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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Museum staff."”.
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Sensitivity Training Symposium: For Museum Staff and Docents
<p>To address the concerns of disabled museum patrons, this capstone posits a Sensitivity Training Symposium for museum docents, staff, and volunteers. These disabilities range from vision impairment to dementia and even autism. This study will analyze how to treat people with disabilities, …
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Manifestations: Displays of Internal Beliefs and Perspectives
… influences, and insights of specific Field Museum staff in regard to exhibitions and the future of the Field Museum. It is people that make up museums and create exhibitions, and their beliefs not only influence and guide them, but also their institution and what they develop. Grounded in …
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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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Disconnect Within the Museum Workplace
Observations by museum professionals discuss a growing disconnect between museum staff and their administrators regarding work expectations. To determine if this divide is part of a developing trend or an isolated phenomenon, surveys were created for administrators and staff and sent to …
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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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Stories of Return: A Collection of Repatriation Narratives
… of Indigenous curatorial methods into museum collections practices. The project explores repatriation and collections caretaking practices at ten settler institutions through narratives of experience collected from museum staff. The findings of this research suggest that repatriation …
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Examining Holocaust education museum-initiated professional development: The perspective of museum educators during planning and implementation
Museums today frequently consider education as one of their priorities. As such, museum administrators will provide resources, field trips, or professional development opportunities to support teachers and schools. In an era of high-stakes testing, museums, like schools, are also influenced by …
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Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
… of Indigenous human rights at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this study examines how museums can represent, educate, and advocate for Indigenous human rights. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out at the museum in July 2019 and the …
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Volunteers in America: How Volunteerism and American Civil Society Shape Our Museums
… examines the intersection of volunteerism, museum studies, and American civil society, using these frameworks to examine volunteer motivations within two Denver area art museums. Additionally, there is much current scholarship that focuses on the relationship between museums and community, …
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Engaging the Permanent Collection: Program Development for Art Museums
… public programming development for the de Young Museum’s Friday night program in San Francisco California in order to highlight the permanent collection. The purpose of this project is to reignite interest in an aspect of an art museum’s permanent collection. A solution that I am proposing is to …
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Evaluation of 21st Century Skills in Museum Field Trips
… the 4Cs during field trips at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). In 2010, the National Education Association identified four skills (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity) that students will need in 21<sup>st</sup> century academia and workplaces. …
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Power to the People: A Comprehensive Look at Crowdsourcing Initiatives in Cultural Institutions
… help of the general populous. These projects aid museum staff by processing large quantities of data, which otherwise could not be completed due to time and/or staff restraints. Through crowdsourcing, cultural institutions have the ability to outsource these tasks to volunteers, who can complete …
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Museum Informatics and the Evolution of an Information Infrastructure in a University Museum
From 1997 to 2002, Spurlock Museum staff members inventoried, packed, and moved their collections from old to new facilities, despite having little experience with any of these tasks. Unable to plan ahead with any confidence, they had to build an information infrastructure to support these …
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Parental scaffolding: a case study of low-income families at a children's museum
… that low-income parents used in a children’s museum. The primary research question is ""How might low-income parents scaffold their preschool-aged children in an early childhood exhibition in a children’s museum?"" with a supporting question of ""How is parental scaffolding facilitated or …
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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials
<p>Museums are places where events of the past can be explained, appreciated, and understood. While efforts are often taken to provide a neutral position in the presentation of complicated and emotional historical events, there may exist external pressure to present a more overtly nationalist …
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Museum-Based Teacher Education: Teacher Meaning-Making at a Jewish Heritage Museum
… professional development at a Jewish heritage museum in a mandate state. By understanding these meanings, the educational community can better understand how a particular context and approach influences teacher meaning-making and the ways in which museum teacher education programs shape the …
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Planning for a learning society : Minnestrista Cultural Center and Oakhurst Gardens in Ball State University's professional development schools network
… the focus of educational renewal by including a museum as one of its official network sites. This two-part museum, Minnetrista Cultural Center and Oakhurst Gardens, brings community partnership to the focus, incrementally enlarging educational environments and experiences beyond the school …
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Easier said than done : assessing Texas museums' readiness to diversify their workforces.
The museum has long been perceived as one of the great stalwarts of our society, a position that does not often come with much scrutiny, allowing museums to carry on much like they always have. This lack of pressure to change have left museums with a workforce that does not reflect the communities …
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Novel methods for the detection of historical biocidal residues in heritage environments
… for the developed methods was performed by museum staff after sending samplers to institutions via Royal Mail, highlighting the ease with which sample collection for these techniques can be conducted. The analysis showed that the concentrations of the substances detected in air were not …