Contextualising collections

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

There is a collection that an organisation has made of all the posters

generated by the women's movement in India. The idea is to depict the historical evolution of the use of the poster in the women's movement and to be a source of inspiration and education. The collection went around to different parts of the country as an exhibition in the county hall of the major... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 5, 2007

This is a piece about museums and collections.so they may be appropriately

understood. It's a piece I came across on the net,,,, 2.4 Contextualising collections Many museums also conduct extensive research, including oral histories, in the course of their collecting and exhibiting activities. Recent programs which have contributed important insights to aspects of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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This is a piece about museums and collections.so they may be appropriately

understood. It's a piece I came across on the net,,,, 2.4 Contextualising collections Many museums also conduct extensive research, including oral histories, in the course of their collecting and exhibiting activities. Recent programs which have contributed important insights to aspects of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Understanding Palestinian philately - fw something interesting I came acros

A Short Introduction To The Philately Of Palestine Introduction: Mandate and Occupation The Postal Situation (1917-1948) Until the establishment of the civil administration all postal services were provided by Allied Field Post Offices of the Egyptian and Indian Expeditionary Forces (EEF and IEF).... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Applying Statistical methods to Indian numismatics (coin collections)

Endowed with a powerful and far-reaching imagination and an outstanding mathematical ability, Kosambi, who had concentrated his mind almost exclusively upon mathematical research up to 1939, was gradually led to use his abstract methods for obtaining new results in various branches of social... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 27, 2007

There's this person I know who collected various kinds of poundin

instruments and put them together in a museum besides maintaining various kind of old-time household items. Now, as much as this may be a collection of utility items, it is not something that a lay person of simple means can engage in for the sheer cost it entails both to make the collection and to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 5, 2007

What are the collections people commonly make?

Makin a list of political nitwits with their specific nitwitty characteristics, various recipes of noodles n other antiquated collections like stamp-collecting, coin-collecting are some of the collections that people have which i thought of when I called on Editormum's Blog Seeds (for those who do... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 8, 2007

Foraging in garbage a class issue.

Collecting garbage is also about collection. But I guess our non-manual labour community here may not even think of it when we think of collection and its contextualisation. Maybe if hte garbage-collectors wore gloves, could forage in it to look for that rare find, then collecting garbage could... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 7, 2007

I saw a children's day stamp from India the other day. Wonder if there are

children's day postal stamps printed in other parts of the World? Stamp Collectors or friends who know, can you tell me? Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

The world's beauty is crying to be preserved

Some people do collect things which give you a sense of what beauty lies all over the world and remind that that beauty is crying to be preserved. Photos of backwaters. the sunset at the beach, the hills at dawn, fields in the monsoons, what have you.... Sign in to see full entry.

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