The relation between museum and visitors is recurrent in investigations of the areas of Museology and Information Science. In the first area, the investigations are denominated study of public and the second one is supported by user studies. This way, the present research aims to analyze the...

This paper provides an overview of the main women's museums existing worldwide, taking as its source the International Association of Women's Museums. It also explores the history of their creation and problematises their relationship with women's history and the concept of gender museology. It...

This paper discusses issues that are faced in building practice of the Museu do Alto Sertão da Bahia - MASB. On the one hand, this experience is marked by inspirations that come from movements and trends such as Sociomuseology, posing in the background aspects of institutionalization of museums,...

The humanity began with the recollection. The myths, the stories and history take us to there. From the recollection to collection passed millennia. And millennia also passed to the "House of the Muses". Both the West as in the East. As millennia (since less) passed to the "Cabinets of Curiosities" ...

The objective this article is to analyze the possibility of communication and the search of information about virtual Museums' object on-line between researcher and institution. So, the text was developed by three cases like methodology to compare Virtual Museums (VMs) and Actual Museums (AMs) in...

The purpose of this article is to briefly present a historical overview shows that, even didactically, as the museum moved to the company from the twentieth century, and what their categories and types were most striking and nearby tourism.

The purpose of this special issue is to contribute to the different areas dedicated to reflections on museological spaces (physical, virtual or hybrid) and museological knowledge, focusing mainly from a tourism perspective. It presents analyses of social, anthropological, historical, political and...

The purpose of this special issue is to contribute to the various areas dedicated to reflections on museological spaces (physical, virtual or hybrid) and museological knowledge, especially from the perspective of tourism. The nine papers analyse social, anthropological, historical, political and...

This essay proposes to narrate about what happened one afternoon when amadianos readers met in the gardens of the Rodin Museum, one of the moments of Reading, programmed by Proler-Salvador, for a reunion and a reinterpretation of the most controversial, and most read more emblematic book by Jorge...

The present article aims to establish a theoretical intersection of the key concepts elaborated by Ludwick Fleck and Pierre Bourdieu, taking into account the possibility of complementarity of their reflections in the field of Museology, specifically with regard to the institutional social agent of...