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- Bakker, F. T., et al.
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The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education
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Ingår i: PeerJ. - : PeerJ. - 2167-8359. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich communities of amateurs, students, and researchers at all stages of their careers, they can provide a place-based window to focus on integration of science and discovery, as well as a locus for community engagement. At the same time, like a synthesis radio telescope, when joined together through emerging digital resources, the global community of museums (the 'Global Museum') is more than the sum of its parts, allowing insights and answers to diverse biological, environmental, and societal questions at the global scale, across eons of time, and spanning vast diversity across the Tree of Life. We argue that, whereas natural history collections and museums began with a focus on describing the diversity and peculiarities of species on Earth, they are now increasingly leveraged in new ways that significantly expand their impact and relevance. These new directions include the possibility to ask new, often interdisciplinary questions in basic and applied science, such as in biomimetic design, and by contributing to solutions to climate change, global health and food security challenges. As institutions, they have long been incubators for cutting-edge research in biology while simultaneously providing core infrastructure for research on present and future societal needs. Here we explore how the intersection between pressing issues in environmental and human health and rapid technological innovation have reinforced the relevance of museum collections. We do this by providing examples as food for thought for both the broader academic community and museum scientists on the evolving role of museums. We also identify challenges to the realization of the full potential of natural history collections and the Global Museum to science and society and discuss the critical need to grow these collections. We then focus on mapping and modelling of museum data (including place-based approaches and discovery), and explore the main projects, platforms and databases enabling this growth. Finally, we aim to improve relevant protocols for the long-term storage of specimens and tissues, ensuring proper connection with tomorrow's technologies and hence further increasing the relevance of natural history museums.
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- Nord, Anders, et al.
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Pigmentanalys av medeltida muralmålningar i sju norrlandskyrkor
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 112, s. 216-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The authors have sampled and analysed pigments from murals in seven Medieval churches in the northern 2/3 of Sweden. These churches are, listed from south to north: Trönö, Enånger, Hälsingtuna, Alnö, Liden, Grundsunda and Nederluleå.The murals date from c. 1300–1550.The analyses were performed with a Hitachi S-4300 scanning electron microscope. The churches of Enånger and Alnö are richly decorated, and they also yielded the most interesting results. In Enånger we identified ultramarine and yellow volborthite, a rare copper vanadate mineral. In Hälsingtuna the infrequently used mineral vivianite was found. Some of these churches were presumably important sojourns for pilgrims en route along the coast of the Baltic Sea to Nidaros-Trondheim. The murals in the Old church of Nederluleå, 800 km north of Stockholm, are generally attributed to the workshop of the renowned master Albertus Pictor, and our pigment analyses support this. In Trönö, Liden and Grundsunda only fragmentary murals survive. Seven lead pigments were selected from four churches and analyzed with a mass spectrometer to determine their lead isotope ratios. The lead pigments in Hälsingtuna, Grundsunda and Nederluleå originate in Germany, presumably the Harz or Erzgebirge regions. Three lead pigments used at Enånger were found to be a mixture of pigments from Germany and Sweden, in the latter case from the Bergslagen region, where mines were worked quite early. This is the first time that we have identified a Medieval lead pigment with a Swedish origin.
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