scholarly journals Glass production on the Lava factories

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
Andrei Drozdov
Keyword(s):  
Glass Factory ◽  
Glass Composition ◽  
Window Glass ◽  
Glass Production ◽  
Metal Plate ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Manufacturing Techniques ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

This article describes the finds (glass pieces, byproducts, fragments of items) discovered on the site of former Lava factories, which were initially owned by V. Elmsel (1730), and in 1738 passed to the public coffers. Factories on the Lava River manufactured window glass by casting on a metal plate, as well as hot-glass items and window glass using lunar method. The glass composition and color varied: ash matter (“Cherkass glass”) was green; and potash glass was pale blue or grayish hue, discolored with cobalt and manganese. The factory also produced blue glass painted with cobalt. The analysis is conducted on the document that contains the order of the Palace Chancellery for manufacturing glass items on the Lava factories. The scientific novelty consists in the following: establishment of the location of glass factories on the Lava River; systematization of the finds and conclusion on hot and cold glass manufacturing techniques; description of the discovered fragments of glassware, mirror and window glass in comparison with similar items preserved in the museum collections and found during the archaeological excavations in Moscow; description of cooperation of Lava factories with the Saint Petersburg glass factory in execution of the Palace. The conducted research allows attributing certain items stored in the private and museum collections to the items manufactures by Lava factories. The author concludes on the need for archaeological excavations on the site of Lava factories.

scholarly journals Late antique domus in Skelani (Municipium Malvesiatium)

Starinar ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 197-220
Author(s):  
Nadezda Gavrilovic-Vitas ◽  
Bojan Popovic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The North ◽  
Wall Heating ◽  
North Western ◽  
Main Entrance ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

During June and July 2014, at the site of Zadruzni Dom in Skelani, archaeological investigations of the late antique building were carried out, whose rooms were first discovered in the course of archaeological excavations in 2008. The building has a rectangular base, of a northeast-southwest orientation, with the discovered part measuring 20.90 x 30.90 m. What is distinguishable within the asymmetrical base is an entrance, along with eleven rooms, two of which have apses, and a peristyle, i.e. an inner courtyard with a roofed corridor surrounding it which connects all the rooms of the building. During the archaeological excavations, entrance thresholds and extremely well preserved mortar floors with mortar skirting were noted in most rooms, along with traces of fresco painting on the walls and mosaic floors, executed in the opus tesselatum technique, observed in several rooms, the peristyle and the encompassing corridor. The discovered mosaic fragments are decorated with geometric motifs in the form of a swastika, a Solomon?s knot, a square, a rhomboid, overlapping circles, etc. and floral motifs of ivy and petals, as well as a double braid motif. Small but, unfortunately, fragmented pieces of a mosaic with a figural representation were discovered in the central part of the peristyle, while the mosaic in room K was decorated with a motif portraying the winged head of Medusa. Two construction phases were noted, an older and a younger, with the walls, which were two Roman feet wide and built from dressed stone, and the older mortar floor belonging to the older construction phase, and the second, younger construction phase comprising mosaics, fresco painting, the younger mortar floor and two furnaces. Contemplating the planimetry of the building, one gets the impression of the rooms being divided between two parts - public and private, whereby the public part of the building would be located near the main entrance hall and would comprise rooms A, B, C, D and F, with mortar floors and traces of fresco painting on the walls. The other, possibly private, part of the building would include five rooms G, H, I, J and K and the inner courtyard. Rooms I, J and K had floor and wall heating, while rooms G and H had an arched apse and possibly functioned as a reception hall and/or a stibadium. The hallway with mosaics, which flanks the inner courtyard, was most likely roofed. Traces of burning in the north-western corridor testify to the destruction of the building in a fire. Based on the architectural elements and the traces of fresco painting and mosaics in the building at the site of Zadruzni Dom in Skelani, it can be deduced that this is a late antique building which can roughly be dated to the period between the end of the 3rd and the mid-4th century AD, and whose lavish decoration implies that it was owned by an affluent resident of Skelani from the aforementioned period.

scholarly journals Public private partnership as city project management technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 01037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Zapivakhin ◽  
Igor Ilin ◽  
Anastasia Levina
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Management Technology ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Basic Concepts

The paper describes the principle of the public-private partnership as a mechanism for implementing infrastructure projects in cities as well as the forms of organization and financing options for such projects. The basic concepts of the public-private partnership are analyzed. The experience of implementing the public-private partnership in the framework of the project for the construction of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg interstate route is presented. The bottlenecks of the current practice of the public-private partnership were revealed. The purpose of this paper is to propose recommendations for improving the effectiveness of public-private partnership as a form of government-business relations in the Leningrad region based on an analysis of the model of public-private partnership in the region.

scholarly journals Design of Digital Interaction for Complex Museum Collections

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Laura Loredana Micoli ◽  
Giandomenico Caruso ◽  
Gabriele Guidi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Multimedia Applications ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Funerary Ritual

Interactive multimedia applications in museums generally aim at integrating into the exhibition complementary information delivered through engaging narratives. This article discusses a possible approach for effectively designing an interactive app for museum collections whose physical pieces are mutually related by multiple and articulated logical interconnections referring to elements of immaterial cultural heritage that would not be easy to bring to the public with traditional means. As proof of this concept, a specific case related to ancient Egyptian civilization has been developed. A collection of Egyptian artifacts such as mummies, coffins, and amulets, associated with symbols, divinities, and magic spells through the structured funerary ritual typical of that civilization, has been explained through a virtual application based on the concepts discussed in the methodological section.

Marble Busts and Fish Fossils

Nuncius ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-483
Author(s):  
Elena Canadelli
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Natural History Collection ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

The historical catalogs of the museum collections contain a wealth of information for historians seeking to reconstruct their contents, how they were displayed and the ways in which they were used. This paper will present the complete transcription of a draft catalog that was prepared in 1797 for the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities of the University of Padua. Conserved in the university’s Museum of Geology and Paleontology, the catalog was the first to be compiled of the museum, which was established in 1733 thanks to the donation by Antonio Vallisneri Jr. of his father Antonio Vallisneri Sr.’s collection of antiquities and natural history. The catalog was compiled by the custodian of the museum, the herbalist and amateur naturalist Bartolomeo Fabris. It is of great interest because it provides a record of the number and nature of the pieces conserved in the museum at a time when natural history and archeology collections were still undivided. It also provides indications as to how such collections were arranged for display in the public halls of a university at the end of the eighteenth century. Based on this catalog, with additional information drawn from other manuscript and published sources and museum catalogs from the 1830s conserved in various institutes at the University of Padua, it is possible to reconstruct the contents and layout of a significant late 18th-century natural history collection.

Effect of Small Glass Composition Changes on Flue Gas Emissions of Glass Furnaces

2008 ◽  
Vol 39-40 ◽  
pp. 653-658
Author(s):  
Hans van Limpt ◽  
Ruud Beerkens ◽  
Marco van Kersbergen
Keyword(s):  
Flue Gas ◽  
Glass Composition ◽  
Glass Melting ◽  
Glass Production ◽  
Industrial Glass ◽  
Glass Furnaces ◽  
Evaporation Models ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Composition Changes ◽  
Sodium And Potassium

Relatively small changes in glass composition might have drastic consequences on the evaporation rates of volatile glass components in glass melting furnaces. Transpiration evaporation tests have been applied to measure the impact of minor glass composition changes on the evaporation rates of volatile glass components in simulated furnace atmospheres. The results of these laboratory evaporation tests were used to develop and optimize an universally applicable evaporation model to estimate evaporation rates and dust emissions for industrial glass melt furnaces. Mass transfer relations for the transport of volatile glass melt species into the turbulent gas phase were used to upscale the evaporation models valid for the lab tests to applications for industrial glass furnaces. In this paper, the impact of sulfur and chlorides on the evaporation rates of sodium and potassium from multi-component silicate melts for industrial glass production will be demonstrated.

scholarly journals Digitization in museums: Between a fashionable trend and market awareness

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Anna Anetta Janowska ◽  
Radosław Malik
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Register

The purpose of this article is to verify how museums in Poland deal with the challenge of digital transformation. The proliferation of information and communications technology (ICT) enables the digitization of museum collections and increases their availability to the public. The preservation and popularization of cultural heritage, being an important part of the cultural policy, is a priority for the European Union, resulting in increased funding of digitization initiatives. The study presented in this article is based on a survey performed among a group of leading museums in Poland which are recorded in the State Register of Museums. The results show that museums accept digitization as a crucial element of their activity. 69% of the institutions present some part of their collections online and 94% intend to increase the scope of digitization. However, most institutions share less than 25% of their current collections online despite having a larger part digitized. 83% of museums share their collections exclusively on their own websites or dedicated platforms, and most institutions (62%) observe a positive connection between sharing collections online and the number of physical visits to the museum. The results also show that museums tend to prioritize heritage preservation over collection sharing.

scholarly journals Embroidery ornament on a traditional Khakass holiday women’s fur coat

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
M. P. Chebotaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
National Museum ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Peter The Great

The article deals with the traditional Khakas holiday coats «tone», «Oh ton» and «idect tone.» The research was based on the Museum collections of the Russian ethnographic Museum (Saint Petersburg)and the Museum of anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera), Khakass national Museum of local lore and Askiz Museum of local lore. The author analyzes the canons of embroidery arrangement on women’s fur coats of the Khakas ethnic groups-Kachin, sagay, koibal, Kyzyl and Shor. Folk embroidery of the Khakas on a festive fur coat had mythological motifs and was a kind of amulet of a person. The main ornamental motifs in embroidery were associated with the Pantheon of gods among the Khakas Tengri (Tigir), Umai (Ymai), the goddess of Fire (From Ine), the God of the Middle world «Earth-Water» (Chir-su), the Sun Goddess (kun) and the moon Goddess (AI).

scholarly journals Museums and Digital Culture: From Reality to Digitality in the Age of COVID-19

Heritage ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-214
Author(s):  
Tula Giannini ◽  
Jonathan P. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Culture ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art And Technology ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Digital Landscape

Museums increasingly recognize the need to address advances in digital culture which impact the expectations and needs of their audiences. Museum collections of real objects need to be presented both on their own premises and digitally online, especially as digital and social media becomes more and more influential in people’s everyday lives. From interdisciplinary perspectives across digital culture, art, and technology, we investigate these challenges magnified by advances in digital and computational media and culture, looking particularly at recent and relevant reports on changes in the ways museums interact with the public. We focus on human digital behavior, experience, and interaction in museums in the context of art, artists, and human engagement with art, using the observational perspectives of the authors as a basis for discussion. Our research shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the changes driving museum transformation, about which this paper presents a landscape view of its characteristics and challenges. Our evidence shows that museums will need to be more prepared than ever to adapt to unabated technological advances set in the midst of cultural and social revolution, now intrinsic to the digital landscape in which museums are inevitably connected and participating across the global digital ecosystem where they inevitably find themselves entrenched, underscoring the central importance of an inclusive integrative museum model between physical and digital reality.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF COMPETITIVENESS IN THE MARKET OF PUBLIC CATERING SERVICES OF SAINT PETERSBURG

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Елена Печерица ◽  
Elena Pecheritsa ◽  
Татьяна ПОПОВА ◽  
Tatiana Tatiana O. POPOVA ◽  
Яна ТЕСТИНА ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Qualified Personnel ◽  
Public Catering ◽  
Service Advertising ◽  
Tourist Flow

The article examines the market of public catering services in St. Petersburg. The authors considers competitiveness factors actual for catering enterprises, such as menu, bar, fast and highquality service, quality of meals and drinks, finishing with the service and cleanliness of the hall, the price level, the staff, the concept and design of the restaurant, the presence of an entertainment program, PR and marketing, the availability of parking, the location of the public catering enterprise. Examples of the most successful enterprises are given. The authors identify the types of public catering establishments in St. Petersburg that are currently in high demand. The main characteristics of these types are presented. The article identifies the main problems existing at the market of public catering services, among which there are following: unstable financial and economic situation, introduction of sanctions, a decline in the tourist flow to the country, insufficient number of qualified personnel, narrow specialization of catering enterprises, increase in the number of competitive bars. The authors offer their recommendations on the solution of the identified problems: import substitution of sanctions products, training of their personnel, attracting the maximum number of tourists. In conclusion, the authors note that the competitive advantage of public catering is not something stable, constantly guaranteeing success and the flow of customers. Considering the high circulation of competitors in the restaurant market, the competitive advantage of the restaurant can easily be lost. No matter how successful and fashionable the project was at the opening, the management of the restaurant must constantly be on its toes and work on such indicators as personnel, quality, service, advertising, in order to the effective work of the institution.

Deaccessioning

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Piazzai ◽  
Marilena Vecco
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Technical Term ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
The Public ◽  
Necessary Evil

Deaccessioning is the technical term referring to the expulsion of objects from museum collections. This would be considered an ordinary aspect of museum administration if museums did not play a crucial role in the conservation of cultural heritage. Both linguistically and factually, deaccessioning represents the undoing of accessioning operations, by which objects newly acquired by museums are inscribed into museum registers. Because the act of accessioning constitutes a conferral of status, an expert acknowledgment that the object is worthy of preservation, deaccessioning comes to represent the revocation of this status; that is, it entails the object’s return to the mundane sphere. Deaccessioning usually occurs with the intent of selling the object. The practice first came into the spotlight on 27 February 1972, when in a New York Times article titled “Very Quiet and Very Dangerous,” the art critic and historian John Canaday denounced the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rumored sale of many prominent artworks earlier that year, including two Manets, a Cézanne, a Renoir, a Gauguin, and a Picasso, questioning the operation on both ethical and financial grounds. The episode became widely known as the “Hoving affair,” from the name of then-director of the Metropolitan Museum, Thomas Hoving, and left a stigma about the practice of selling artworks from museum collections. Since then, deaccessioning has remained an uncomfortable aspect of museum administration, considered by some a legitimate curatorial tool, by others a necessary evil in times of financial stress, and by still others a mark of museum managers’ betrayal of the public trust. To this day, deaccessioning continues to be discussed primarily in relation to art museums and the sale of artworks; however, the term rightfully applies to non-artistic objects, such as books, archival records, or archaeological items, and it does not strictly refer to objects’ sales but more generally to their disposals. Therefore, it also applies to cases where the objects are expelled from collections because of loss, damage, donation, restitution, or repatriation. Deaccessioning can occur for reasons that appear easily defensible. It may occur, for example, because new legislation forces a change of ownership, or because the museum cannot properly care for the object. Nevertheless, it often occurs for dubious reasons, perhaps because the item is considered redundant, uninteresting, or commercially valuable. This bibliography entry draws on interdisciplinary literature to review common arguments both in favor and against deaccessioning. It begins with legal considerations, because the legal profession was the first to develop scholarly interest in this practice, and was later followed by the fields of economics and management. After introducing selected literature from these fields, this entry introduces key sources on deaccessioning policy, representative case studies, and publications oriented toward students and practitioners.

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