with some exhibitions being very visible while others barely showed up. Overall, the bibliographic footprint of the exhibition was small, with no traces in an altmetric analysis and only half of the exhibitions being published as 'artistic output' in an open archive. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.

Bien souvent considérée comme un art immatérial, la littérature offre pourtant des traces bien visibles de son existence. Les maisons d'écrivains, les musées et les expositions littéraires ainsi que les parcs à thème constituent des espaces qui matérialisent la littérature. L'objet de notre thèse sera d'étudier ces différents dispositifs et d'interroger leurs liens avec la manière même de concevoir la littérature. / Often classified as an immaterial art, literature however offers real and visible tracks of its existence as evidenced by writers’ houses, museums and literary exhibitions spreading all over France. The increasing number of theme parks and the development of literary theme parks offer new interesting perspectives. In a multidisciplinary approach involving cultural history, sociology of literary practices and literary theories, the aim of this research work is to question the representations of literature conveyed by these literary spaces. This reflection results from the following paradox: what can be shown to evoke an art of words, only accessible in the act of reading?

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements of Master of Arts, Durban 2018 / This dissertation examines the social, cultural and economic significance of locally forged field-hoes, known as amageja in Zulu. A key question I have engaged in this study is whether gender-based divisions of labour in nineteenth-century African communities of this region, which largely consigned agricultural work to women, also affect attitudes towards the tools they used. I argue that examples of field-hoes held in eight museum collections form an important but neglected archive of “hoeculture”, the form of subsistence crop cultivation based on the use of manual implements, within the Phongolo-Mzimkhulu geographic region that roughly approximates to the modern territory of KwaZulu-Natal. In response to observations made by Maggs (1991), namely that a disparity exists in the numbers of fieldhoes collected by museums in comparison with weapons, I conducted research to establish the present numbers of amageja in these museums, relative to spears in the respective collections. The dissertation assesses the historical context that these metallurgical artefacts were produced in prior to the twentieth-century and documents views on iron production, spears and hoes or agriculture recorded in oral testimony from African sources, as well as Zulu-language idioms that make reference to hoes. I furthermore examine the collecting habits and policies of private individuals and museums in this region from the nineteenthcentury onwards, and the manner in which hoes are used in displays, in order to provide recommendations on how this under-utilised category of material culture should be incorporated into future exhibitions. / XL2019

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The history of Mormon Exhibits in world expositions is an important chapter in the over-all accounting of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints total missionary program. In seeking more proficient means for accomplishing this task, involvement in world expositions offered a fresh opportunity to which the Church quickly responded. Finances, inexperience, non-acceptance by the world religious community and struggle for security appeared to be significant obstacles to extensive activity in early world's fairs. Eventually as the Church strengthened, it became less the national spectacle and significantly was given its first real world's fair opportunity in an exhibit sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute at the 1909 exposition. The first totally religious Mormon exhibit was at Chicago in 1933 and the first Mormon pavilion was built for the 1935 San Diego Exposition. The Church has since sponsored five pavilions and has noted that from the standpoint of number of people influenced, compared to missionary man-hours expended, there has been no greater success experienced by the Church than in recent world fair involvements.

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Emotions are sometimes thought of as human universals, biological facts shared by everyone due to the place of emotions as a function of evolution. A competing theory of emotion has been developed in the field of the history of emotions, where emotions instead are thought of as less unstable historically variable categories. The field of history of emotions has contributed to a heightened interest in emotions in general, including in the places of emotions within museums and museum discourse. Emotions are not only thought of as instrumental in the service of a museum’s pedagogical or political goal but are also subjects of exhibitions in their own right. A first principle for the following work has been that museum exhibitions are discursive acts with narrative form. In this masters thesis, I have wanted to examine the ways in which museums exhibit emotions and their histories and to what extent exhibited emotion require certain curatorial considerations to function as meaningful narratives within the context of the history of emotions. Throughout, theoretical approaches are borrowed from the study of literature and from cultural studies to work toward this goal. Two case studies are carried out in which I consider the poetics of exhibition and the role this poetic plays for the interpretation of the two narratives as wholes. An exhibition about the role of the ultras type of football supporters in the uprisings of the Arab Spring was found to centrally place emotions as catalysts for ultras’ political action. The style of narrative was found to be contributing to the sharp division between implicit audience and the culture depicted that ultimately, it was argued, gave this exhibition a place within the discourse of Orientalism. The second case study was of an exhibition about the history of love, and analysis revealed a confusion of two theoretically competing meta-narratives of love within the narrative. A universal and ahistorical metanarrative of emotion was found to work against the foundation of the exhibition as historical narrative. From these two case studies, I draw the conclusion that curators wishing to exhibit emotions must carefully consider the structure of their narratives, both because of the role of emotion in self-understanding and because of the demands on a historical narrative of emotion. This is a two-year master’s thesis in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies.

本論文希望透過研究故宮博物院於1961年前往美國進行的「中國古藝術品展覽」，解釋今天故宮的特殊角色與定位。除了期望說明故宮代表中華文化的論述如何形成與建立，同時也解釋故宮如何透過展覽的陳列與解說，來呈現國家與國族的形象與想像。通過研究故宮發展、故宮藏品與國家政權之間的互動，對於文化藝術與權力之間的關係作更深刻的思考。 今天故宮不僅被視為中華文化的象徵，甚至將故宮藏品當成「國寶」。但是如果我們嘗試分析故宮藏品，不難發現這些文物僅是中國皇室收藏的珍奇異品。不過最近幾年，由於台灣社會、政治的變遷，故宮的獨尊地位開始受到挑戰。現任故宮院長杜正勝就質疑前任院長秦孝儀塑造故宮為華夏民族博物館的作法，否定台北故宮和北京故宮有前、後繼承的關係；並主張台北故宮的典藏政策不需要依循「國寶」的脈絡。由於這樣的質疑與轉變，使得故宮在中國文化上所代表的正統與典範地位，以及故宮和國家、政權之間的關係得以被重新思考。 今天，我們之所以認為博物館能夠傳達國族或文化的概念，主要正是因為博物館將收藏的文物「有意識」的重新加以排列展示，因而得以將國家、文化的發展脈絡，具體的呈現在人們眼前。國家對於藝術品的保存與展示，逐漸變成定義一個國家、文化傳統的重要媒介。展覽不僅呈現文化遺產，還進一步將國家發展歷史「展示」出來，經由重新脈絡化來宣揚國族與文化。例如日本過去經常藉由博覽會與展覽貶抑中國，並積極塑造日本成為「亞洲藝術遺產的守護者」。而故宮對外展覽，其實正是開始爭取中國對外形象的塑造以及發言權，甚至彰顯中國在東方藝術與文化上的重要地位。 因此本論文以1961年故宮前往美國五大城市舉行為期近一年的「中國古藝術品展覽」為例，探討故宮如何透過展覽的展示與解說，塑造中國國族的歷史與想像，同時建立中國藝術的「經典」，因此影響了西方對於中國藝術的論述與評價。這場展覽是中華民國政府播遷到台灣之後，國家級文物首次大規模的出國展覽。不僅由創辦《時代》（Time）、《財星》（Fortune）、《生活》（Life）等刊物的媒體鉅子亨利魯斯提出邀請，並出任贊助人。同時，中、美兩國元首擔任名譽倡導人，展覽期間更是備受官方與學術界的矚目。但此時世界局勢不穩，似乎沒有必要大張旗鼓安排故宮文物前往美國展覽。另一方面，由於中華民國與中華人民共和國政府互相爭奪正統，雙方都透過外交與司法途徑互相角力，爭取中國的代表權。如果中共借題發揮，這批參展文物極有可能被中華人民共和國政府收回，因此故宮赴外展覽的動作，格外引人矚目。 故宮博物院從建館以來，受限於經費及政治因素，對於收藏文物展示的時間並不長，研究工作也無從展開，只能偏重於清點工作。可是為了赴外展覽，必須編寫展覽目錄，勢必集合學者著手檢討文物的真假、年代與作者。也因為要對外展現「中國」，而必須對文物重新編排、解釋。因此，故宮赴外展覽確實是一個討論與觀察中國近代國族建構論述形成的特殊視角。故宮如何對外呈現、宣揚「中國」文化與藝術，其實正是具體展現故宮如何形塑與建構「中國」國族與文化的論述與想像。尤其是在前文所述的特殊歷史時空下，究竟展覽中呈現出怎樣的「中國」圖像，應該是一個相當值得探討的議題。因此，這個深受各方重視，又在敏感時機出國的展覽，如何選擇足以代表中國藝術與文化的作品，並以怎樣的方式展示，標示出民族國家框架下定義的中國，便是本研究試圖探討的議題。 本文希望強調故宮赴外展覽往往和國族形象的建構以及文化外交有密切的關係，因為展覽的特殊目的，因此影響了故宮在文化與藝術上的意義。也就是說，故宮今天獨特的地位和赴外展覽中的國族論述以及審美的展示方式有密切關係，而也正是因為故宮的特殊背景，賦予這些藏品更深的民族、國家意涵。 / The National Palace Museum has generally been considered as representing the culture of China and, for many years, the collection of the National Palace Museum was considered representative of traditional Chinese art. It has also been used by the Nationalist government in Taiwan as a symbol of legitimacy for the Republic of China. However, the society and politics of Taiwan have changed recently leading to an introspection for the foregoing opinions. The current director of the National Palace Museum, Tu Cheng-sheng, has questioned the transformation of the institution from the prototype of an imperial museum into a national art museum. Because attitudes about nations and cultures have changed, we can rethink why and how the National Palace Museum took on its role as representation of Chinese culture and the significance of its role in the history of modern China. Museums are important in shaping knowledge, in defining identities, and in representing culture. Since the late eighteenth-century in Europe, the modern museum has been a powerful apparatus for supporting the idea of the nation-state by exhibiting culture. Many recent studies on the establishment of the Louvre and other European national museums have demonstrated how these museums and their collection represent culture and establish canons through exhibitions. But in the past research, there has not been much discussion about how the National Palace Museum practices representation of culture through the images of art works displayed or exhibited in the museum. In 1961 The Chinese Art Treasures exhibition toured five major cities, Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. This exhibition of works from the National Palace Museum was organized on the invitation of the United States government for the purpose of instilling cultural understanding. At the same time, the exhibition was organized with a clear political agenda—to counter the threat from the Communist government who wanted to take back the collection. This paper will discuss how the exhibition The Chinese Art Treasures was used to define the Republic of China’s national sovereignty and to represent Chinese culture. The exhibition was held during the period when the conflict between the Republic of China under the Nationalist (the KMT) and the People's Republic of China over political legitimacy was the most heated and tense. This paper hopes to illustrate how the KMT employed the exhibition to proclaim the Republic of China’s firm stance in its claim of sovereignty over China and to demonstrate how the exhibition solidified the National Palace Museum’s role as the representation of the five thousand-year cultural legacy of China.

This thesis concerns the mediation of history in a public arena in society, namely in historical exhibitions in museums. The foci of the thesis are exhibitions on migration history, cultural encounters, “Us” and “the Others”, and in particular how relations based on the principles of class, gender and ethnicity are mediated. The research concerns two exhibitions – "Afrikafararna" (The Travellers to Africa) and "Kongospår" (Traces of Congo). In this thesis museums are viewed as arenas for public education and meaning-making. It explores how the historical contents as well as the forms of mediation in the exhibitions correspond to the task of promoting democracy that has been assigned to Swedish museums. This task is expressed in the intentions of the respective museums, in the general policies on culture and also in the policy documents for schools. Therefore the thesis also explores how pupils and teachers understand the mediation of history and use the museum as a source for learning. Exhibitions are regarded in this thesis as mediation processes of history. Three distinct phases can be seen in this process – the phase of production, the phase of mediation and the phase of reception. People connected to the different phases, such as curators, producers, museum educators, and pupils, have been interviewed. These interviews show how conditions, convictions and scope for action influence how the stories of migration and cultural encounters are told and understood. The contents of the exhibitions are analysed from a perspective of class, gender and ethnicity. Furthermore, the limitations and possibilities for the visitors to intensify their historical consciousness are discussed. The study shows how economic conditions and access to historical source material influence the way history is mediated, but also, and to a very large extent, convictions on pedagogy and concepts of history among museum staff. The latter two are determining factors when it is made clear that the way the historical source material is used results in the fact that history is mediated in a way that does not correspond to the intentions and goals to promote democratic values, such as equality, and active democratic readiness for action. The study shows that the exhibitions in question mediate patterns of subordination and asymmetrical relations between women and men and between Swedes/Scandinavians and Africans in their mediation of history. There are sometimes very distinct lines between “Us” and “the Others”. One of the exhibitions offers more space for individual meaning-making and reflection than the other, however, because of its problematization of the occurrence of African artefacts in Scandinavia and because there are more stories and more voices in the exhibition. The interviews with teachers and pupils show that the visits to the exhibitions are often isolated events that are rarely incorporated into the students’ education in a prolonged theme or perspective. Several students uncritically accepted the mediation in the exhibition, others were provoked and challenged, but the students had little opportunity to discuss these experiences in either the museum or in school. In summing up, several of the results of the analysis show that the mediation of history in the exhibitions cannot be described as corresponding to the demands of a democratic conception of education.

Notre étude porte sur la présence des artistes grecs(peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs) aux manifestations universelles et internationales qui se sont déroulées dans de différentes villes européennes, durant les quarante premières années du XXe siècle.Effectuée principalement aux catalogues officiels des expositions traitées, notre recherche a essayé d’appréhender l’activité artistique des hellènes, en la situant dans un contexte culturel international(expositions universelles et/ou internationales) et dans un cadre chronologique précis (1901-1939) ; pour ce faire, nous avons tenu compte des divers paramètres sociaux, politiques et intellectuels, qui ont régi deux réalités historiques et géographiques : d’un côté la Grèce, un état jeune dans toutes ses manifestations, et de l’autre côté l’Europe de la Grande Guerre, du progrès industriel et des avant-gardes. / Our study focuses on the presence of Greek artists(painters, sculptors, engravers) in the universal and international exhibitions, that took place in various European cities during the first forty years of the 20th century.Our research, which was principally carried out in the official catalogues of the presentations in question, attempted the approach and in-depth comprehension of the artistic activity of the Greeks, placed in an international cultural context(universal and international exhibitions in Europe) and in a specific chronological frame(1901-1939). For this to be achieved, we took into consideration the diverse social, political and cultural parameters that ruled two different realities; on the one hand, Greece, a “young” country in all it’s manifestations and on the other hand, Europe of the Great War, industrial progress and the “avant-garde”.