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La lettre n°208 : 24-33, 2024
Proofing human remains collections from the Strasbourg Zoological Museum. This verification incr... more Proofing human remains collections from the Strasbourg Zoological Museum.
This verification increases the documentation on the collections before Museum reopening and will help to anticipate possible requests for restitution.
This work also opens up new reflections both in terms of management and ethics. The impact of recent evolution of French law on the restitution of human remains is also discussed (https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000048668800).
La Lettre de l’OCIM
Squelettes montés à des fins d'enseignement médical. Galerie d'anatomie de l'université de Strasb... more Squelettes montés à des fins d'enseignement médical. Galerie d'anatomie de l'université de Strasbourg. © M. Van Praët La restitution des restes humains présents dans les collections françaises
Michel Van Praet, 2023
Le Musée de l'Homme à Paris comporte l'une des plus importantes collections mondiales de restes h... more Le Musée de l'Homme à Paris comporte l'une des plus importantes collections mondiales de restes humains et il est utile de comprendre ce que signifie l'abondance des crânes dans cette collection de 20 000 éléments.
Museum International, 2019
The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historic... more The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historical changes. The meaning of the terms defining the concept - collection, culture, heritage, public - has been clarified, and they are now frequently used in plural forms to take into account, for example, the diversity of cultural heritages and the diversity of audiences. As the museum concept was exported outside of Europe, where it was originally conceived, each society adopted it by blending it with the diversity of its own cultural representations and practices. This was not least the case when museums were implanted into a colonial context, and when the concept of cultural heritage did not focus on the materiality of human and natural productions. The paper will briefly analyze how, within museums, convergences and competitions between disciplines have shaped their current specializations and those of their collections. It is considered how the materiality of the collections is a modern factor of creativity, and will encourage museums to go beyond their thematic specialization in order to augment the role of the collections in addressing current scientific and social questions as anthropocene crisis.
Historia Ciencias Saude Manguinhos, 2005
Museum International, 2004
The question of the relationship between museums and intangible heritage has been debated ever si... more The question of the relationship between museums and intangible heritage has been debated ever since natural heritage was introduced into the field of interest of museums and natural parks in the 19th century. Rather than address the various accepted meanings of the concept of natural heritage � it encompasses here, both the restricted definitions focused on the protection of living species, as well as definitions that extend to human societies and their practices in various environments � emphasis will be placed on the extent to which museums of natural history and more largely science museums have been affected and transformed by the concept of intangible heritage
ABSTRACT Bleaching and death of corals were observed in May-June 1983 at Mayotte Island. All hydr... more ABSTRACT Bleaching and death of corals were observed in May-June 1983 at Mayotte Island. All hydrocorals and many scleractinians were affected in upper levels (0-12 m deep) in the lagoon and on the outer slope of the barrier reef. Even corals well-adapted to siltation suffered, as well as soft corals, zoanthids and actinarians. This coral bleaching was associated in Goniopora with the loss of the symbiotic zooxantellae, that moerover showed cellular alterations. Abnormal environmental conditions observed seemed to be the causative agents of this large desequilibrium of the coral reef ecosystem. It was expressed by the shift of the infralittoral assemblages dominated by scleractinian corals, to soft algal and soft coral facies.
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 2005
Em sua primeira visita ao Brasil, em 2001, os professores Michel Van Praet, Jean Davallon e Danie... more Em sua primeira visita ao Brasil, em 2001, os professores Michel Van Praet, Jean Davallon e Daniel Jacobi, pesquisadores e profissionais do campo museal francês, discutiram a natureza complexa da experiência museal. Michel Van Praet salienta a particularidade dos museus de história natural e avalia o trabalho que realisou à frente do projeto de renovação da Grande Galeria da Evolução do Museu Nacional de História Natural, inaugurada, em 1994, em Paris. Jean Davallon discute a contribuição da semiótica e da teoria da recepção para analisar como a exposição comunica e como se dá a construção de sentido em seu interior. Daniel Jacobi define algumas características da divulgação das ciências nos museus e aponta dificuldades para a sua realização. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: museus, ciência, educação não formal, divulgação científica, teoria da comunicação, museologia.
Museum International, 2004
La Lettre de l’OCIM, 2013
Museum International n°71, pp. 38-47, 2019
The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historic... more The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historical changes. The meaning of the terms defining the concept - collection, culture, heritage, public - has been clarified, and they are now frequently used in plural forms to take into account, for example, the diversity of cultural heritages and the diversity of audiences. As the museum concept was exported outside of Europe, where it was originally conceived, each society adopted it by blending it with the diversity of its own cultural representations and practices. This was not least the case when museums were implanted into a colonial context, and when the concept of cultural heritage did not focus on the materiality of human and natural productions.
The paper will briefly analyze how, within museums, convergences and competitions between disciplines have shaped their current specializations and those of their collections. It is considered how the materiality of the collections is a modern factor of creativity, and will encourage museums to go beyond their thematic specialization in order to augment the role of the collections in addressing current scientific and social questions as anthropocene crisis.
La Lettre de l'Ocim n°183, pp. 60-63, 2019
La Lettre de l’OCIM a demandé à Michel Van Praët son ressenti sur la problématique des restes hum... more La Lettre de l’OCIM a demandé à Michel Van Praët son ressenti sur la problématique des restes humains en collection, alors que le groupe de travail qu’il anime sur le sujet des restes humains dans les collections publiques françaises, a remis un second rapport aux tutelles et vient de publier un vade-mecum des bonnes pratiques.
Books by Michel Van Praët
Vade-mecum. Les restes humains dans les collections publiques. ISBN 978-2-36441-317-7, 2019
Diversity of the 150.000 human remains in French collections. Ethic principles and law. Glossary ... more Diversity of the 150.000 human remains in French collections. Ethic principles and law. Glossary of good practices.
La lettre n°208 : 24-33, 2024
Proofing human remains collections from the Strasbourg Zoological Museum. This verification incr... more Proofing human remains collections from the Strasbourg Zoological Museum.
This verification increases the documentation on the collections before Museum reopening and will help to anticipate possible requests for restitution.
This work also opens up new reflections both in terms of management and ethics. The impact of recent evolution of French law on the restitution of human remains is also discussed (https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000048668800).
La Lettre de l’OCIM
Squelettes montés à des fins d'enseignement médical. Galerie d'anatomie de l'université de Strasb... more Squelettes montés à des fins d'enseignement médical. Galerie d'anatomie de l'université de Strasbourg. © M. Van Praët La restitution des restes humains présents dans les collections françaises
Michel Van Praet, 2023
Le Musée de l'Homme à Paris comporte l'une des plus importantes collections mondiales de restes h... more Le Musée de l'Homme à Paris comporte l'une des plus importantes collections mondiales de restes humains et il est utile de comprendre ce que signifie l'abondance des crânes dans cette collection de 20 000 éléments.
Museum International, 2019
The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historic... more The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historical changes. The meaning of the terms defining the concept - collection, culture, heritage, public - has been clarified, and they are now frequently used in plural forms to take into account, for example, the diversity of cultural heritages and the diversity of audiences. As the museum concept was exported outside of Europe, where it was originally conceived, each society adopted it by blending it with the diversity of its own cultural representations and practices. This was not least the case when museums were implanted into a colonial context, and when the concept of cultural heritage did not focus on the materiality of human and natural productions. The paper will briefly analyze how, within museums, convergences and competitions between disciplines have shaped their current specializations and those of their collections. It is considered how the materiality of the collections is a modern factor of creativity, and will encourage museums to go beyond their thematic specialization in order to augment the role of the collections in addressing current scientific and social questions as anthropocene crisis.
Historia Ciencias Saude Manguinhos, 2005
Museum International, 2004
The question of the relationship between museums and intangible heritage has been debated ever si... more The question of the relationship between museums and intangible heritage has been debated ever since natural heritage was introduced into the field of interest of museums and natural parks in the 19th century. Rather than address the various accepted meanings of the concept of natural heritage � it encompasses here, both the restricted definitions focused on the protection of living species, as well as definitions that extend to human societies and their practices in various environments � emphasis will be placed on the extent to which museums of natural history and more largely science museums have been affected and transformed by the concept of intangible heritage
ABSTRACT Bleaching and death of corals were observed in May-June 1983 at Mayotte Island. All hydr... more ABSTRACT Bleaching and death of corals were observed in May-June 1983 at Mayotte Island. All hydrocorals and many scleractinians were affected in upper levels (0-12 m deep) in the lagoon and on the outer slope of the barrier reef. Even corals well-adapted to siltation suffered, as well as soft corals, zoanthids and actinarians. This coral bleaching was associated in Goniopora with the loss of the symbiotic zooxantellae, that moerover showed cellular alterations. Abnormal environmental conditions observed seemed to be the causative agents of this large desequilibrium of the coral reef ecosystem. It was expressed by the shift of the infralittoral assemblages dominated by scleractinian corals, to soft algal and soft coral facies.
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 2005
Em sua primeira visita ao Brasil, em 2001, os professores Michel Van Praet, Jean Davallon e Danie... more Em sua primeira visita ao Brasil, em 2001, os professores Michel Van Praet, Jean Davallon e Daniel Jacobi, pesquisadores e profissionais do campo museal francês, discutiram a natureza complexa da experiência museal. Michel Van Praet salienta a particularidade dos museus de história natural e avalia o trabalho que realisou à frente do projeto de renovação da Grande Galeria da Evolução do Museu Nacional de História Natural, inaugurada, em 1994, em Paris. Jean Davallon discute a contribuição da semiótica e da teoria da recepção para analisar como a exposição comunica e como se dá a construção de sentido em seu interior. Daniel Jacobi define algumas características da divulgação das ciências nos museus e aponta dificuldades para a sua realização. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: museus, ciência, educação não formal, divulgação científica, teoria da comunicação, museologia.
Museum International, 2004
La Lettre de l’OCIM, 2013
Museum International n°71, pp. 38-47, 2019
The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historic... more The museum, like any cultural construct that has lasted several centuries, has undergone historical changes. The meaning of the terms defining the concept - collection, culture, heritage, public - has been clarified, and they are now frequently used in plural forms to take into account, for example, the diversity of cultural heritages and the diversity of audiences. As the museum concept was exported outside of Europe, where it was originally conceived, each society adopted it by blending it with the diversity of its own cultural representations and practices. This was not least the case when museums were implanted into a colonial context, and when the concept of cultural heritage did not focus on the materiality of human and natural productions.
The paper will briefly analyze how, within museums, convergences and competitions between disciplines have shaped their current specializations and those of their collections. It is considered how the materiality of the collections is a modern factor of creativity, and will encourage museums to go beyond their thematic specialization in order to augment the role of the collections in addressing current scientific and social questions as anthropocene crisis.
La Lettre de l'Ocim n°183, pp. 60-63, 2019
La Lettre de l’OCIM a demandé à Michel Van Praët son ressenti sur la problématique des restes hum... more La Lettre de l’OCIM a demandé à Michel Van Praët son ressenti sur la problématique des restes humains en collection, alors que le groupe de travail qu’il anime sur le sujet des restes humains dans les collections publiques françaises, a remis un second rapport aux tutelles et vient de publier un vade-mecum des bonnes pratiques.
Vade-mecum. Les restes humains dans les collections publiques. ISBN 978-2-36441-317-7, 2019
Diversity of the 150.000 human remains in French collections. Ethic principles and law. Glossary ... more Diversity of the 150.000 human remains in French collections. Ethic principles and law. Glossary of good practices.
Rapport de l'Université de Strasbourg (France), 2024