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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"history museums"”.
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Decolonizing Natural History Museums Through Volunteer Engagement
In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural history museum is attempting to decolonize, they must do so at all levels of …
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Museums That "Matter": An Analysis of Four History Museums
Museums have, in recent years, experienced an increasing amount of pressure to fulfill their role as public institutions for both education and entertainment. For museums to ensure their success in this role, they must constantly investigate their operations in order to maximize their …
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Creating Exhibits for Small History Museums on a Limited Budget
… process of developing an exhibition for small history museums. Working with the Treasure Island Museum, a small history museum in San Francisco, I explore the different options for developing exhibitions for small history museums, with small budgets, in contrast to the more well funded practice …
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Collections Management Systems at Natural History Museums: A Centralized Approach
<p>Natural history museum collections are an invaluable learning tool for audiences of many ages. However, learning experiences can be hampered if collections are poorly managed. Inconsistent object numbering systems, scant information associated with a specimen, and differences in records …
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Re-Presenting Taxidermy: Contemporary Art Interventions in Natural History Museums
Most natural history museums in Europe and North America were established during the late nineteenth century with the aim of preserving and developing a collection of botanical, geological and zoological specimens to facilitate research in the natural sciences and at the same time educate the …
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Managing Education Collections: The Care/Use Balance in Natural History Museums
Although many natural history museums across the country manage education collections, not much literature exists on the level of care these collections receive and how institutions make decisions regarding this care. The purpose of this research study was to examine the standards of care for …
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Assessment of management and collection of zoological specimens at natural history museums in Malaysia
… of understanding on the importance of natural history collections is one. Ineffective dissemination of biodiversity knowledge, poor maintenance of natural history collection and lack of understanding as perceived by Malaysian why the need for a natural history museum are problems answered by …
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Computer-Mediated Communication Of History Museums In The Midwestern United States: A Web Content Analysis
… is to investigate how small, medium, and large history museums in the midwestern United States communicate the value of digital experiences to adult museumgoers. This qualitative content analysis follows Pauwels’ (2012) Multimodal Framework for Analyzing Websites as Cultural Expressions. The …
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Strict Fidelity to Nature: Scientific Taxidermy, U.S. Natural History Museums, and Craft Consensus, 1880s to 1930s
… increased in prominence in American natural history museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of trying to replicate nature through mounts and displays became increasingly central. Crude practices of overstuffing skins gave way to a focus on the artistic modelling …
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Analysis of current practices in natural history museums' in the interpretation of mammoths with implications for the Mayborn Museum Complex.
… 14-question survey, distributed to U.S. natural history museums. My purpose for doing so was to inform my recommendations regarding future exhibit renovations at the Mayborn Museum Complex. I have recommended a three phase renovation plan for the museum, supported by the data collected. The first …
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A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum
… evolution of experiential education in American history museums from 1787 to 2007. Because of a decline in attendance, museum educators need to identify best practices to draw and retain audiences. I used 16 museology and history journals, books, and archives of museums prominent for using the …
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The Place of the Past: Images of an Outdoor History Museum
Hundreds of outdoor history museums dot the American landscape and annually draw millions of visitors through their gates. Their attributes as a unique place type, as well as the corresponding place images of them held by their visitors, are of particular importance in understanding their spatial, …
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Comparison of comprehension of historical information in first- and third-person museum interpretation.
Living history museums are realistic representations of the past where visitors encounter interpreters using artifacts and create a meaningful context for understanding history. However, little research has been done to determine how successful these museums are as a pedagogy for learning. This …
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Fiducial accountability for collections : a comparison of traditional and non-traditional museums.
… of traditional and non-traditional museums regarding non-living biological collections is clarified through a historical review of natural history museums, botanical gardens, and zoological gardens, and an examination of their mandating documents, such as articles of incorporation, …
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The visitor centre: artistic reconfigurations of multispecies relationships in an urban environment
… representations of nonhuman species in natural history museums, where the categorical separation of human and nonhuman species is maintained through a static, hierarchical taxonomic narrative. This is demonstrated in a case study of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Tshwane. …
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Everyday and unworn dress as museum pieces: a study of the Hodson Shop Collection, Walsall Museum, 1983-2016
… and presence of everyday and unworn dress in museums has been largely overlooked in museological and historical accounts of museums and collections. Instead, the focus has been upon the study of elite, spectacular and worn clothing. Similarly, little academic attention has been paid to …
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Physics, construction, experience : an architecture environment for informal science education
… facilities (to include science centers, natural history museums, aquariums and zoos) have dramatically evolved from the 17th century room of curiosity cabinets to the modern-day container of interactive exhibits, very little has been done to incorporate architectural experience into a pedagogical …
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
… for much of the twentieth century. While natural history museums are the most obvious spaces in which to encounter extinct animals, these scientific venues have never held exclusive rights to the charismatic mega fauna of the planet's past, nor have they controlled their cultural meanings …
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Retrospect and prospect : oral history in Texas museums.
The oral history movement flourished during the 1970s in Texas and is a wellestablished, legitimate research tool in the state today. During the same period, Texas museums experienced unprecedented growth and established themselves as viable public educational institutions. History museums in Texas …
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Queer Is Here, Hopefully to Stay: The Incorporation and Reception of LGBTQ+ History at the History Colorado Center
… argue that given the authoritative nature of museums and their influence on the public, exclusions of LGBTQ+ history can mount to institutional erasure of queer identities. However, in the past decade, there has been an increase in attempts to document and curate exhibitions highlighting and …
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