Stories
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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How to play in a museum
Some museums create games for visitors to play. In others, if you’re creative and inquisitive, you can make up your own. Find out how a game can give you a different perspective on art and objects.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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Shame and the online free-for-all
Lucia Osborne-Crowley looks at how shame manifests online, where public humiliation is common and second chances all too rare.
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Catalogue
- Books
The wired museum : emerging technology and changing paradigms / Katherine Jones-Garmil, editor ; introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson.
Date: 1997- Books
Digital preservation for libraries, archives, and museums / Edward M. Corrado and Heather Lea Moulaison.
Corrado, Edward M., 1971-Date: [2014]- Books
Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.
Date: 2012- Archives and manuscripts
Internet resource guides
Date: c.1996-c.2006Reference: WT/D/1/2/12Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Museum & library special collection use of major internet sites / Primary Research Group.
Date: ©2013
