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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Museum exhibits."”.
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From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits
<p>In my dissertation, I examine contemporary exhibits about African American history and culture at six museums to explore issues of racial representation, collective identity, and cultural authority. I conduct a systematic two-part investigation of exhibition practices across Black-owned/operated …
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Digital Docent: An Analysis of Accessibility in the Digital Music Space
… to the general public through the public-facing museum format, I wanted to examine how digital music museum exhibits and experiences can be made accessible and if it is possible to fully represent what an in-person exhibit can offer. In 2010, Smithsonian created a comprehensive document on …
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A Dire Request: The Effects of Public Outreach on the Professionalization of Conservation in the United States
… on public understanding of conservation and museums, and how these effects impacted the development of conservation as a profession and a practice in the United States. The conservation field has long struggled to achieve professional status in American society. Since the mid-twentieth …
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The Contemporary Critique of Ethnographic Exhibits: A Case Study at Discovery Center Springfield
<p>The recent scholarly critique of ethnographic museum exhibits clearly calls for greater incorporation of four main principles: reflexivity, multivocality, contextuality, and interactivity. Unfortunately, many if not most current exhibits on culture do not incorporate all or any of these …
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Remembering Together: Native Boarding School Stories on Display
… stories have been displayed using two current museum exhibits: “Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” at the Heard Museum, and the Phoenix Indian School Visitors Center, a small gallery in one of the remaining school buildings. For this analysis I interviewed key players in …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
… the Civil War including monuments, battlefields, museum exhibits, burial rituals, historical reenactments, paintings, and dramatic performances. These mnemonic sites and rituals throughout the Great Valley of Virginia serve to circulate a dominant and mythologized reading of the Civil War past, …
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Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space
… pursuits. By treating Fallout as a kind of museum, this thesis explores how the game's layered storytelling methods, akin to museum exhibits, critique Americentric sensibilities and the ideological underpinnings of the Atomic Age. Through detailed case studies of in-game museums and …
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A system of applications for the integration of BLE Beacons in museums
… BLE beacon technology to be incorporated into museum exhibits to provide more enriching content to visitors and gather feedback to improve the museum overall. I developed a system of three applications to accomplish these goals: one for museum staff to easily deploy and update beacons, another …
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Wild West in Upstate New York: Native American Culture, Performances, and Public Debates about Indian Affairs, 1880s-1930s
… these events –Wild West shows, dances, living museum exhibits, mock battles with torturing, and so on—were just as popular in upstate New York as around the nation. Focusing on the Rochester area, managers variously portrayed Native Americans as savage, vanishing, or noble, depending on the …
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Rethinking Landscape Interpretation: Form, Function, and Meaning of the Garfield Farm, 1876-1905
… currently interpreted exclusively through indoor museum exhibits and outdoor wayside panels, two formats with severe limitations. I propose the integration of deep mapping into interpretation at James A. Garfield National historic site in order to more effectively represent the multi-layered …
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Reimagining the museum experience using augmented reality: A focus on a Namibian museum
This study seeks to revolutionize the museum experience in Namibia through the implementation of AR Specifically, a focus was made on the National Museum of Namibia and developed an AR mobile application using ARKit and Reality Composer on the iOS platform. To gain a deeper understanding of …
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Enhancing Motivation Using the Constructs of Flow in Museum Education Activities
While many extol the general value of museum fieldtrips, few can describe the specific parameters needed to make the excursion an educational benefit. Oftentimes, a day at the Museum of Natural History or time spent at the local art gallery is casually put into place with little forethought or …
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Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum
… venues: the trading post, the natural history museum, and the fine art museum. The study concludes that the fine art museum has the most potential to foster a dialogue about the contemporary Navajo, whose identity is a product of continuity and change. Chapter one discusses the basket's …
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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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Traveling exhibits : history, utilization, and changing perceptions.
Beginning with the earliest form of traveling exhibits, through its evolution and revolution of the 1970s, to the recent trends of for-profit enterprises, traveling exhibits have become increasingly popular to museums, resulting in a change of public and institutional perception of museums. A …
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Museums and the construction of race ideologies: the case of natural history and ethnographic museums in South Africa
… of the Natural History and Ethnographic museums in the construction of racist ideologies, the perpetuation of colonial reasoning and its continuities in South Africa today. It draws our attention to the fact that the museological institution was complicit and colluded in the perpetuation …
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Waiting: History, Fear, and Healing in Ballynafeigh / the Upper Ormeau Road of Belfast, Northern Ireland
… narratives about Northern Ireland are told in museum exhibits and “Troubles tours,” and ends by arguing that museums can potentially be spaces of healing, creativity, and mental health.</p> <p>This dissertation is the result of fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with residents, …
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