« À l’identique ». Quelques remarques sur la notion d'authenticité en art chinois by Françoise Lauwaert

“…The past has been swept away from towns and put on show in ever-more numerous and impressive museums. In this article I will discuss three classes of objects (monuments, bronzes and calligraphies) that occupy unequal positions in the Chinese artistic hierarchy. …”
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S’approprier un modèle français en Iran ? L’architecte André Godard (1881-1965) et la conception des musées iraniens by Sarah Piram

“…The history of museums in Iran began in the second half of the nineteenth century and experienced its most significant phase in the 1930s, when the Mūze-ye Irān-e Bāstān, the national archaeological museum designed by the French architect André Godard (1881–1965), was inaugurated. …”
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The Neotropical Orb-Weaver Genera Epeiroides, Bertrana and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). by Herbert W. Levi

“…Most Neotropical spider specimens preserved in museums were collected by ornithologists, entomologists or amateur naturalists, who picked up spiders when their preferred organisms could not be found. …”
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Prestige de la hache et haches de prestige by Mélisande Bizoirre

“…Melikian-Chirvani in 1979, this group of decorate arms could henceforth be enriched, thanks to the appearance on the art market of in several museums of new specimens. By basing itself on examples bearing signatures, dates or dedications, this article highlights the diversity of forms, decorations and techniques, as well as the lines of artists working in several centres of production, including Lahore and Esfahan. …”
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Christian prisoners: fifth and sixth century inscriptions from Corinth by C. Breytenbach

“…Currently, these fragments of the limestone slabs that are still available are kept in the museum’s storerooms. …”
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“Bitter” manioc (Manihot esculenta): its consumption and the grater used by the indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in its preparation by Nicolás M. Kamienkowski, Pastor Arenas

“…It includes a bibliographical review on the subject, and the results of a study made of the graters in different ethnographic museums around the world. Field investigations provided clear evidence of cultivation of the plant, the way in which it was prepared and consumed, as well as the characteristics of the grater. …”
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ArtApki w edukacji plastycznej uczniów w wieku wczesnoszkolnym by Dorota Sobierańska

“…The artistic applications presented in the text, available on the websites of American museums, are one of the means leading to this goal. …”
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3D artistic mapping of the urban environment for tourism information support by German Anna

“…Such maps illustrated the historical parts of cities, park zones, museums-estates, individual architectural monuments become popular souvenirs, but their handwritten creation is rather labor-intensive and requires high artistic skills.…”
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MEET. An interactive exhibition itinerary between co-design and enhancement of the territory by Silvia Gasparotto, Alessandra Bosco, Margo Lengua, Pietro Baruzzi

“…In a context of socio-economic and cultural transformations, the diffusion of digital technologies has played a significant role by providing a horizontal tool that can stimulate sharing, simplify communication, and support the physical experience of a place. Even museums and exhibition itineraries, combining physical and digital dimensions, become places of hybridisation. …”
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Application de la méthode QuickScan aux biens culturels non muséaux  by Inés Flores-Fernández

“…The objectives are to test the viability of the method in a non-museum environment, assess the loss of value through a global evaluation of the different typologies present in the parish and determine which are more vulnerable to the identified risks. …”
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Lengua y artefactos en la etnografía wichí de Alfred Métraux by Rodrigo Montani

“…A mere gaze at his « Ethnography of the Chaco » in the Handbook of South American Indians or the Wichí collections he provided for different museums, show that Wichí material culture played a crucial role in Métraux’s research. …”
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Archives vivantes by Marie Gautheron

“…During these interviews, the photographs, histories and museum records of everyday objects collected by the Dakar-Djibouti mission (1931-1933) were presented to artists, culture professionals, and users. …”
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Archives numériques aborigènes, parenté et création by Jessica De Largy Healy

“…The use of digital technology has enabled members of these communities to rediscover their ancestors’ traces, which since the 1920s have been dispersed into ethnographic archives and museums in Australia and abroad. Benefiting from an institutional policy conducive to the digital repatriation of sources, this Indigenous archival turn was accompanied by epistemological reflection by local experts on legitimate processes of transmitting this returned knowledge. …”
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De l’analyse de la médiation aux recherches sur la réception par les publics : quarante ans d’exploration à l’École du Louvre by Marie-Clarté O’Neill

“…An analysis of this chronology highlights both a part of the history of museology and museums, and the gradual shift from a description and analysis of mediation to the beginnings of applied research into the scientific reception of exhibitions by visitors. …”
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« LE PAYSAGE SONORE » DE MURRAY R. SCHAFER by Luana STAN

“…In a world where background music (muzak) invades all public places, Canadian musicologist and composer Murray Schafer does an analysis of all types of sounds (natural, artificial, from the old days until today) in his book The Tuning of the World and advances a proposal to create sound museums. Wouldn’t it be extraordinary to be able to listen to the sounds surrounding St Sophia’s Church during Byzantine times or ... the forest noises from when dinosaurs roamed the Earth? …”
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Blue Morpho Butterfly Morpho peleides Kollar (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Jacqueline Y. Miller

“…In the United States, it is often featured in museums and zoos that have butterfly houses or butterfly rainforests. …”
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Hellenistic and Roman gems and jewellery from south-western Turkey by Lafli, E., Henig, M.

“…In this paper, 19 Hellenistic and Roman engraved gemstones are discussed, all of which are in the collections of local museums at Aydın and Marmaris in south‑western Turkey. …”

Description of three new species of genus Vacrothele (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Macrothelidae) from China with notes on two taxonomic amendments by Yu-Lin Zheng, Yu Zhao, Zi-Zhong Yang

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About metal soaps in ethnographic collections  by Silvia Russo, Elodie Granget, Alexis Malefakis, Laura Brambilla, Jean-Baptiste Thomas, Edith Joseph

“…This article discusses the value of ethnographic objects in museums and collections, and the challenges of preserving them due to their complex composition and poly-materiality. …”
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Blue Morpho Butterfly Morpho peleides Kollar (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Jacqueline Y. Miller

“…In the United States, it is often featured in museums and zoos that have butterfly houses or butterfly rainforests. …”
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