The National Museum of Iceland was established on 24 February 1863, with Jón Árnason the first curator of the Icelandic collection, previously kept in Danish museums.
Robert H. Giles is a former curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with the objective of promoting the art and science of photography, and in 1853 received royal patronage from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The Art Libraries Society of North America was founded in 1972. It is an organization made up of approximately 1,000 art librarians, library students and visual resource professionals.
The National Technical Museum (NTM) in Prague is the largest institution dedicated to preserving information and artifacts related to the history of technology in the Czech Republic. The museum has large exhibits representing approximately 15% of its total collection. The museum also manages substantial archives consisting of approximately 3,500 linear shelf meters of archival material and about 250,000 books. The museum was founded in 1908 and has been in its current location since 1941.
The UCD School of History is the department of University College Dublin which is responsible for the study of history. As of 2020, it was reputedly one of "the top 100 history schools in the world". It was established at the foundation of the University in 1854.
The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) is a global organisation for conservation and restoration professionals with over two thousand members in over fifty countries. IIC seeks to promote the knowledge, methods and working standards needed to protect and preserve historic and artistic works throughout the world.
An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as an authority on it.
The Westminster Abbey Museum was located in the 11th-century vaulted undercroft beneath the former monks' dormitory in Westminster Abbey, London, England. This was located in one of the oldest areas of the abbey, dating back almost to the foundation of the Romanesque church by Edward the Confessor in 1065. This space had been used as a museum since 1908.
The Museum of Indian Culture is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and educational center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Alissandra Cummins is a Barbadian art historian, educator, and scholar; she is a leading expert on Caribbean heritage, museum development, and art. Cummins is Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and she is a lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of the West Indies. She is board chair of International Journal of Intangible Heritage. She is on the board of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, and the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. She was the Chairperson of the UNESCO Executive Board, from 2011 to 2013.
Hipertext.net is a biannual open access Peer review academic journal covering all aspects of information, documentation and archives in the digital world and Interactive Communication. It is published by the Information Science Section of the Communication Department of the Pompeu Fabra University and was established in 2003 by Cristòfol Rovira, Lluís Codina, and Mari-Carmen Marcos.
Object literacy is a relatively new term that has grown out of Object Based Learning (OBL), which has long been a fundamental part of museum and library work. The increasing availability of digital images and texts makes objects more accessible than ever. Now that the objects and texts are more available, there is an increasing interest in the physicality of the object or text, and a growing understanding of the need to understand objects and texts in the fullest, most comprehensive context.
Frank Woolnough (1845–1930) was the curator of Ipswich Museum from 1893–1920. He also published material under the pseudonym Felix Walton.
Terezín Initiative is a voluntary organization for survivors of the Theresienstadt Ghetto and other Holocaust survivors from the Czech lands, as well as their descendants. It publishes a journal, Časopis Terezínská iniciativa. Terezín Initiative was one of the main collaborators in an effort to create a machine-readable database of the 150,000 victims of Theresienstadt. It also helped form the Terezín Ghetto Museum, and contributed money to the project. For many years until her death in 2018, Dagmar Lieblová was its president.
Museums and Digital Culture (2019), edited by Tula Giannini and Jonathan P. Bowen, who are also the authors of 12 chapters, is an interdisciplinary book about developments in digital culture with respect to museums.
Prof. Tula Giannini is an American academic with subject expertise in musicology, digital culture, and digital heritage.
Peter Cannon-Brookes is a British art historian, with a special interest in Czech sculpture, and a curator who founded the journal Museum Management and Curatorship.
The Tribal Museum of Bhopal or Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum is located close to the State Museum, Bhopal, near the Museum of Man/ Museum of Mankind in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. This is a museum dedicated to the living aspects of tribal life, indigenous knowledge systems, and aesthetics.
Events in the year 1863 in Iceland.
