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Museum objects


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    • Musealia
    • Museum collections
    • Museum materials
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    • found: Work cat: Museum management in the digital era, 2022:(CIP galley (digital technologies impact museums' activities on two dimensions, the visitors' offer, i.e., online exhibitions, virtual tours and augmented technology-based experience, and the content management system through the creation of digital repository, including images, history of the object, conservation reports, exhibition texts, related publications, and physical location of the objects using RFID technologies, barcode or QR code; the process of digitalization of museums is carrying positive effects on cultural institutions; Many museums, heritage and other cultural institutions have been digitalising their collections for several years with an interest to promote them and offer open access to online visitors; 3D models tools that allow you to digitize objects three-dimensionally have given great support to museums especially as regards accessibility to the collections, making it possible to display substitute models of works too delicate or lost to be exhibited within museum itineraries or on the web (thus ensuring wide accessibility to scholars and experts who need to use the work remotely)) (DLC) 2021061515
    • found: British Museum Materials Thesaurus, viewed May 16, 2022:("Materials Thesaurus was initially compiled from index terms generated from computer records created using curatorial documentation and the objects themselves"; used objects to refer to the items owned by the museum, in general referred to as the museum's collection; materials referred to what the objects in the collection were composed of)
    • found: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, viewed May 16, 2022:How to cite museum materials (research materials, archival materials, collections, library materials, materials within the digitized collections)
    • found: Northern States Conservation Center, viewed May 16, 2022:Museum Materials Sample Booklet (materials used to refer to supplies used for conservation, not the items in the collection)
    • found: EVE Museology, viewed May 16, 2022:Museum object (or musealia; "A museum object is something which is musealised; a thing can be defined as any kind of reality in general."; an item in the museum's collection; naturalists and ethnologists use the term objects in their collection of items for research;
    • found: Isis, via jstor, viewed May 16, 2022:Vol. 96, No. 4 (December 2005), pp. 559-571 (13 pages) (title: Objects and the museum; history of museums written through biographies of objects in their collections; life of a museum object)
    • found: PSAP (Preservation Self-Assessment Program) website, viewed May 16, 2022:Museum Objects in General (common cultural heritage objects; object materials: ceramic, glass, stone, and metal; "term "object" refers to three dimensional materials outside the realm of audiovisual, photographic and image, and paper and book materials")
  • History Notes

    • [Established May 2022.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-05-16: new
    • 2022-05-26: revised
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