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Game|Life - Inside the Library at the National Museum of Play

The library at the National Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., boasts a rare collection of strategy guides, designs, and background materials from old-school video games. Chris Kohler takes a look at the original documents from classic games, including Wizard and the Princess, Mystery House, and King’s Quest II.




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Game|Life - Atari by Design and More Highlights from the Lab at the National Museum of Play

At the National Museum of Play, Chris Kohler visits an exhibit all about classic video game maker Atari, and he gets hands-on inside the museum’s lab of rare games.




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What Remains - The 9/11 Museum

Creating a memorial from the ruins of 2,983 lives: that's the difficult task faced by the creators of the 9/11 Museum. On the eve of its opening, we speak with director Alice Greenwald and designer Jake Barton about how to commemorate a tragic experience without recreating it. Music: "Sun Will Set" written performed by Zoe Keating From the album - One Cello x 16: Natoma (c) 2005 020202 Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved




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WIRED by Design - These Incredible High-Tech Exhibits Are the Future of Museums

Jake Barton at WIRED by Design, 2014. In partnership with Skywalker Sound, Marin County, CA. To learn more visit: live.wired.com




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Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn’t Nuked

Welcome to the Institute of Illegal Images, San Francisco's museum of LSD blotter paper art.




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The SFMOMA’s New App Will Forever Change How You Enjoy Museums

The renovated SFMOMA is now one of the most considered gallery spaces in the world. But it's not just the museum that got a redesign. The SFMOMA has also reimagined the audio tour experience with it’s new app.




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Inside the Room Housing 46 Million Museum Specimen

Only 2 percent of the California Academy of Sciences’ specimen are on display. The other 98 percent are in environmentally controlled storage. This is how they go from salvage to research specimen.




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A Virtual Tour Inside the Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Museum

Let us pray that organization expert Marie Kondo never comes within spitting distance of A Boy’s Room, part of the Studio Ghibli museum’s Where a Film is Born installation. It’s not likely that every single item in the massive (and no doubt well dusted) collection of books, postcards, hand tools, pictures, figurines, and other assorted tchotchkes pictured above […]

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The Rijksmuseum bulletin [electronic journal].

Amsterdam : Rijks-Museum, 2009-




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Genetic management of fragmented animal and plant populations / Richard Frankham (Macquarie University and Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia), Jonathan D. Ballou & Katherine Ralls (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA), Mark D.B. Eldri

Frankham, Richard, 1942- author




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LIGO spots merging neutron stars, scholarly questions about a new Bible museum, and why wolves are better team players than dogs

This week we hear stories about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s latest hit, why wolves are better team players than dogs, and volcanic eruptions that may have triggered riots in ancient Egypt with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Sarah Crespi interviews contributing correspondent Lizzie Wade about the soon-to-open Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. Can it recover from early accusations of forgeries and illicitly obtained artifacts? Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Public Domain; Music: Jeffrey Cook]  




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A history of the world in 100 objects : from the British Museum / The British Museum, Western Australian Museum, National Museum of Australia




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Report on the 2007 Western Australian Museum, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Batavia land sites National Heritage listing archaeological survey / edited by Corioli Souter with contributions by Ross Anderson and [four others]




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Coronavirus: Pune-based cricket museum buys Azhar Ali’s auctioned bat and jersey to raise funds

The Pakistan Test captain had put his bat used to score triple century in a day-night Test and Champions Trophy 2017 jersey up for auction.




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The American Museum of Natural History and how it got that way / Colin Davey with Thomas A. Lesser ; foreword by Kermit Roosevelt III

Barker Library - QH70.U62 N485 2019




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Museum Practice


 

MUSEUM PR ACTICE Edited by CONAL MCCARTHY

Museum Practice covers the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of all types, including the core functions of management, collections, exhibitions, and programs. Some forms of museum practice are familiar to visitors, yet within these diverse and complex institutions many practices are hidden from view, such as creating marketing campaigns, curating and designing exhibitions, developing



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Museum Theory


 

MUSEUM THEORY EDITED BY ANDREA WITCOMB ANDKYLIE MESSAGE

Museum Theory offers critical perspectives drawn from a broad range of disciplinary and intellectual traditions. This volume describes and challenges previous ways of understanding museums and their relationship to society. Essays written by scholars from museology and other disciplines address theoretical reflexivity in the museum, exploring the contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic ways museums



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Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization


 

MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION

Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES ANDRUTH B. PHILLIPS

Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist



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Museum Media


 

MUSEUM MEDIA Edited by Michelle Henning

Museum Media explores the contemporary uses of diverse media in museum contexts and discusses how technology is reinventing the museum. It considers how technological changes—from photography and television through to digital mobile media—have given rise to new habits, forms of attention and behaviors. It explores how research methods can be used to understand people's relationships with media technologies and



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'So that you might know each other' : faith and culture in islam : collections from the Vatican Anima Mundi Museum and the Sharjah Nuseums Authority and the National Museum of Australia




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Reinventing the propeller: aeronautical specialty and the triumph of the modern airplane / Jeremy R. Kinney, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Hayden Library - TL705.K56 2017




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Representing the nation: heritage, museums, national narratives, and identity in the Arab Gulf States / edited by Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Victoria Penziner Hightower, and Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla

Rotch Library - AM79.4.R47 2016




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Cosmology to cartography: a cultural journey of Indian maps: from the collections of Kalakriti Archives, Hyderabad and National Museum / Vivek Nanda, Alexander Johnson

Rotch Library - GA1131.C67 2015




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Rajasthani paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art / edited by John Seyller ; essays by Milo Cleveland Beach and four others

Rotch Library - ND1007.R3 R35 2015




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Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, and Museums-in-Exile / edited by Kristine Khouri & Rasha Salti

Rotch Library - N72.P6 P37 2018




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Mediating museums: exhibiting material culture in Tunisia (1881-2016) / by Virginie Rey

Rotch Library - GN36.T8 R49 2019




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Albert Hotz's Iranian legacy: images from the Hotz's Photographic Collection of Leiden Museum, the Netherlands & Institute of Iran's Contemporary History Studies / Hamid Reza Norouzitalab

Rotch Library - DS272.N68 2019




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Museums, emotion, and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey / Gönül Bozoğlu

Rotch Library - AM79.T8 B69 2020




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Pharmacist's hobby becomes a museum




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Cedar Key Museum tells exciting story




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., northeast view




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., west view




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., northwest view




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., east view




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., interior view, looking east




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., second level, looking east




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Museum of Science and Industry building, Tampa, Fla., second level, looking west




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Collection Merlin, Athenes. Head in the Eleusis Museum




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Pier with Spa, Museum of History, other structures seen from Tampa Bay; many birds




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The Beal Marble Shell Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla




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Inner court of Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida




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Corner of Court of Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida




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Black swans, Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota Florida




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Gateway at Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida




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Night time scene in inner court of Ringling Art Museum




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Court showing David statue, Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida




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Inner court of the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida




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Black swans, Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida




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Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Fla




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Ringling Art Museum, between Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida