scholarly journals Dvorní rada Julius Frieser (1843–1908) a identifikace minerálů z jeho sbírky ve sbírce Národního muzea v Praze

2021 ◽  
Vol 190 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Miroslav Radoň ◽  
Dalibor Velebil
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
Systematic Collection

Julius Frieser (1843–1908) was a prominent mineral collector who contributed to the research of minerals of the Bohemian Central Mountains, especially zeolites. He personally discovered a new mesolite mineral site in Bedřichov near Benešov nad Ploučnicí. He was known among professional mineralogists from Prague and Vienna, as well as among other collectors of minerals, and was a member of the Litoměřice mineral collectors‘ club, which organized regular mineral exchanges in Litoměřice around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, visited by famous geologists and mineralogists. He built a large systematic collection of minerals from around the world, which included about four thousand items and 350 species. After his death, the collection, or part of it, was acquired by the collector Julia Schildbach from Mariánské Lázně. Her collection was acquired by the National Museum, Prague in 1946. Among Schildbach‘s minerals, 854 items originally from Frieser have currently been identified.

scholarly journals Cultural diplomacy, national identity and national museum: South Korea’s first overseas exhibition in the US, 1957 to 1959

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-hoon Jang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
South Korean Government ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean Government ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The exhibition Masterpieces of Korean Art, which toured 8 cities in the US from December 1957 to June 1959, was the first large-scale overseas exhibition of Korean cultural objects that the South Korean government organized. This overseas exhibition in the US was designed to secure a cultural identity for South Korea on the world stage by explaining to US citizens that Korean culture has peculiar characteristics and independence from Chinese or Japanese culture. It was in the same context that the South Korean government was trying to secure a place within the world order controlled by the US. This touring exhibition shows that, through this exhibition, the National Museum of Korea was engaged in a dual mission to both gain cultural citizenship on the world stage and, reflexively, to internalize this for internal consumption so as to consolidate a sense of Korean cultural identity at home.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENT OF THE TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV’S LINGUISTIC EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM EXPOSITION WITH SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
A. М. Bocharnikova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
The Internet ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
National University

The article contains information on all general-purpose linguistic museums that are currently functioning in the world, functioned in the past, or are at the project stage. In cases where this is possible, the structure of museum’s exposition is examined. Criteria that have played a key role in the division of museums’ content into structural elements are defined. The accuracy of exposition authors’ compliance of their approaches has also been analyzed. The first linguistic museum in the world that opened its doors to visitors was Taras Shevchenko university of Kyiv’s Linguistic Educational Museum founded in 1992 by the order of the university’s rector. During next sixteen years it was world’s only linguistic museum till the year 2008 when National Museum of Language in the US was opened. In 2013 a new linguistic museum named Mundolingua was established in Paris. After 2014 when the museum in USA was closed and till now it continues to be the only linguistic museum in the world except Linguistic Educational Museum in Ukraine that is functioning. At present times there are several big projects of establishing a comprehensive linguistic museum in different countries. Among them is Planet Word in Washington, Museum der Sprachen der Welt in Berlin, Museum of Language in London. The work upon these projects is in progress and hasn’t reached the stage of completeness. There are also two websites available on the Internet that have the name of museum but does not contain any traces of the exposition content. These are the website of the above mentioned National Museum of Language and Taalmuseum in the Netherlands. Both of these websites are portals for announcements concerning exhibitions, lectures and meetings in different places that are somehow referred to language topics. In this article the structure of the museums content has also been analyzed. Linguistic Educational Museum in Kyiv was established for academic purposes therefore its content has the same structure as the Introductory Linguistics course. At the same time it reveals the principles of the museum exposition author’s Doctor of Science thesis named the Metatheory of Linguisics.

scholarly journals Taxonomy of family Benthopectinidae (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) in the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (Suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 118-131
Author(s):  
Magdalena De los Palos-Peña ◽  
Francisco-Alonso Solís-Marín ◽  
Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Sea Stars ◽  
Dichotomous Key ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

Introduction: The family Benthopectinidae is composed of deep-sea sea stars distributed in eight genera and approximately 70 valid species. So far, only five species of this family have been reported for the Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Objective: To provide an updated local taxonomy of this family. Methods: A total of 566 specimens deposited in the Echinoderm National Collection, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, collected from 1952 to 2015, were taxonomically examined. Results: We present descriptions, photographs, and an illustrated dichotomous key for Benthopecten simplex simplex, Cheiraster (Barbadosaster) echinulatus, Cheiraster (Cheiraster) planus, Cheiraster (Christopheraster) blakei, and Cheiraster (Christopheraster) mirabilis in the region. Conclusions: The five studied species represent 6 % of the world biodiversity of the family and can now be identified with the illustrated key.

scholarly journals A new record species in the genus Alpinia (Alpinia graminifolia D. Fang & G.Y. Lo) for Vietnam flora

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanh Trung Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
New Record ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Alpinia Oxyphylla ◽  
New Record Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Quang Ninh

The genus Alpinia Roxb. is one of the largest genera of Zingiberaceae family, with about 250 species on the world and 35 species in Vietnam. Many species of Alpinia are used in traditional medicine of Vietnam such as Alpinia oblongifolia, Alpinia oxyphylla,... In this article, Alpinia graminifolia - a new record species for Vietnam flora was discovered in the mountain of Northern Vietnam (Quang Ninh province and Bac Giang province). Specimens were collected in Quang Ninh province (Uong Bi City, Thuong Yen Cong commune, Yen Tu mountain) and Bac Giang province (Son Dong dist., Thanh Luan commune), deposited at the Vietnam National Museum of Nature (VNMN), herbarium of Hanoi University of Pharmacy (HNIP), herbarium of Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (HN).  

scholarly journals The Yurt is an ancient dwelling of Tuvans

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Любовь Шулуевна Шойдук
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Nomadic People ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Republic

В статье представлен аналитический обзор постоянной экспозиции Мир тувинцев: быт, традиции и культура в Национальном музее Республики Тыва. Тувинский народ за свою историю накопил колоссальное культурноэстетическое наследие. Часть тувинских обрядов и традиций требует детального изучения и восстановления для сохранения и передачи потомкам. С развитием цивилизации и переходом в дома и благоустроенные квартиры позабылись строение, структура юрты и быт кочевого народа. В работе даны основные понятия о кочевом жилище, строении юрты, ее убранстве и предметах домашнего обихода, народном искусстве. Обзор музейной экспозиции представляет интерес для исследователей тувинского быта, конструкции древнего жилища кочевых народов Центральной Азии, в частности тувинцев. Изложенные сведения могут быть использованы как дополнительная информация для преподавателей, студентов и учащихся. The article presents an analytical review of the permanent exhibition The World of Tuvans: life, traditions and culture in the National Museum of the Republic of Tyva. The Tuvinian people in their history have accumulated a colossal cultural and aesthetic heritage. Part of Tuvan rites and traditions require detailed study and restoration to preserve and transfer to descendants. With the development of civilization and the transition of living in houses and comfortable apartments, the structure of the Yurt and the life of the nomadic people were forgotten. The paper presents the basic concepts of nomadic dwelling, the structure of the Yurt, its decoration and household items, folk art. The review of the museum exhibition is of interest to researchers of Tuvinian life, the construction of the ancient dwelling of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, in particular, Tuvans. This information can be used as additional information for teachers and students.

scholarly journals What the Polish Mother Does Not Say. Zbylut Grzywacz Against the Myth

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Dorota Kudelska
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 62, issue 4 (2014). The article presents the art of Zbylut Grzywacz in the context of his post-mortem exhibition in the Kraków National Museum in 2009. The subjects of the analysis are his paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, presenting women through a simple rough treatment of human body form, without an academic idealization. The destruction of the form conforms to the deconstruction of the myth of a Polish Mother. It is due to the change of a social position of the figures whom Grzywacz gives the roles of guardians of tradition, as well as due to their mental and moral degradation. The artist uses an irony in showing his knowledge of the tradition of showing a human body in an academic nude (what he denies), in a Flemish art of showing torn animal meat (with the Rembrandt’s reflection) and Holbein’s tradition of the post-mortem decay (The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb). One of the main themes in Grzywacz’s paintings is the loneliness, especially distinct in a representation of symbolically naked persons among insensible pedestrians. The Polish Mother—here she doesn’t belong to any society. The explicitness and the picturesque materiality covers a certain “crack” in the world presented inside the hard-to-comprehend present-day multitude of Grzywacz’s paintings. Behind the cover of the foreground tale, as one could think on the basis of the sketchbooks, there is a kind of an “unpresented world”, in which the author incessantly tells us about the pain of his existence with no anaesthetization by grotesque.

Last Chance for Life: Clemency in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
The Past ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
The World ◽  
Executive Clemency ◽  
Empirical Methodology ◽  
Systematic Collection

All five contemporary practitioners of the death penalty in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—have performed executions on a regular basis over the past few decades. Amnesty International currently classifies each of these nations as death penalty ‘retentionists’. However, notwithstanding a common willingness to execute, the number of death sentences passed by courts that are reduced to a term of imprisonment, or where the prisoner is released from custody altogether, through grants of clemency by the executive branch of government varies remarkably among these neighbouring political allies. This book uncovers the patterns which explain why some countries in the region award commutations and pardons far more often than do others in death penalty cases. Over the period under analysis, from 1991 to 2016, the regional outliers were Thailand (with more than 95 per cent of condemned prisoners receiving clemency after exhausting judicial appeals) and Singapore (with less than 1 per cent of condemned prisoners receiving clemency). Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam fall at various points in between these two extremes. This is the first academic study anywhere in the world to compare executive clemency across national borders using empirical methodology, the latter being a systematic collection of clemency data in multiple jurisdictions using archival and ‘elite’ interview sources. Last Chance for Life: Clemency in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases will prove an authoritative resource for legal practitioners, criminal justice policymakers, scholars, and activists throughout the ASEAN region and around the world.

‘The Performance of Servitude’: Gendered and Racialised Representations of Citizenship at the Bahrain National Museum

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
John Thabiti Willis
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Black Musicians ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores a wedding exhibit near the entrance to the Customs and Traditions Hall in the Bahrain National Museum in Manama, Bahrain. It uses an African diaspora framework to analyse the mannequins and images that depict an olive or light-skinned bridal party and black musicians who accompany her during the most festive moments of the ceremony. Drawing from the work of historian and philosopher Michel Foucault on governance and power and sociologist Tony Bennett, it argues that the exhibit serves as both a parable of Bahraini society and as a way of naturalising and validating racial and gender hierarchies. The museum helps to shape the world of a population of subjects by functioning as part of the contract between a nation-state (embodied by a dynastic monarchy) and its citizens (non-royals).

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