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Between tradition and innovation: A preliminary survey on the artistic heritage of the University of Genoa, Italy

Luca Bochicchio

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 23-34

Italy has some of the oldest universities in the world and its university heritage is among the most significant in Europe. Botanical gardens and anatomical theatres developed in fifteenth and sixteenth century and were later introduced in other European universities. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Italian university heritage, both from the Italian academy, the Italian Council...

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The Scadinavian clog calendar at the Jagiellonian University Museum

Tadeusz W. Lange

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 91-99

The idea of a convenient perpetual calendar emerged in the Middle Ages in geographical areas with limited access to clergymen, who, equipped with liturgical calendars and the so-called Paschal tables (used to set the dates of movable feasts), enforced the Third Commandment on behalf of the Catholic Church. The need for a handy tool that enabled an illiterate user to track the calendar independently...

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Managing the scientific heritage of a medieval university: The case of Uppsala University

John Worley, Urban Josefsson

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 51-60

The University of Uppsala was established by a papal bull in 1477. Over the past five centuries its various departments have collected a vast array of items that have been used for teaching or research. These items bare silent witness to the cultural history of each department and cumulatively of the University itself. Some mark not only fundamental milestones for Uppsala University and for Sweden,...

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Other ways of seeing: towards an interdisciplinary approach to university heritage

Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 43-49

In 1851, Britain lost probably one of the greatest painters of all time: Joseph Mallord William Turner died, whose paintings can instantly be recognised and remain to this day the treasure of nineteenth-century impressionism. The collection of his paintings, now held at the Tate Britain and in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, was put together at the time, patiently catalogued and...

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Dans les murs mais aussi “hors les murs”: An Australian view

Collet Penelope

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 35-41

In the Education Faculty at La Trobe University over 300 art works are exhibited around the walls and corridors of the building. This is named the F.M. Courtis Collection after the art educator who acquired the first works in 1958. The purpose of the acquisitions was to build a teaching collection for use by lecturers and student teachers. The collection was developed to provide examples of the stylistic...

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Zabezpieczenie przed konfiskatą – ochrona prawna dla muzeów organizujących wystawy międzynarodowe

Dorota Folga-Januszewska

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 75-88

'International exhibitions are playing an increasingly important part in the life of our museums and galleries. Such exhibitions draw together items from collections in many different countries, introducing visitors to different cultures and civilisations, and increasing their understanding of other countries. They make it possible for visitors to study works of a particular movement or artist which...

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Crossroads of Heritage: The material culture of science and technology in universities

Jaume Valentines-Alvarez

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 61-71

Heritage is a contingent concept defined according to identity, power and culture transformations. At the same time, heritage encompasses historical elements that reveal these transformations, whether in an entire society or in a small institution. In every agora, citizens participate in the 'double construction' of their heritage and negotiate the narrative of their history. As small but well-structured...

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The “Academic Museum” – Göttingen’s University Collection as a space of knowledge production and cultural heritage

Marie Luisa Allemeyer, Dominik Collet, Marian Fussel

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 15-22

(Polish title: 'Akademickie Muzeum'. Kolekcja uniwersytetu w Getyndze jako miejsce powstawania nauki i dziedzictwa kulturowego). The 'Academic Museum' constitutes a crucial locale for a new history of science. As a space of academic self-fashioning and self-affirmation, it can illustrate historical concepts of objectivity, cultures of evidence or the performance of knowledge. University collections...

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MEUS: The European Museum of Students at the University of Bologna

Gian Paolo Brizzi

Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne > 2010 > 18 > 9-14

The European Museum of Students is the result of over ten years of work and is an original and valuable addition to the museums of the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe and one of the earliest student universities in the world. It is thus fi tting that the University of Bologna should take steps to promote the knowledge and study of the student world with a centre for the documentation...

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Opuscula Musealia. Czasopismo muzeologiczne

Between tradition and innovation: A preliminary survey on the artistic heritage of the University of Genoa, Italy

The Scadinavian clog calendar at the Jagiellonian University Museum

Managing the scientific heritage of a medieval university: The case of Uppsala University

Other ways of seeing: towards an interdisciplinary approach to university heritage

Dans les murs mais aussi “hors les murs”: An Australian view

Zabezpieczenie przed konfiskatą – ochrona prawna dla muzeów organizujących wystawy międzynarodowe

Crossroads of Heritage: The material culture of science and technology in universities

The “Academic Museum” – Göttingen’s University Collection as a space of knowledge production and cultural heritage

MEUS: The European Museum of Students at the University of Bologna

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