Search Results - Science Museum (London)
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Anti-museums and collecting as a subjective act
Published 2024“…Finally, the Viktor Wynd Museum (VWM) is a small museum located in the Hackney borough in London. …”
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The Australian Desert Fireball Network: A new era for planetary science
Published 2012“…Through an international collaboration between Imperial College London, the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic and the Western Australian Museum, the installation of the Australian Desert Fireball Network in the Nullarbor Region of Western Australia was completed in 2007. …”
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Strokes of serendipity: community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage
Published 2020“…This article explores the potential that community–led digital engagement with heritage holds for stimulating active citizenship through taking responsibility for shared cultural heritage and for fostering long-lasting relationships between local community heritage groups and national museums. Through the lens of a pilot project titled Science Museum: Community-in- Residence, we discovered that — despite working with community groups that were already loyal to and enjoyed existing working ties with the Science Museum in London, U.K — this undertaking proved challenging owing to a range of structural and logistical issues even before the application of digital devices and tools had been considered. …”
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A dialogue between colonial and post-colonial Bengal: An exceptional mother and daughter in search of science
Published 2014“…As in the metropolis, ‘literary rather than scientific knowledge was imparted at the University of Calcutta, for example, which was patterned on the London model. Natural philosophy and geology were the science subjects introduced in government colleges such as the Presidency college but the non-governmental colleges where the majority of students received instruction were unable to offer science courses.…”
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The designation and display of British railway heritage in the post-war decades
Published 2017“…In this period, the British Transport Historical Records Office was established in West London (with branches and York and Edinburgh), whilst a series of temporary exhibitions of railway history at the Shareholder’s Meeting Room in Euston in the 1950s were followed by the establishment of new transport museums at Clapham, South London in 1961 and at Swindon in 1962. …”
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