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Until wonder is welcomed in all workplaces, the health of our society and our capacity to imagine new alternatives is contingent on the ability to experience and refine wonder in artistic spaces.
Whether it’s a day out with the kids or a solo visit, these tips will achieve the experience you want.
The Chichu Art Museum, on the Japanese island of Naoshima, is a breathtaking place to rethink the relationship between nature and people.
The mass production of religious items such as rosaries and holy cards poses a problem for the curators of religious artifacts at libraries and museums. How do you dispose of unwanted donations?
Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn’t cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.
Media coverage of the recent Dr. Seuss controversy are rooted in both a lack of awareness of the challenges and realities of maintaining collections and a false understanding of history.
The proposal that monuments must be preserved at any cost hinders rather than helps institutions handle the decolonisation of their collections.
Do you see a fearsome predator? A fragile icon of impending extinction? What these arctic giants have stood for in art has continually evolved.
New research shows COVID-19 threw existing inequalities into sharp relief: well-funded institutions were able to move their projects online, while smaller galleries struggled.
Emerging ‘mixed reality’ technology promises to bring history back to life.
Specimen preservation means researchers don’t need to reinvent the wheel each time they ask a new question, making it critical for the advancement of science. But many specimens are discarded or lost.
A spear-thrower, a shell, a bowl, a vase, a bucket. Five very different items tell us much about the history of collecting, the role of Indigenous experts and the shadow of colonial violence.
How museums can reimagine themselves in the context of the climate crisis.
Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains belonging to an enormous ‘toothed’ bird that lived for a period of about 60 million years after dinosaurs.
We surveyed 1461 Australians and discovered many are museum regulars — but it’s family history that has broad appeal.
Microfossils offer up an array of information to scientists, like the time periods in which they lived and how environments have changed.
Too often in conversations about cultural centres, the incredible resources already available are neglected.The Berndt Museum, in Perth, is a collection of national and international significance.
Museums around the world have been grappling with the issue of diorama removal.
Understanding the different types of visitors and how they navigate museums can help these institutions reopen safely.
Top contributors
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Tourism, University of Nigeria
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
