Material Culture & Museum Studies

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8 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Material Culture & Museum Studies. They span 12 subdomains — sort by that column to group them, or click any subdomain to filter to it.

Abstraction	Subdomain	Description
Exhibit design	Museum and Exhibition Design	The interdisciplinary process of shaping content, objects, media, space, sequence, interaction, accessibility, and operations into a coherent visitor experience.
Film Preservation	Moving Image ArchivesAudiovisual Preservation	The continuing archival practice of identifying, stabilizing, storing, duplicating or migrating, documenting, and providing responsible access to moving-image works so they survive as close as practicable to their historically warranted forms.
Microfadeometry	Conservation Science	Microfadeometry, also more popularly known as Microfading or MFT, is a technique that uses tiny spots of intense light to probe and measure color changes in objects of art that are particularly sensitive to light exposure.
Pile Insertion through a Backing	Pile TextilesRug Making	A textile pile method that inserts separate yarn or fabric through an already formed backing to make a retained raised surface.
Straw plaiting	Straw Craft and Plaiting	Interlace prepared straw stems or splints in a repeatable crossing sequence to form a flexible, coherent band or surface that can be joined into functional or decorative objects.
Supplementary weaving	Textile Studies	A decorative weave structure adding extra warp or weft threads to form motifs over an independently coherent ground fabric.
Thrumming (textiles)	Textile Handcraft and Dress HistoryTextile Techniques	A textile technique that pulls separate short wool or yarn pieces through a fabric base to leave a shaggy surface or warm inner lining, as in thrum caps, mittens, and mats.
Type casting (typography)	Printing HistoryMovable Type Manufacture	The manufacture of reusable metal printing sorts by filling a mould containing a character matrix with type metal, producing repeatable bodies of standardized height and width.