Museum Display Research Articles

James E. Talmage and the Selenite Crystals

James E. Talmage and the Selenite Crystals

3D Modeling and 3D Printing Technologies in the Preservation and Popularization of Architectural Monuments of the Vasilevo Museum-Reserve (Tver region)

The article presents the results of a project to create virtual models of architectural monuments of the Vasilevo Landscape Museum-Reserve in the Tver region with their subsequent 3D printing and creation of a large-scale layout. The Vasilevo Museum-Reserve is located on the territory of the Lviv estate of the XVIII-XIX centuries and includes manor buildings, as well as 16 monuments of wooden architecture of the XVIII-XIX centuries, brought and installed on the territory of the reserve of their various districts of the Tver region. Among them are objects of cultural heritage of federal significance: wooden temples, monuments of civil development. The museum is a branch of the Tver State United Museum and is included in the tourist route "Pushkin Ring of the Upper Volga region". As a result of the authors' project, virtual models and large-scale physical models of 19 architectural objects of the Vasilevo Museum-Reserve were made. Photogrammetry, polygonal 3D modeling, FFF 3D printing, and layout technologies were used in the work. The process of photographing to create a digital model using photogrammetry technology was carried out using a professional UAV and a SLR camera. The main software was Blender, Autodesk Meshmixer, Agisoft Metashape. The experience of digitizing objects has shown that photogrammetry makes it possible to capture fine details well in a computer model, which can be further reflected in large-scale models with 3D printing. In particular, these are wooden walls and ceilings of various designs, masonry, engraved images and inscriptions on stone. 3D printing was carried out on Creality Ender 3 and Creality Ender 5 3D printers. The printing material was polylactide plastic. The printed models were painted and reinforced in the form of a scale model. The finished model was transferred to the Vasilevo Museum and is used for museum display.

New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 1: Behind The Mask: African Art History in a Pandemic Era

New Masks, New Meanings: Covid Perspectives on African Art History: Part 1: Behind The Mask: African Art History in a Pandemic Era

The Impact of Emotional Interaction Design on Museum Displays

The Impact of Emotional Interaction Design on Museum Displays

Effects of four different methods of skeletal processing on the guinea fowl (Numida meleagridis).

The process of skeletal processing which involves soft tissues removal, bone cleaning, articulation and labelling is a fundamental step in achieving gross anatomical and archeological studies in museum display of skeletal specimens. It also helps to further highlight the functional anatomy of bones. Several methods of bone preparation have been practiced so as to achieve desired quality bone specimens in the shortest possible time with limited resources. To this end, this study was carried out on 16 (8 males and 8 females) helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagridis) a representative of the avian species using four different bone preparation methods (Burial, cold maceration, chemical and insect larvae) at 31ºc to determine the most suitable in this species. Dissection to remove feathers, skin and internal organs was performed prior to each method. Burial in soil took 14 days for complete bone recovery, turned the bones uniformly light brown while producing an indelible putrefying smell with no evidence of cracks on the bones. Cold maceration also took 14 days for complete bone recovery, however, the bones turned whitish, producing a strong putrid smell with no cracks on the bones observed. Chemical method using 3 concentrations of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) (2%, 3% and 5%) took approximately 10 hours, 8 hours and 4 hours respectively for complete cream coloured bone recovery with no odour but cracks were conspicuous on the bones with increasing concentration of sodium hydroxide. Use of insect larvae took approximately 4 months to produce non-uniform brown-coloured bones articulated via the ligaments having an unpleasant odour with no cracks. Considering the pros and cons of the effects associated with each method, this study concludes that the use of insect larvae was most suitable for a non-urgent bone recovery while the use of NaOH at 3% concentration was suitable for urgent bone recovery of the helmeted guinea fowl.

Poe in Richmond: Creating a Virtual Poe Collection

Poe in Richmond: Creating a Virtual Poe Collection

Application and Expression of Artificial Light Source Design in Exhibition Space

The window of culture has the functions of cultural inheritance and emotional education. As the key content of exhibition design, lighting is not only an effective way to create a good atmosphere for visitors, but also an effective way to improve the exhibition level. [Method/process] Lighting is the main factor affecting museum display. In order to maximize the effectiveness of exhibition, it is necessary to use lighting flexibly. [Conclusion] Through the research on the lighting design of the exhibition space of the museum, this paper analyzes the artistic effects and impacts of different forms of lighting, and on this basis, discusses the application principles and methods of lighting design in the exhibition design of the museum, so as to provide a theoretical basis for creating a display space that conforms to the visitors' cognitive behavior and can reflect the cultural connotation of the exhibits.

World War II Art Restitution Exhibitions


 
 
 Art history is about more than just the works of art that are currently on display in art galleries and museums. It is also about all the works that have been lost, stolen, or destroyed due to tumultuous chapters in human history. One of the largest chapters in human history to affect art history were the events of World War II. In order to help heal the wounds caused by this war, art historians and museum professionals across Europe and North America have dedicated their time to provenance research in order to begin processes of restitution. Two museums that have allocated time and money for provenance research and art restitution are the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. This paper will examine these two museums and the exhibitions that resulted from their provenance research, as well as their restitution and repatriation work. By exploring the efforts made by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, one is given a glimpse into how art historians and museum professionals can help make amends with those affected by tragedy.
 
 

Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections

Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico's National Collections

UI Design and Optimization Method for Museum Display Based on User Behavior Recommendation

In view of the lack of rich display methods in the display design of museums, it is impossible to enhance the interest of visitors. This paper proposes a museum object recommendation method based on collaborative filtering, which simplifies the display design, improves the recommendation effect, and alleviates the scalability problem. Firstly, the algorithm of recommendation system combines the advantages of memory collaborative filtering and uses smoothing processing to improve the efficiency of recommendation and achieve the best consistency. Then, the cross-domain collaborative filtering rating matrix generation model is used to establish the correlation between multiple rating matrices by finding the shared hidden clustering rating matrix, which also improves the recommendation effect. Finally, the conclusion shows that we can use single user behavior data such as forgetting mechanism to recommend to users. SVD makes full use of the interaction data of various behaviors, and NMF algorithm makes full use of the data of various user behaviors, which can effectively solve the existing problems. The stochastic gradient descent is applied to the SVD algorithm to accelerate the convergence speed of the model, improve the performance of the model, and effectively improve the accuracy of score prediction.

Science Fiction Worldbuilding in Museum Displays of Extinct Life

Science Fiction Worldbuilding in Museum Displays of Extinct Life

A Design Method of Virtual Folk Museum Roaming System Based on Visual Interaction Technology

The effective display of museums can greatly improve the attention of museums. The traditional museum display methods are old and old-fashioned. Aiming at the lack of vivid and immersive display in folklore museums, based on augmented reality technology and artificial intelligence, a virtual folklore museum roaming system based on visual interaction technology is proposed for 3D visualization of cultural heritage. The method applies the 6D pose estimation algorithm of objects to the display of museum objects. 6D pose estimation of objects refers to detecting objects present in an image and estimating their 3D position and orientation relative to the observer. In the field of augmented reality, 6D pose estimation is used to measure the pose of objects in the real environment and add virtual objects to it with the correct pose, thereby realizing augmented reality applications on the mobile side. The experimental results show that the 6D pose estimation method proposed in this paper has an accuracy rate of 93.3% and a running speed of 30 frames per second, which meets the needs of augmented reality applications and can be used in augmented reality museum display systems to provide them with vivid interactive content. Breaking through the time and space limitations of cultural heritage objects, it brings an immersive visiting experience to the audience.

Interactive Design of Museum Display Space Based on Virtual and Reality Technology

Virtual reality technology has brought new vitality to the display of museum exhibits. With the vigorous development of virtual reality technology, the application of virtual reality technology is becoming more and more frequent. Now, the application of virtual reality technology can be seen in many museums. This paper is aimed at using virtual reality technology to study the exhibition space and interaction design of museums. This paper proposes a virtual space display technology based on the octahedral projection method and hemisphere projection method and investigates and analyzes the application of virtual reality technology. Although the realism of the virtual display is not as good as that of the traditional display, it can be improved in terms of technology and other aspects in the future.

Contesting marginalization: diorama and tribal museum

ABSTRACT Many scholars have highlighted the role of scenographic strategies in transforming the ways in which museums display their content. In the course of this article, I want to focus on the use of dioramas in tribal museum display and their role in shaping the expectations and opinions of the visitor. This type of scenographic installation has been used in many museums in India devoted to showcasing the way of life of various tribes residing across the subcontinent. These museums were originally established in order to safeguard and promote the culture of tribal peoples who often find themselves marginalized in mainstream society and many contain life-size dioramas depicting scenes of everyday tribal life. The idea behind the installation of these dioramas is that they increased awareness among the general public about the specificities of the culture of different tribes. However, questions remain as to whether these scenographic installations succeed in providing context for the visitor to better understand the ideals and values of tribal life or whether they compound stereotypes. In this article I will look at the use of dioramas in different tribal museums across India and other parts of the world, but I will primarily focus on the dioramas in a tribal museum located in Delhi.

Preliminary Results of Shake Table Tests of a Typical Museum Display Case Containing an Art Object

The seismic response of freestanding elements is typically extremely critical, and this is associated with a high seismic risk in the case of museum objects and artefacts. This paper reports the preliminary results of an experimental testing campaign aimed at assessing the dynamic properties and the seismic performance of museum objects and artefacts. Shake table tests of a typical museum display case containing a representative art object (vase) are performed. Both dynamic properties and seismic behavior of the specimens were assessed. Tentative damage assessment correlations are developed. The study sheds light on the critical behavior of the tested specimens, stressing the need for further studies towards a more comprehensive assessment of freestanding museum objects and artefacts.

The history of vaccinology and hygiene through Achille Sclavo and the cultural patrimony conserved in the archives and museums: the key role of medical museology.

Over the centuries, the oldest universities have amassed an extraordinary patrimony of material and immaterial cultural assets, which have been created or acquired for the purposes of research or teaching. Now on display in museums, they testify to the evolution of knowledge and its diversification in various disciplines. In order to safeguard, conserve and study this precious heritage, we need to implement a cultural project that activates that "process of awareness" on which cataloging is based. This is a "reasoned awareness" that enables an object to be framed within a system of scientific knowledge and historical-critical relationships, which are essential to its conservation and, consequently, to its public exploitation. Through this process, we can uncover the history of an object, its characteristics and its uniqueness. This is the case, for example, of an optical microscope on display in the Museo di Strumentaria medica (Medical Equipment Museum), which is part of the Museum System of the University of Siena.

Жизнь, отданная науке. К столетию П. Б. Балданжапова

The purpose of the article is to briefly highlight the main milestones in the life of the famous Buryat scientist P. B. Baldanzhapov, to characterize his scientific researches in the field of Mongolian studies, to discover new, little-known aspects of his activities, to show his role in the development of new fields of science. Introduction. The article was presented as an introductory report at the IV International seminar “Written Heritage and current problems of the history and culture of the Mongolian peoples”, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Russian scientist, Mongolist and orientalist P. B. Baldanzhapov (1921–1991), held in Ulan-Ude on September 16–18, 2021. The source base was both published works and unpublished materials stored in the personal archive of the scientist, articles by researchers dedicated to the legacy of P. B. Baldanzhapov. When writing the article, general historical research methods were used, such as historical-comparative, retrospective and chronological, which made it possible to show the life and works of P. B. Baldanzhapov in the process of becoming from a student to a professional. Results. Professional interests of P. B. Baldanzhapov were quite versatile: from collecting and studying monuments of folk folklore, toponymic terms and their interpretation, collecting written monuments in Tibetan and Mongolian languages, what is evidenced by the unique collections of Tibetan and Mongolian works stored in his personal archive, numerous manuscripts of articles and materials on the history of public education, culture, science and librarianship in Mongolia and Tuva, on the history of preserving cultural heritage and organizing their museum display and popularization deposited in his archive, up to studying the Buddhist heritage and promoting its preservation, as well as sources on Indo-Tibetan medicine and many others. Nevertheless, the main passion of his whole life was the study of Mongolian historical treatises.

Heritage and territorial disputes in the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict: a comparative analysis of the carpet museums of Baku and Shusha

ABSTRACT On 27 September 2020, Azerbaijan went to war with Armenia on a scale not seen since the ceasefire of 1994. The conflict ended in another ceasefire on 10 November 2020, however, in addition to the theatre of war, the conflict has been prosecuted and continues to be fought post-ceasefire, through claims to cultural heritage which are employed in international organisations to substantiate the legitimacy of territorial claims. In this paper, we specifically focus on carpets and their display in museums to unpack the relationship between carpet as an instance of instrumentalised cultural heritage and the two countries’ territorial conflict and claims. Focusing on two major carpet museums in Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh (Shusha) and Azerbaijan (Baku), respectively, we will explain how ostensibly innocuous claims of cultural ownership and authenticity underline territorial claims with violent outcomes.

Archaeological monuments of Akterek as an open-air museum

The article presents the results of the analysis of the archaeological monuments of the Akterek, andthe assessment of their significance as an object of the historical and cultural heritage of Kazakhstan. Atpresent, the revival and preservation of the historical and cultural heritage is being actualized and acquiresspecial significance. In this regard, the authors aim to show the importance of one of the optimaland effective ways to preserve and popularize the historical and cultural heritage – museumification, etc.transformation of movable and immovable monuments of history and culture, as well as natural objectsinto objects of museum display. Thus, a museum monument will provide an opportunity to learn moredeeply and understand the historical roots of our ancestors, to restore the people’s historical memory.However, the most important thing in this matter is to give new life into the historical monument.The results of studies of the monuments of the Akterek, carried out archaeological expedition of theCentral State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2006-2021, are shown. Coupled with the resultsof earlier studies (in 1898-1988), proving that the monument is characterized by special uniqueness andrarity: several cultural and historical layers, including monuments from the sites of primitive people tomonuments of urban culture of the Middle Ages. The article also provides a historiography of the studyof archaeological monuments on the territory of the Akterek tract.Key words: archeology, burial mounds, settlements, petroglyphs, museumification, monuments,landscape, sacral.

What’s in a Label? Revising Narratives ofthe Decorative Arts in Museum Displays

What’s in a Label? Revising Narratives ofthe Decorative Arts in Museum Displays