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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Museum exhibitions"”.
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Moving Experiences: Traveling Museum Exhibitions and the Infrastructures of Cultural Globalization
In the wake of two world wars, traveling museum exhibitions were touted as a model for advancing peace, broadening the views of diverse publics by compelling museums across borders to share their treasures. In this dissertation, I examine how the establishment of a global infrastructure for museum …
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Creating a framework that mitigates controversy in exhibition design: Saudi women, a case study
Museums today have the possibility of acting as a social changer or influencer within a community by exhibiting current topics, emotional issues, or counter-cultural subjects for the further education and inspiration of visitors. As museum exhibition design becomes more multifaceted and design …
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From physical to virtual : extending the gallery experience online
… space can be developed to complement physical museum exhibitions, as well as create opportunities for museums to reach broader audiences. I provide a critical analysis of current online museum exhibition features and how they support museum curatorial missions. As a case study, I describe from …
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A study of the notions of immersive experience in museum based exhibitions
… explores the notions of immersive experience in museum exhibitions, and examines whether the communication of the exhibition content can be transmitted more effectively to visitors through the creation of an immersive environment. The study reviews the origins and changing interpretations of the …
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The choreography of display : experiential exhibitions in the context of museum practice and theory
… and the experience of constructing and viewing museum exhibitions. Specifically I have been interested in the way in which certain exhibits facilitate powerful emotional responses from their viewers. I suggest that the curators of these kinds of exhibitions employ strategies which not only …
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Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums
<p>The anthropology of museums, or museum ethnography, is a useful tool for critically analyzing the representational strategies of museums and their collections. This thesis focuses on the anthropological discussion of military museums and analysis of the material culture of conflict, and …
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The Artists' Oral History Project
… can contribute to the visitor’s experience of museum exhibitions. Oral history can be a powerful tool to tell a story about the motivations, inspirations and process of creating art. These stories can give museum visitors an access point to gain a deeper understanding of art pieces and …
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Interpreting Disaster: New Orleans Museums Respond to Katrina
… examining the public presence of New Orleans museums in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this work will explore the role of museums in the early process of disaster recovery. The responses of The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and …
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Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History
… coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical project intersects with exhibitions that give prominence to Morisot’s work. Critical reviews by Morisot scholars argue that more frequent display of the artist’s work has not …
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The Bully Pulpit on Display: How Presidential Libraries Present Presidential History
… have portrayed presidential libraries and museums as either whitewashed and propagandist temples to presidents or highly valuable institutions of American democracy. However, the literature lacks a discussion of the curatorial process for creating the contested exhibits and the choices that …
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Scientific racism, mass collecting, and NAGPRA : a study of the transformation of relationships between museums, anthropology, and the public from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
… The relationships between anthropologists and museums in the late 19th and early 20th century set the foundation for both disciplines to make their mark in academia and public discourse. As public fascination with the "other" and racial differences took the center stage in the minds of many …
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Home from Away: Challenging Extinction Discourse through the Repatriation of Indigenous Beothuk Human Remains
… texts (from history books to memorials and museum exhibitions) and tracking the repatriation of remains of two of the last known Beothuk individuals, Nonosabasut and Demasduit, while investigating how those involved in repatriations understand the Beothuk and operate when faced with cases of …
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Control, Detention and Torture in the So-called Global War on Terror
… comprising three books and three solo survey museum exhibitions that form a collective body of research contributing new knowledge about unseen or underrepresented aspects of conflict and counterterrorism in the so-called Global War on Terror, including the detention camps at the US Naval Base …
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Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience
… particularly photobooks, stage plays, film, and museum exhibitions – are visual in nature, and communicate their nostalgic message through their constitution as an image. This thesis contributes novel considerations for the discussion of mid-century Jewish nostalgia by examining the Old World’s …
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Beyond the outfield: Baseball fiction and historical fantasy, 1864-present
… of cultural materials such as pamphlets, films, museum exhibitions, and newspapers, and placing these materials alongside contemporary novels which grapple with baseball’s official history, imagining alternatives to this official history that seek to move beyond baseball as a tool of conquest and …
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Oh, What a Novelty! The Paradoxical Pop-Up Book
… and TV, music, art trails, theatre productions, museum exhibitions, and virtual reality experiences, which all feature a remediated pop-up book. By approaching this seemingly eclectic corpus of texts as a unified group, I expose how the remediated pop-up book presents a valuable tool for …