3.3 Maintenance In children's museum, exhibits are activities based, often includes building blocks, puzzles, computer pieces and dress-up areas. Staff should keep these areas clean and neat. Items on the floor become stumbling hazards and impediments for wheelchair users and people with low vision. Messy areas also create a sense of disruption and lack of control. They do not feel safe and comfortable. If maintenance staffing is minimal, components need to be simple and built to last forever. As visitors flow through museums, they break and lose items. Designs need to be flexible, allowing substitute of components rather than entire exhibits to assist with the ongoing renovation.
Museums have long served a purpose as cultural staples. For every museum, big and small, careful consideration is used in selecting its contents. When securing new items for a museum, it is most important to consider public appeal, educational value, and cost-effectiveness.
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whether you are communicating with an adult, child or a young person it doesnâ€TMt differ much. Moreover, each group wants be treated with respect and a positive body language such as,
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I learned that museum trips for the purpose of learning or not just to take time away from the school or as a “reward” for students; rather, the teacher must make connections to the classroom learning and see the museum activity as another resource method to engage children. As Erdman suggests, “Collaboration with a museum takes planning to ensure the process is effective for everyone. As with any aspect of education, goal setting and reflection are key” (p. 18). Moreover, I recognize the value of Erdman’s article is its germane inclusion of technology. Erdman’s discusses how more museums “are embracing the potential of a digital museum” (p. 17) and with more schools looking to use 1-to-1 laptops, could provide teachers with another avenue for student learning. Again, I recognize the importance for an effective incorporation of museum education will need careful panning because “Collaboration with a museum takes planning to ensure the process is effective for everyone” (Erdman, 2016, p. 18). In short, I recognize three important ideas from the week’s readings—connecting museums to early childhood development, my own understanding of the purpose of museums, connecting museums to student learning—provided me with a foundation and motivation to incorporate museum education to my
Ideal for children between the age of one and ten, the interactive museum offers children a variety of hands-on and multisensory activities.
Museums are places of learning and it would be a matter of time that they would tackle exhibits that would make people unconformable. There are many topics that people find unconformable for example slavery or the horrifying event of the Holocaust. These types of topics have emotional ties to them that if they are done wrong could cause outrage with the public. They have to be handling with care so not offend people especially if they are live through the event like the holocaust or had family that were in slavery. There are strengths and limitation of these types of topics that make people unconformable in the exhibit type of educations which includes living history performance. In the paragraph below I will talk about the strength and weakness of the types of exhibition.
Furthermore, I hope to spark interaction and interest in artwork through interactive museum guides geared towards children. These museum guides encourage reading and writing in children of all ages through fun, interactive, and educational questions that spark thoughtful and insightful conversations. Through creating these interactive brochures, I hope to inspire interest and involvement in a museum setting.
The Guggenheim Museum and the Frick Collection are two of New York’s most famous museums. They have fundamentally different architectural designs, both inside and out, that reflect and enhance the different goals of the museums. And yet, they both interact with their environments in a similar manner. Neither building is a large
Throughout this course, I have reaffirmed my desire to engage others in the process of learning. I have always been fascinated by the potential museums possess to involve visitors in inquiry and even cultivate a love for learning. Accordingly, my goal has always been to bring my passion for learning to museum visitors. Due to my background in archaeology, I have always given the bulk of my attention to objects within museums, giving little thought to my own experience let alone the experiences of others. Museums Today: Missions and Function, however, has taught me to emphasize the museum audience and the experience of visiting rather than the collection itself. The concept of being audience focused rather than collections driven, is
The museum is a place where antique things and art are preserved for the public to be seen, a place where rare things of past and present are kept, a place where you can see a collection of rare things and things of historical interest. Those who want to have a look into the past visit the museum. I was planning to visit this museum long before this assignment but I never had the chance to fulfil it. Last Sunday I took my family and visited the American History Museum, and the Aerospace Museum in Washington D C. Each Museum is divided into various sections. Each section has different exhibits. I spent great time in the History Museum as it pertains to the course I’m taking, but my two kids loved the Aerospace Museum.
Museums are boring. Stuffy. Musty. Much too “cultured” and “bourgeois”. Who cares about those old paintings? Not us, we say, as we flit from review book to science lab to English essay. Our parents want to plan something fun for the family, and perhaps we could try that new Italian place? Oh wait, we have to finish those notes. Do we even have time for fun anymore? Our friends are constantly busy on the weekends. The few plans hastily created on the group chat inevitably fade away as we are buried under the gargantuan strains of everyday life. Our minds are drained, exhausted, and oh so very stressed. We could use a break. Maybe even take a trip somewhere. Well, what about that “boring” museum? Although museums strike us as vapid, time-consuming, distant, and just plain stuffy, we should increase museum attendance in order to destress our lives and increase our overall awareness.
Historically, museums have excluded too many people. I want to eradicate the pervasive mind-set that “certain people just don’t visit museums.” Today, in an era of public discourse characterized by instantaneous updating and dynamic participation, a savvy public shares knowledge and gains understanding about the experiences of others at the click of a mouse. The Internet, digital media, video games, content sharing, and social networking enhance and create new methods of learning. Regrettably, museums – the giants of knowledge – have fallen behind in regard to inclusiveness, technological innovation, and representation of diverse experiences. Museums hold great power in shaping educational curriculum and public dialogue nationwide.
Maintaining and increasing visitors to museums is essential to the existence of the institutions. Art Galleries, Children’s Museums, Anthropology Museums, Zoos, History Museums and other types of museums all depend on a steady stream of people coming to their institutions. Without a robust attendance, gallery halls are just empty, full of objects collecting dust. Objects and artifacts that the public and researchers are not viewing are wasted opportunities to be an inspiration or to help gain new knowledge. Empty exhibition halls would become no better than 15th century collections locked up in private homes of wealthy individuals promoting their affluence. These institutions keep important stories for posterity by collecting, preserving, researching, interpreting objects, living specimens, and historical records (Museum). Even beyond the cultural implications, museums need visitors to keep income flowing into the institutions. Donations are made to all museums in the form of objects and money. Nonetheless, larger donations are usually made to well-known institutions where the donor knows the object will be seen by a vast audience or that a monetary donation will be noticed by a larger number of people. The importance of a sizable, steady attendance rate to a museum is not a complex issue, and with 850 million people visiting a physical American museum, which is more than all major league sporting events and theme parks combined, it might not seem like an issue that the
Museum managers should carefully examine individually all aspects of a museum’s function in order to answer this dilemma. They must take into account the situation of each museum in terms of wealth and popularity, its target group (type of visitor it attracts), the collection as well as its location (Bailey, Falconer, Foley, McPherson, & Graham, 2007).