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International Museum Day 2025: The future of museums in rapidly changing communities
What does the future of museums look like in the wake of rapidly changing communities? This is the question the International Council of Museums seeks to explore during this year’s International Museum Day (IMD), a global event which highlights the transformative role of museums in society on the 18th of May...
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Tracing Sámi Histories in Oslo: From Lars Hætta's Imprisonment to Museum Collections
During our recent visit to Oslo, Norway, as part of the ArcticHeritage project, we explored into the life and legacy of Lars Hætta, who was imprisoned at Akershus Fortress following the Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino) Rebellion. Our visit was dedicated to examining Hætta’s experiences during his imprisonment, with particular attention to the...
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Artifacts from the University's Museums and Special Collections on exhibit in China
More than 120 items from the University’s Egyptian archaeology collection are being exhibited in venues across China throughout 2024. “Meet Ancient Egypt: Mummy, Life and Death in Ancient Egypt” is made up entirely of items on loan from the University of Aberdeen and was designed by Meet You Museum. Artifacts in...
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Emeritus Professor Tim Ingold Awarded CBE!
We are very proud to announce that our colleague Tim Ingold, author of The Perception of the Environment, Lines and other key anthropological texts, has been awarded a CBE for his services to Anthropology! To learn more, visit the article at the Press and Journal.
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Martin Mills published in Monks, Money and Morality
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research, Dr Martin Mills, has been published in a new volume, Monks, Money and Morality: The Balancing Act of Contemporary Buddhism, edited by Christoph Brumann, Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko and Beata Switek. The book shows the key position of economic exchanges...
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Ethnographic Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities Workshop
On 4th and 16th March 2021, the Universities of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt hosted a Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Cultural and Museum Studies Catalyst online workshop: Ethnographic Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities.
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'Honourable mention' for Museum Anthropology book
"Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces" by Alison Brown, of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and Laura Peers of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, has received an Honourable Mention in the American Anthropological Association's Council for Museum Anthropology Book Awards.