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Discussed in the web

Hi Dan, nating the information in case the artefacts appear on
the market.
I was brought up with the explanation that all partly
sighted people prefer black on white. Pictures are available on the University of Bergen web-
site and FB:
Christian Mueller-Straten http://w w w.uib.no/aktuelt/109802/innbrud-
verlagcms@t-online.de det-p%C3%A5-universitetsmuseet-i-bergen
h t t p s : / / w w w . f a ce b o o k . c o m / m e d i a/
set/?set=oa.716168091907676&type=1
Dear Dan,
Fashions in exhibit look and feel are interesting and I would kindly ask Craig Hadley and Esther Boeles to dis-
hopefully still address readability. seminate this information through the AAMG and Univer-
seum channels, respectively.
I’ve included links to two good references on guidelines
for making exhibit content accessible. If colleagues know Thank you. Kind regards,
of others they like, please share. Contrast is one of the Marta C. Lourenço,
most critical elements in font and background color UMAC-ICOM President. University of Lisbon
choice. Lighting and reflection on materials makes an spread by Jens Lill, jens.lill@bsz-bw.de
enormous difference as well but won’t make up for poor
contrast. Thank you, Mr Lill,

In aquariums and other dark exhibit spaces, back-lit however, it is astonishing that a list of stolen objects was
graphics with reverse type is more common. We often not uploaded to the internet until August 15, 2017. Here,
prototype color and font changes in the space to make by the way, large pictures are to be seen, but probably
sure we’re keeping enough contrast. still only a part of these 400 objects: http://www.uib.
no/aktuelt/109865/stj%C3%A5lne-gjenstander-fra-uni-
https://www.si.edu/accessibility/sgaed versitetsmuseet
https://www.nps.gov/hfc/accessibility/guidelines/#h. From the possibility of such a theft one can only learn.
j4ek8gij93kn
C. Mueller-Straten
Thanks for initiating a discussion and information sharing verlagcms@t-online.de
on this important subject.
Hi,
Jenny-Sayre Ramberg the overview of https://www.flickr.com/photos/uniber-
JSRamberg@AQUA.ORG gen/sets/72157687831614626 is said to be actualized day
by day, but hitherto onlyr 93 photographs were upload-
3) Objects stolen from the University of ed. A similar list can be found on Facebook accesible
Bergen Museum without registration: https://www.facebook.com/me-
dia/set/?set=oa.716168091907676&type=1
Dear UMAC members and friends,
Kind regards
Last August 14, some 400 artefacts belonging to the col-
lections of the Bergen University Museum, in Norway, Jan Selmer
were stolen. If not recovered, this is an incredible loss of j.selmer@zeitensprung.de
Norwegian and universal heritage.
Dear Mr Selmer,
The robbery has been reported in the news. During the
night, several burglars climbed a scaffold, entered the Thank you, Mr. Selmer, Mr. Lill had posted this already.
storage on the 7th floor of the Museum, and raided the Unfortunately, only a small part of the 400 stolen ob-
collection. jects from the Iron Age and Viking Period is meanwhile
published. It would be interesting to see why the muse-
https://www.thelocal.no/20170814/high-value-ob- um is unable to upload the stolen objects into the web
jects-stolen-from-norway-museum quickly. The corresponding detailed descriptions are
also missing. As I said, you can only learn from it, with-
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1486633/400-viking-ob- out stepping on somebody's toes.
jects-stolen-norway-museum-heist/
Kind regards
UMAC has contacted the Bergen University Museum Di- C. Mueller-Straten
rector, Henrik von Achen. The focus is now on dissemi- verlagcms@t-online.de

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