Search for dissertations about: "museums"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the word museums.

  2. 1. Participatory Design in Museums : Visitor-Oriented Perspectives on Exhibition Design

    Author : Gustav Taxén; Yngve Sundblad; Liam Bannon; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Människa-dator-interaktion; Museums; Participtory Design; Technology; Människa-dator-interaktion; Information technology; Informationsteknologi;

    Abstract : This thesis is about the design of technology for museum exhibitions. More specifically, it explores different ways in which visitors can contribute to museum exhibition design and how technology can support learning-related activities within museum exhibitions. READ MORE

  4. 2. Displaying Spaces : Spatial Design, Experience, and Authenticity in Museums

    Author : Märit Simonsson; Richard Pettersson; Vaike Fors; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Museums; space; spatial design; experience; authenticity; meaning making; phenomenology; Rome; museologi; museology;

    Abstract : This dissertation aims to analyse how spatial design affects experiences and meaning making in museums. The overarching question is what the spatial elements and forms within museums communicate to those who visit them. READ MORE

  5. 3. "Not All Museums" : Memory, politics, and museum activism on the move

    Author : Olga Zabalueva; Bodil Axelsson; Malin Thor Tureby; Hans Lauge Hansen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Museum activism; Museum politics; Sweden; Memory studies; Museum definition; Museumaktivism; Museologi; Kulturella minnen; Minnespolitik; Sverige; Museidefinition;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the institutional ontology of museums: how it is being changed and which issues and actors are calling for such change.  A museum project that started from scratch in the mid-2010s – the Museum of Movements in Malmö, Sweden – is used as a lens to examine how the global processes of (re)imagining the museum are unfolding in the local Swedish context. READ MORE

  6. 4. Crocodiles, Masks and Madonnas : Catholic Mission Museums in German-Speaking Europe

    Author : Rebecca Loder-Neuhold; Magnus Lundberg; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Hermann Mückler; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mission museums; mission collections; mission exhibitions; mission history; Catholic mission; mission congregations; missionary networks; history of anthropology; anthropological objects; exhibits; history of collecting; Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver SSPC ; Society of the Divine Word SVD ; Sacred Heart Missionaries MSC ; Missionsmuseen; Missionssammlungen; Missionsausstellungen; Missionsgeschichte; Katholische Mission; Missionskongregationen; missionarische Netzwerke; Anthropologiegeschichte; anthropologische Objekte; Ausstellungsstücke; Geschichte des Sammelns; Missionsschwestern vom heiligen Petrus Claver SSPC ; Gesellschaft des göttlichen Wortes SVD ; Herz-Jesu-Missionare MSC ; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines mission museums established by Catholic mission congregations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from the 1890s onwards. The aim is to provide the first extensive study on these museums in a way that contributes to current blind spots in mission history, and the history of anthropology and museology. READ MORE

  7. 5. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum

    Author : Staffan Lundén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benin; Benin bronzes; Benin objects; Britain; British Museum; colonialism; cultural property; Edo; heritage; loot; museums; museum studies; Nigeria; repatriation; representation; restitution; war booty; Westernness; Kulturföremål historia; Beninsk konst historia; Plundringar historia; Återlämning av kulturföremål; Kulturarvsbrott; Great Britain History; Cultural property Repatriation; Beninriket; Storbritannien;

    Abstract : This study deals with the objects, now in the British Museum, that were looted from Benin City, present-day Nigeria, in 1897. It looks at how the museum represents the Benin objects, the Edo/African, the British/Westerner, and the British Museum. READ MORE