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were returned to the Netherlands. According to Siegal and Povoledo: The burglars climbed to the roof using a ladder, broke through a window, stole the two works and then escaped out the side of the building using a rope... The Italian prosecutors’ office said that the works had been recovered during an investigation of the Amato Pagano clan of the Camorra Mafia family… One of the gang members arrested in January told the police that the two paintings were in a house in the town of Castellammare

anecdotal oral history and cannot be verified through documentation. Within the last twenty years, the controversial nature of human tissue specimens within museum collections has sometimes led to their disposal, and the erosion of technical conservation skills relating to this particular type of collection. The UCL Pathology Collection has in recent

exhibition, whilst allowing counter-narratives and alternative readings to exist. THE PRELIMINARY PROCESS Working with an established collection – like The University of Auckland Art Collection, curators need to work creatively in order to produce an exhibition that is both innovative and adequately represents the collection. The University of Auckland Collection includes approximately 140 photographs that are situated around the various campuses and storage facilities. With such a range to choose

1.2. Re-thinking Museums The second part of chapter one discusses the ways digitization is changing the face of museums and archives, in terms of the ways they curate device collections. This unprecedented and continuous shift has left many cultural institutions struggling to adapt and are forcing them to rethink how to maintain their unique qualities while at the same time adding value. Today, no organization is immune to the disruptions caused by digitization and technological innovation, forever

The evenings with the Polish culture at the Consulate General of Poland in Toronto. This summer evenings at the Consulate General of Poland in Toronto will be concentrated around the Polish poetry and literature. Before you have any chance to hear Tadeusz Rozewicz and Czeslaw Milosz poems, we would like to invite you for a lecture about a very interesting archeological research on Meroitic and Christian ceramics in ancient Nubia and Sudan. Dr. Dobieslawa Baginska , a curator of the permanent

failure of museum to capitalize their collections and report them as assets. According to the Australian Accounting Standards, annual general-purpose financial reports will be misrepresented if heritage and collections are included as assets. One of the criteria’s of an asset is to bring future economic benefit. The question raised in relation to museum is whether the public heritage collections have any future economic benefits deriving from the collections which is economic to the museum? These

’ Introduction Collections play a crucial role in fulfilling a museum’s mission and purpose. A museum’s collection is defined by its collection policy past and present which in turn helps to shape the museum’s goals and direction. As stewards of collections, museums are expected to maintain the highest professional standards legally and ethically. The development of written policies are necessary to govern the management of collections and to establish the museum's collections related activities

question aroused again. The same questions may appear again and again in the future, but as an essential part of world of art collecting, corporate collecting won’t die in the eyes of most people in the field. The brief history of modern corporate collection It is hard to chase back to the origin of the art patronage, since it is nearly as old as art itself, but the shift from a model dating from the Renaissance, in which leaders of industry used the fruits of their labor to purchase or commission superlative

Throughout our observation week we were able to collect vast amount of data both from observations and interviews. In order to let our data speak to us and help us to understand how the collaborative work is conducted between ITB and Royal Danish Library we have adopted grounded theory method as a main data analysis practice to work with. This decision involved summarizing cons and pros of using this approach. According to Glaser, Barney G & Strauss (1967), using grounded theory involves development

changes will need to be made until the study is underway. Data Collection The primary data collection method of this study is observations. I intend to reflect on my own beliefs daily, in order to remain as objective as possible. Data collection conducted through observations alone can produce filtered results based on the perspective of the observer. That is one of the issues that I anticipate to arise when conducting data collection. That is why recon-naissance will be a necessary task before and