Seductive Snakes and Asexual Angels: Queer Undercurrents in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Desert Sands” by H.J.E. Champion

“…Harriet Prescott Spofford’s 1863 short story “Desert Sands” recounts, at first glance, the jealous rivalry between an artist’s two muses. Yet when one applies a thin layer of turpentine to the top layer of the canvas that makes up the narrative of “Desert Sands,” it becomes clear that there is another, much more unusual, image underneath. …”
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Exposer la sculpture au Louvre au temps de Rodin, 1860-1914 by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier

“…In the rooms of the Musée du Louvre, curators were faced with many constraints: space limited in surface, height and the repartition into rooms by the architecture of an existing palace; lateral light from windows on a single side; existing original collection; multiple improvements, influenced by the curiosity and appetite of the curators, the taste of the donors and the assignments from the Musée du Luxembourg. …”
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Les regalia du président by Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry

“…Given by the French presidency to the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens and now in the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, these diplomatic gifts are atypical because of their originality compared to the very standardised corpus of African presidential gifts and the large number of comments they gave rise to throughout their history. …”
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The Values of Cultural Exchange by Derrick Cartwright

“…Cartwright, qui était à l’époque du congrès directeur du Musée d’art américain à Giverny (MAAG), s’interroge sur le rôle d’un musée d’art américain en France et sur les effets de cette situation paradoxale sur notre compréhension des relations interculturelles. …”
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Transformer les pratiques muséales au Cameroun grâce à la visualisation 3D by Gérard Dimitri Keumoe, Coline Blot

“…Following the temporary exhibition “Contact(s) Zone. Penser le Musée national comme lieu de relation, espace du lien” (“Contact(s) Zone. …”
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Les installations immersives muséalisées : un défi muséographique. Connaître l’expérience des visiteurs pour adapter l’accompagnement muséal. by Elizabeth Desbans

“…Knowing the visitor’s experience to adapt the museum experience. Case study: the Musée National d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Centre Georges-Pompidou. …”
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Le corps numérique des données by Tiziana Nicoletta Beltrame

“…The transfer of extra-European collections from the Museum of Man to the Musée du quai Branly involves the displacement of documentary information on the artefacts. …”
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Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017) by Evers, Serjoscha W., Foth, Christian, Joyce, Walter G., Hermanson, Guilherme

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Redécouverte d’un tibia et d’un fémur provenant du site de La Madeleine, Dordogne by Aurélie Fort

“…During the inventory of the anthropological collections of the Musée de l’Homme (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris) in 2006, a right tibia and a right femur apparently coming from the site of La Madeleine, Dordogne, were found. …”
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1874-1875: The Birth of a Fashion Heritage Consciousness in France by Maude Bass-Krueger

“…The first exhibition about the history of costume, the “Musée historique du costume” was inaugurated in France in 1874. …”
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The Etruscans and the Mediterranean : The City of Cerveteri by Jaimee Uhlenbrock

“…On December 5, 2013, an impressive exhibition opened at the Musée du Louvre-Lens, “the other Louvre,” that surely will appeal to anyone interested in terracotta sculpture, as well as to anyone interested in the cultures and civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. …”
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L’objet phare au Biodôme, les enjeux du zoo contemporain by Anne Castelas

“…Cela entraine un paradoxe quant à l’agent légitime à déterminer l’objet phare du musée. La direction de l’institution défend l’absence d’objet phare, puisque, selon elle, l’originalité et l’image du musée est son concept, soit l’exposition de collections vivantes dans des capsules d’environnement. …”
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Les techniques de sculpture dans l’Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen Âge by Thierry Gregor, Anne-Bénédicte Mérel-Brandenburg

“…By comparing various works from the Louvre and the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers with the conditions of use of the tools, sometimes particular and original, the paper will describe in detail these specific techniques and the approach to the stone material, always ingenious, of the engravers, sculptors, stone cutters or simply the executors during this pivotal period.…”
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La restauration de My Flower Bed, de Yayoi Kusama by Camille Morineau, Patricia Dal-Prà

“…Another particularity in this case is the private sponsoring which enabled the Musée National d’Art Moderne to finance a heavy restoration of a masterpiece of the 60’s.…”
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Label-free (fluorescence-free) sensing of a single DNA molecule on DNA origami using a plasmon-enhanced WGM sensor by Ghamari Shahin, Chiarelli Germán, Kołątaj Karol, Subramanian Sivaraman, Acuna Guillermo P., Vollmer Frank

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Le « jonglage » des visiteurs entre œuvres et cartels : de l’étude d’un comportement à l’application d’un principe muséographique. by Anne-Sophie Grassin

“…This is why, twenty years after its updating and definition, object-label juggling has guided the redesign of the written mediation of a national museum in Paris, the Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge, which was closed for twenty months for the renovation of its buildings and museographic itinerary. …”
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Un problème d’obsolescence : la substitution de tubes fluorescents sur deux œuvres lumino-cinétiques de Nino Calos by Olivier Steib

“…This article retraces the questions asked of a restorer given the task of treating an obsolescent lighting system during the restoration of two Mobiles lumineux (Luminous Modules) by Nino Calos (1926-1990) in the collection of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Amongst other questions, these include the methodology, the techniques of intervention and the decision strategies employed in the study and restoration of thees lumino-kinetic works of art.…”
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L’atome Logo du Centre des Sciences de Montréal by Tiphaine Léon

“…Son mandat questionne la notion d’objet phare, puisque les objets exposés, créés pour le musée, sont les médiateurs permettant l’accession d’un savoir ; ils n’ont rien d’emblématique. …”
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Un saltuarius dévot de Jupiter Optimus Maximus dans le Mâconnais by Monique Dondin-Payre, Hélène Chew

“…The musée d’Archéologie nationale at Saint-Germain-en-Laye has just acquired a bronze wheel-bearing Jupiter with an inscribed base, found at Rontecolon in the locality of Cenves (Rhône). …”
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Une nouvelle partie de la collection archéologique d’Alcide d’Orbigny retrouvée ? by Pascal Riviale

“…The recent discovery of a small set of prehispanic Peruvian ceramics in the storage area of the musée Carnavalet, which might be linked to the scientific material brought by Alcide d’Orbigny from his long expedition to South America (1826-1833), put us back on a track we had abandoned for a long time. …”
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