The aim of this masters thesis is to analyze how subjects of ethnographical objects should be described. To obtain this we focus on which subject aspects of ethnographical objects that could be possible and valuable to analyze and to index. This is done with the help of established LIS subject indexing theories, and through the perspective of ethnographical Museum documentation. The theories are both general, concerning the stages of subject indexing, and more specific, regarding the indexing of pictures. One of the latter is the theoretical model of Sara Shatford, from the article Analyzing the Subject of a Picture.

How does the visitor experience the message and symbolism in an archaeological exhibition?Can they notice hidden elements in the exhibition and what decides if they see it or not?In my work I studied these things by making an investigation among exhibition visitors thathave much or none knowledge about archaeology and history. I wished to see how well theycan notice this and if knowledge is important for the understanding of the message and thesymbols. The case study takes place at the exhibition Metropolis at Kulturen in Lund, wherethe history behind and about the Medieval town of Lund is shown.My results show that the possibility for understanding the messages and symbolism exist, butthe chances to do so increase with knowledge.My goal was also try to give some guidelines for exhibition which will improve presentationof the exhibition. To express it shortly this include knowledge, self-awareness and to makevisitor´s studies.My paper also discuss related things: how exhibitions are made, the visitor, the society versusthe Museum, the new growing trend towards the Museum as a great experience, the changeswithin the Museum world and how this affect the future of the archaeological Museum..

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att identifiera exempel då datorgrafik har visualiserat historien och diskutera vilken effekt datorgrafik har på Museum. Inledningen presenterar varierande hot från människa och natur mot arkeologiska lämningar och motivationen att bevara samt fördelar med att ha en 3D modell. Nästa kapitel ser tillbaka på uppkomsten av datorgrafik och bakgrunden till museer och vad besökare tycker samt är ute efter vid besök av dessa. Därefter redogörs metoderna med vilka denna studie bedrivits för att sedan skildra teknikerna genom hela arbetsprocessen för att öka förståelsen för icke sakkunniga. Den längre delen spaltar upp exempel på fullbordade projekt; vad som är unikt i varje fall och vilka lärdomar som framkommit.

Syftet med vår uppsats är att vi vill undersöka hur samarbetet mellan skola och Museum fungerar. Som blivande lärare vill vi få mer kunskap om hur vi använder oss av museet som arena i vår undervisning på ett bra sätt. Vi frågar oss hur skola och Museum samarbetar? Hur samarbetet leder till elevers historiemedvetande och vilka de eventuella hindren i samarbetet är? Vi presenterar och diskuterar tidigare forskning inom området. Några viktiga forskare som vi lyfter fram är Berit Ljung, Monica Cassel och Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

This bachelor thesis consists of an analysis of Museum environment. In the research, case studies have been done at the, Stockholm based Museums, Swedish Museum of Natural history?s exhibition Natur i Sverige (Nature in Sweden) and the Nordiska museet?s (Nordic history) exhibition Modemakt (Power of fashion) and learning environment Lekstugan (playhouse). The purpose of the research was to study how cultural heritage is used and developed within the Museum pedagogy aimed at children. The research is based on a multimodal approach with focus on learning resources.The research examines the Museums focus on children and youngsters, what the goals for this focus looks like on respective Museum and how the focus is visible in the actual Museums.

This essay concerns dance as an exhibition object by examining the permanent exhibition at The Museum of Dance in Stockholm, Dansmuseet. Due to its dependence on the temporality and movement of the lived body, dance does not easily lend itself to being exhibited in a traditional exhibition display; and since the live dance performance itself is ostensibly absent at the exhibition display, other means of representation must be relied upon in order to evoke the exhibition visitors? experiences of time and movement as well as the feeling of dance. Starting from a phenomenological first-person perspective, as an exhibition visitor, I present three ways in which such experiences may come about. The cross-section of the experience evoked and the means that trigger them are intermedial, spatial, and performative taking their departure in the visitor?s pre-understanding of dance..

Syftet med vår uppsats är att undersöka de metoder och tankar som museipedagoger arbetar utifrån. Vi kommer också att belysa i vilken utsträckning lärare i grundskolans tidigare år använder sig av museer och museipedagogik i sin historieundervisning. Syftet är också att ta reda på de huvudsakliga anledningarna till att lärare besöker museer i sin undervisning. Vår undersökning består av enkäter som delats ut till lärare, intervju med en museipedagog och ett besök på ett Museum. Genom vår undersökning har vi kommit fram till att det inte är särskilt många lärare som det senaste året använt sig av museer eller museipedagogik som ett komplement till sin historieundervisning.

This thesis is based on an exhibition at the county Museum Upplandsmuseet in Uppsala, Sweden. During an internship at this Museum I got a chance to produce an exhibition, with some guidance from the Museum staff. This exhibition was created with the purpose of teaching about agriculture in the late 19th century and also about the magnificent workmanship of Alrik Klingberg, who have carved these wooden objects for over 50 years. Each one of the objects possesses a story and a memory. The memories that Alrik Klingberg has incorporated into the objects are mainly from his childhood at a croft in northern Uppland.

This bachelor thesis consists of an analysis of Museum environment. In the research, case studies have been done at the, Stockholm based Museums, Swedish Museum of Natural history?s exhibition Natur i Sverige (Nature in Sweden) and the Nordiska museet?s (Nordic history) exhibition Modemakt (Power of fashion) and learning environment Lekstugan (playhouse). The purpose of the research was to study how cultural heritage is used and developed within the Museum pedagogy aimed at children. The research is based on a multimodal approach with focus on learning resources.The research examines the Museums focus on children and youngsters, what the goals for this focus looks like on respective Museum and how the focus is visible in the actual Museums.

This paper, from Hallwylska Museum collections to the exhibition ?Beneath the surface ... The Unmentionableat the turn of the 20th Century? is a survey of how the Hallwylska Museum on the basis of its collections createsa temporary exhibition. The paper is focusing on how Wilhelmina von Hallwyl`s collections together with theexhibitor`s different intentions from the exhition.

Denna uppsats behandlar en jämförelse hur Auschwitz-Birkenau-museet samt Livrustkammaren arbetar med sina respektive artefakter rörande bevarandeperspektivet. Detta innebär att författarna kommer fokusera på hur respektive Museum arbetar för att bevara autenticiteten i de artefakter som finns. Författarna valde att besöka Oswiecim, mer känt under namnet Auschwitz, som är en stad beläget i södra Polen. Ett besök till Livrustkammaren i Stockholm, Sverige, genomfördes även. Motiveringen för valet av Auschwitz-Birkenau museet samt Livrustkammaren är grundat i att de båda huserar utställningsartefakter vars unika egenskaper inte är påträffbar någon annanstans i världen..

ganization of knowledge at a Museum library: Library of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm in the 20th and the early 21st century [65][pdf.gif] The purpose of this masters thesis is to investigate the organization of knowledge at the Library of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm during the 20th and the early 21st century. The investigation is focusing on the development of the organization of knowledge, of the catalogues, of the classification system and of the information retrieval. The thesis examines the factors which force the development of the activity at the library and of the organization of knowledge. The study uses a qualitative approach which is based on investigations of different types of catalogues, of the electronic database, of the classification system, of the subject indexing and on interviews. A describing analysis is used.

Museums are a part of the cultural sector that over the last couple of years had to compete with the steadily growing consumption of spectacles. New techniques to attract and amaze the visitors have evolved. Living History Museums has developed a method to simulate past times by building up an environment with reconstructions. History is a non-definite science, there will never be an exact answer to how it really was, for example during the Middle Ages.This essay deals with the difference between reconstructions and authentic artefacts and how they build up an illusion of the past. In what sense does it matter if the artefacts are genuine or not? How do these Museums deal with anachronistic phenomena from today's modern world in the historic environment? Additionally I discuss whether or not these reconstructions - of environment, buildings and personal characters - have any influence on the historic narrative given by the Museum.

Att jag valde att skriva ett arbete om lärande på Museum och dess relevans grundar sig i mitt eget intresse för Museum som jag alltid haft. Jag har alltid uppskattat ett museibesök och alltid känt att det varit givande. Därför ville jag med detta arbete ta reda på, med hjälp av Gamla Uppsala Museum, hur de arbetar mot förskolan och vad som ses som relevant för dessa barn. Jag vill ta reda på hur de arbetar och vad de har för syfte bakom det lärande det vill förmedla till barnen. För att ta reda på detta samlade jag på mig tidigare forskning om detta ämne och läste in mig på vad museipedagogik innebär.

The project objective was to make parts of our cultural heritage available as a resource for learning, by developing the pedagogical activities on a medieval castle, that today functions as a Museum. I also wanted to explore the role of a designer in a process that aims to develop the interaction between schools and cultural institutions.By a selection of objects and locations in the castle, illustrations with accompanying texts were made, which through the children?s imaginative ability may bring them to a historical scenario. This resulted in a working material that supports the children?s activities and reflections during their visit to the castle.