Medieval food and colour

For medieval people, colour provided important information about the nature of objects, and that was no less true of what they ate than of anything else. On one level colour might expose moral and spiritual connotations; on another it might offer indications of characteristics of a foodstuff according to medieval humoral theories. Moreover, it was to form an important element in the elite cuisine that developed across Europe from 1200 and perhaps earlier. Display was a crucial part of this cuisine, and this paper demonstrates how and why it was employed, and the ways in which these culinary practices were emulated elsewhere in society. There were general cultural associations between colours and culinary preparations, and some types of dish show common patterns of colouring. However fleeting the colours of foodstuffs, they offer a further dimension to our understanding of meals, the material culture of dining and medieval mentalities.     

博物馆数字展示基本特征分析

展示是博物馆与观众沟通的重要方式。由于对博物馆数字展示本质特征认识不足,博物馆工作者在将数字技术手段应用于展示过程时,极易陷入两大误区:一是忽略数字技术手段的作用,仅将数字化元素作为传统展示的局部点缀;二是过分夸大数字技术手段的作用,大量堆砌数字化元素,形成本末倒置的数字技术秀(show)。本文给出了博物馆数字展示的基本概念,并对博物馆数字展示区别于传统展示的非顺序性、多感性、互动性、虚拟性以及时空延展性等本质特征进行了剖析,以供博物馆数字展示设计与实现工作参考。     

银纳米薄膜试片在博物馆藏展材料评估筛选中的应用

Oddy测试法是一种最为常用的评估材料是否适合博物馆文物储藏与展示的测试方法,其缺点在于采用活性低的块状金属试片,需要28天的测试周期,同时试片表面平整度以及人为主观因素会影响目测结果的准确性.本工作制备了银纳米薄膜试片替代Oddy测试法中块状金属试片,以半径10mm玻璃圆片为基质,银薄膜厚度约为200～220nm.实验结果表明,采用银纳米薄膜试片后,腐蚀现象在14d后可充分显现并分化,延长至28d时腐蚀现象基本无大变化,有效的缩短了测试周期.同时尝试结合数码图像采集技术,有利于进一步的腐蚀现象数据化分析研究工作,从而得到更加客观准确的测试结果.     

探索展示地域文化特色之路──对"长江下游五千年文明"陈列的思考

在南京博物院的陈列中展示地域文化特色,是由南京博物院藏地域文物优势决定的,只有在精品化意识的指导下,通过营造地域文化体系,方能反映出学术研究与陈列艺术水平,达到预期社会效果。     

博物馆藏品利用存在的问题及对策

我国博物馆藏品利用存在着利用率偏低的问题.主要原因归纳为7个方面1.重收藏、轻利用;2.小生产观念;3.畏难退缩、维持现状心态的普遍存在;4.法规不健全、不完善;5.陈列内容和形式单一;6.资金短缺;7.藏品本身的客观属性.对此,应从改革藏品管理体制等6个方面加以解决.     

图象处理方法在研究薄膜试片腐蚀特性中的应用

薄膜试片测试法是一种能够全面有效地对博物馆藏展材料进行评估筛选的测试方法,对其腐蚀现象进行图象采集及进行数据化分析能够得到更为客观准确的测试结果.本工作对应该测试法设计了专门图像采集的硬件装置,采用密闭光源和彩色工业摄像机,可以得到清晰的试片图像.软件系统将采集图像、打开原始图像、图像分割处理、材料分级评价等功能模块化,并根据具体功能设计实现了基本应用的可视化界面.实验表明,该系统能够快速、准确地对藏展材料对试片的腐蚀现象进行数据化分析,使藏展材料的评估分级由人工目测走向计算机视觉计算,具有快速、客观、误差小等特点.     

拜占庭的“展示”研究

本文是2006年伦敦第21届世界拜占庭大会开幕式上的主题发言。从公开、自觉的夸示,世俗生活模式的展示和教俗势力所禁止的习俗表现等3个方面阐释了拜占庭帝国在历史上和现实中“展示”（display）自己的方式,并指出,21世纪拜占庭研究者的任务就是探寻拜占庭文明对其周边世界的影响,将其“展示”于天下。     

Making science at home: visual displays of space science and nuclear physics at the Science Museum and on television in postwar Britain

The public presentation of science and technology in postwar Britain remains a field open to exploration. Current scholarship on the topic is growing but still tends to concentrate on the written word, thus making theorizing, at this stage, difficult. This paper is an attempt to expand the literature through two case studies that compare and synthesize displays of scientific and technological knowledge in two visual media, the Science Museum and television, in the 1950s and 1960s. The topics of these case studies are space exploration and nuclear energy. The thesis this paper explores is that both media fleshed out strategies of displays based on the use of categories from everyday life. As a result, outcomes of large-scale public scientific and technological undertakings were interwoven within audiences’ daily life experiences, thus appearing ordinary rather than extraordinary. This use of symbols and values drawn from private life worked to alleviate fears of risk associated with these new fields of technological exploration and at the same time give them widespread currency in the public sphere.     

新建博物馆的文物保护

新建博物馆在更好地发挥其社会功能的同时,应该正确处理建筑与保护、陈列与保护的关系,既要考虑到建筑的恢弘、典雅,又要考虑到建筑环境、结构、材料等因素对物的影响;对陈列的物既要满足观众对物观赏的要求,又要考虑如何降低光、温、湿度、有害气体对物的破坏作用。     

南宋“刻花填彩攒犀纹”漆器残片的微损检测及髹漆工艺研究

漆器作为中华民族文化的重要象征之一,一直以来都是文保研究者关注的焦点。为了探索微损分析技术在多层漆器分析中的适用性,本工作以浙江省温州市出土的南宋“刻花填彩攒犀纹”漆器残片为研究对象,通过超景深显微镜,正置荧光显微镜,扫描电镜-能谱,显微拉曼光谱,红外光谱,热裂解气相色谱串联质谱等多种科学的分析方法,以揭示多层漆器复杂基质材料/组成、结构及髹漆工艺的微损剖析流程,并总结归纳漆器中常用材料的判断方法,以期为漆器的研究提供技术支持。