The Imperial War Museum's social interpretation project

This report represents the output from research undertaken by University of Salford and MTM London as part of the joint Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, operated by Nesta, Arts Council England and the AHRC. University of Salford and MTM London received funding from the programme to act as researchers on the Social Interpretation (SI) project, which was led by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and their technical partners, The Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, Knowledge Integration, and Gooii. The project was carried out between October 2011 and October 2012.

TEXTA Book Club in the QUT Art Museum

TEXTA runs as a type of book club that we have previously labelled as ‘bespoke’ (Ellison, Holliday and Van Luyn 2012). We visualise TEXTA as a meeting place between the community and the university, as a space for discussion and engagement with both visual art forms and written texts. In today’s presentation, we shall briefly establish the ‘bespoke’ bookclub. We then want to introduce the idea of TEXTA as an example of a book club that negotiates Edward Soja’s Thirdspace (1996) – a space that incorporates and extends concepts of First and Secondspace (or perceived and conceived spaces). In doing so, we showcase two recent sessions of TEXTA as case studies. We will then illustrate some ideas we have for expanding TEXTA beyond the boundaries of Brisbane city, and invite feedback on how to further extend the opportunities for community engagement that TEXTA can offer in regional areas.

The knowledge: a project by Boxcopy at Post-Museum, Singapore

‘The Knowledge’ was part of the Next Wave/Asialink project 'Invisible Structures: Australian artist collectives in Tokyo, Singapore and Yogyakarta' in January 2011. For this project, Brisbane ARI Boxcopy undertook a two-week residency at Post Musuem in Singapore. In this project, the Boxcopy artists Channon Goodwin, Joseph Breikers, Timothy P Kerr, Daniel McKewen, Raymonde Rajkowski, Tim Woodward, attempted to acquire an intimate knowledge of the city of Singapore by forming a free delivery company, The Boxcopy Publics Carriage Office of Singapore (BPCOS), which provided services around the city by foot, bike and public transport. In addition to committing to memory and documenting the streets and sites of Singapore, the BPCOS team also performed tasks such as delivering goods or messages, travel a particular route or visit a site, as requested by the people of Singapore. The project comprised this process of public interaction as well as an exhibition and website.

Israel Museum Jerusalem Coin

Obverse: Silver 5 Lirot coin. Replica of the capital and part of a pillar, of the 7th century BCE found at Ramat Rachel on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Reverse: A stylized relief of the buildings of Israeli Museum in Jerusalem.

Israel Museum Commemorative Medal

Obverse: ancient menorah. Reverse: Inscription, stylized buildings of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem around the rim.

Jerusalem City Museum Commemorative Medal

Obverse: Stylized design of the Tower of David. Reverse: The emblem of Jerusalem in the center, the word 'Jerusalem' in different languages.

Jüdisches Museum Wien‏ Collection 1915-1994

Printed materials about the first Jewish museum in Vienna, Austria, which existed 1895 to 1938. Also included is a biography about Maurice (Moritz) Bronner, curator at the museum 1910-1914, by his son, Felix Bronner. Folder 2 holds copies of 2 photographs of Maurice Bronner, circa 1910 and 1965.

El deseo de un exceso : la antropología como anhelo de un plus ultra: Hadewijch de Amberes y Adolphe Gesché en diálogo

Este artículo pone en diálogo a Hadewijch de Amberes con Adolphe Gesché, a través de una mediación antropológica. Ambos conciben al ser humano como constituido por un exceso, un plus ultra, una realidad que le viene de otro lado. Desde esta sintonía antropológico-teológico-mística, la opción de poner en juego a ambos quiere destacar la cercanía de pensamiento, de experiencia y de sentimiento que, como un puente, tensado sobre los siete siglos que los separan, los acercan de un modo sugestivo. Los extraordinarios y bellos poemas y escritos de Hadewijch, por un lado, y la sólida y atractiva teología de Gesché, por otro, se entrelazan con un objetivo común: asegurar la inefable dignidad del hombre pensante, sentiente, deseante, anhelante que sugiere a un “otro” que lo habita, que está más allá de toda realidad fáctica y al cual se intuye más que se define, se desea más que se posee, se apunta más que se nombra.

The pottery from A and C-Group tombs at Serra West in the Museum of Natural History, La Plata

Abstract: The Museum of Natural History, La Plata, Argentina, houses a ceramic collection of the A-Group and C-Group cultures from Nubian tombs at Serra West (AA and ACS cemeteries), on the west bank of the Nile in Lower Nubia. It has been originated from the division after the excavations made by the Franco-Argentine Archaeological Expedition in Sudan between 1961 and 1963, as part of the UNESCO campaigns to save the Nubian monuments.

Desborde y herida de amor en la poesía mística de Hadewijch de Amberes

La autora ofrece un estudio sobre la voz místico-poética de Hadewijch de Amberes, una de las representantes más destacadas del movimiento beguinense del siglo XIII. Su finalidad es la reconstrucción de la interioridad cristiana desde la estética medieval en proyección hacia nuestro presente a partir de las figuras del “desborde” y la “herida” de amor, por coincidir en ellas la mística medieval y la actual.

Ramesside, Late Nubian and christian pottery from Serra West in the Museum of Natural History, La Plata

Resumen: El Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata, Argentina, posee una colección de piezas cerámicas provenientes del asentamiento egipcio y de la iglesia de Aksha, y de las tumbas nubias de Serra Oeste, sobre la margen izquierda del Nilo en la Baja Nubia, que pertenecen a las culturas meroítica y del Grupo X. Esta colección es producto del reparto después de las excavaciones realizadas por la Expedición Franco-Argentina en Sudán entre 1961 y 1963, como parte de las campañas de la UNESCO para salvar los monumentos de Nubia.

Gestão museológica : questões teóricas e práticas = Museum management : theory and practice

Texto em português e inglês.