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Abigail Fisher I202 Final Assignment May 4, 2015 Research Question: How are museum curators incorporating new technology into exhibits to enhance participation from a younger generations of Americans? Background: According to an article written by the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory museums across the United States are feeling more and more inclined to move toward interactive exhibits. In order to do so, they are beginning to incorporate technologies into

Positioned alongside Central Park in the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museum, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a certain set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about

statement to your leadership style. Over all we do see men and woman in the field of museum work but the way they are treated is vastly different. Male curators will be involved in a more science and research field while women will usually fill the maintenance and care role. These two positions area not equally respected though they both use the title of curator. To maintain a collection is admirable but why collect if no information is obtained. So the woman in these positions are just a stepping stone

Cheyenne Dickenson AAD 410 Winter 2017 Lane County Historical Museum On February 7th we visited the Lane County Historical Museum. Faith Kreskey, the exhibits curator, facilitated the tour, and gave us an inside look at her job and the challenges of the museum. Topics included: staffing, collections care, facilities, budgeting, the museum’s recent history, community partnerships, and exhibits. One theme I kept coming up against was the idea of a history museum. In the context of a mid-size western

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory in Organizational Diversity Psychologist Abraham Maslow established a theory of motivation to justify how people in diverse organizations behave. His human requirements theory states that humans are never completely satisfied; that they crave satisfaction and those requirements can be classified into a hierarchy based upon importance. The lowest level of importance includes peoples’ desire to satisfy their physical needs, such as hunger and thirst. Following the

DOCUMENTATION The Indian Art Gallery recognized that documentation is important for the development, research and preservation. It is the crucial part of the collection management. Documentation is the responsibility of collection management that under the curator and other eligible staff. Documentation will provide the evidence of the museum’s legal ownership of the material and it provide a legal written document. Any changes in the condition will be documented. Any work in museum is done through the document

Beyond and Between – A Painter’s Journey, available to view for twenty weeks concluding on the 2nd of April. When facilitating an exhibition, the curator takes on the role of both a cultural producer and the custodian of artworks (Charlesworth 2008, 92), an approach to the coordination of artworks that blurs the fine line between curator and artist (O͛Neill 2012, 1). This can be seen in the exhibition Less Than: Art and Reductionism curated by Katherine Dionysius as she investigates the cultural

Question #4: When constructing an exhibit, the museum staff must ask themselves: What demographic are we designing this exhibit for. Correspondingly, the museum staff ponders what is the line of sight for the targeted demographic, so they know where to place the artifacts and how the exhibit should be structured. Similarly, the museum staff must predict how the public will respond to their exhibit and the necessary precautions to avoid negative reviews. Most importantly, the museum staff must question

audience enjoying the aesthetic of the pieces even as she understands that outside information is needed for visitors who do not have the same experience or knowledge as curators do on the objects. She is against them because it is through these labels or lack of labels, that are interpretations of the objects history and culture by the curator, that unintentional misrepresentations or possibly political statements could be made about the object . Taking an object and placing it on display in an art museum

‘Imagine you were in charge of a museum’s collecting policy. What would you chose to collect and how would you justify these decisions?’ Introduction Collections play a crucial role in fulfilling a museum’s mission and purpose. A museum’s collection is defined by its collection policy past and present which in turn helps to shape the museum’s goals and direction. As stewards of collections, museums are expected to maintain the highest professional standards legally and ethically. The development