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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"and museum studies"”.
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Settler Colonialism in U.S. Popular Media as Influencing Perceptions of Material Culture and Museum Ethics
… not first encounter ethics of material culture and collecting solely by visiting a museum. This MA Thesis seeks to look at how action-adventure "treasure-hunting" media introduces people to fields such as archaeology, anthropology, and museum studies through entertainment media. Frameworks of …
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
<p>This thesis focuses on better museum practices, social justice museums, and the unforeseen challenges that museums encounter when collaborating and consulting with communities. More specifically, this project looks at the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) and the exhibit <em>Report to the …
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The Art of Learning and the Learning of Art through the Marriage of History and Innovation: A DC Museum and College of the Arts
… of human learning, specifically related to arts and culture, and how a community interacts with and creates its own art and memory. Historically, the museum has functioned as a type of self-guided institute of higher learning for the public. It has been utilized to display and memorialize works …
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DECOLONIAL MUSEUM MATH: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THE DISPLAY STRATEGIES IN THE ISLAMIC ART GALLERIES AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO AND THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
Calls to “decolonize” the museum have reverberated through the fields of anthropology, art history, and museum studies in the past few years. But what might a “decolonized” museum exhibit look like in practice? This paper presents two case studies, the Islamic galleries at the Art Institute of …
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Towards a Definition of Digital Narratives in Art Museums
This thesis defines art museums’ online resources as narratives in response to the following question: How can online resources, such as online exhibitions, online publications, and similar resources, be accurately and systematically defined? The aim of this definition is to provide adetailed, …
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Community uses of maritime heritage in Bermuda: a heritage ethnography with museum implications
… research contributes to the fields of heritage and museum studies with a threefold objective: conceptualise heritage as a process, using an appropriate research method, with implications for museums. The work correspondingly helps to redress the undertheorisation of heritage, the inadequacy of …
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The Plot and The Archive: Curation, Provisional Histories, and Novels
The Plot and the Archive applies museum studies and curatorial techniques to post-1960s novels dealing with history and outlines the importance of a figure called the character-as-curator within such spaces. This figure exemplifies different strategies employed to interrogate, analyze and reconcile …
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Towards the collaborative museum? Social media, participation, disciplinary experts and the public in the contemporary museum
This thesis examines the use of social media by museums aiming to establish collaborative relationships with the public. Social media platforms have been widely espoused as transformative in allowing diverse, new or previously excluded audiences to enter into egalitarian, participatory …
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Truths of Indian Boarding School: A Symposium
<p>Museums are increasingly engaging with socially conscious content. This is a reflection of the public’s perception that museums are sites of truth and will present complete and honest information of complicated issues. The following project will propose a symposium stemming from the need for …