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Tivy, Mary. "THE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN ONTARIO 1851-1985: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2821.
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This thesis is a study of the changing model of the local history museum in Ontario, Canada and the consequential changing interpretations of the past in these institutions. Beginning in 1879, local history museums in Ontario developed largely from the energies of local historical societies bent on collecting the past. While science museums used taxonomy and classification to mirror the natural state of the world, history museums had no equivalent framework for organizing collections as real-world referents. Often organized without apparent design, by the early 20th century a deductive method was used to categorize and display history collections into functional groups based on manufacture and use.
By the mid-twentieth century an inductive approach for interpreting collections in exhibits was promoted to make these objects more meaningful and interesting to museum visitors, and to justify their collection. This approach relied on the recontextualization of the object through two methods: text-based, narrative exhibits; and verisimilitude, the recreation of the historical environment in which the artifact would have been originally used. These exhibit practices became part of the syllabus of history museum work as it professionalized during the mid-twentieth century, almost a full century after the science museum. In Ontario, recontextualizing artifacts eventually dominated the process of recreating the past at museums. Objects were consigned to placement within textual storylines in order to impart accurate meaning. At its most elaborate, artifacts were recontextualized into houses, and buildings into villages, wherein the public could fully immerse themselves in a tableau of the past. Throughout this process, the dynamic of recontextualization to enhance visitor experience subtlety shifted the historical artifact from its previous position in the museum as an autonomous relic of the past, to one subordinate to context.
Although presented as absolute, the narratives and reconstructions formed by these collecting and exhibiting practices were contingent on a multitude of shifting factors, such as accepted museum practice, physical, economic and human resources available to the museum operation, and prevailing beliefs about the past and community identity. This thesis exposes the wider field of museum practice in Ontario community history museums over a century while the case study of Doon Pioneer Village shows in detail the conditional qualities of historical reconstruction in museum exhibits and historical restoration.
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Settle, Lora Elizabeth. "Museums That "Matter": An Analysis of Four History Museums." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42715.
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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 effectiveness. Common museological theories and literature are shared by museum professionals across the globe, roughly forming an ideal standard for museums. This study argues, however, against an ideal standard in favor of museums being evaluated in their own right. Elements of Stephen E. Weil's system of evaluation described in Making Museums Matter (2002) â and specifically his four evaluative criteria of purposiveness, capability, effectiveness, and efficiency â are employed in this study in order to evaluate four history museums â the building for the protection of the royal tombs of Vergina, Greece, the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Greece, the Archaearium at Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, and the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. The use of these four criteria allows for a basic understanding of the ways in which the museums in this study have become successful despite their variance from an ideal standard.Master of Arts
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Hughes-Skallos, Jessica M. "Displaying Archaeology: A Look into the Representation of Archaeology in United States Natural History/History Museums." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384850209.
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Butler, Melissa. "A study of visitation at living history farms and agricultural museums." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 130 p, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1203585101&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Chan, Fat-tim. "Hong Kong natural history museum." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25948398.
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Choi, Kam-lung Franky. "Macau history museum complex." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25948684.
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Pollinger, Maegan. "PLANTING SEEDS OF CHANGE: GARDEN SPACES AND THE SURVIVAL OF HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUMS IN CRISIS." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/442350.
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This study explores the use of gardens and agricultural spaces at historic house museums, and the potential these spaces have for supporting positive change. At the turn of the twenty-first century, house museums grappled with a crisis of limited funding and ever shrinking visitor capacity, which continues to affect the success of these spaces today. I argue that garden spaces can provide interpretive revitalization, community relevancy, and increased income for historic house museums that can positively support a house museum. By surveying house museums throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania, I show that garden spaces provide a tool for house museums to gain stability amidst crisis.
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Könyves, Kasper, and Max Orrenius. "En intervjustudie om Örebro läns museums pedagogiska verksamhet." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-60975.
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Uppsatsen syftar till att söka förståelse kring hur Örebro läns museum kan vara en pedagogisk resurs för skolan, med fokus på historieundervisningen. Efter att ha läst in oss på forskningsfältet museologi fick vi reda på museers olika uppdrag. Utifrån uppdragen fann vi en intressant ingång till skola och utbildning kopplat till museers senaste tillskrivna uppdrag, som framförallt handlar om att museer ska komplettera skolornas pedagogiska verksamhet. I det här uppdraget blev museipedagogik, besöksstudier och lärandet inom museer viktiga områden att fördjupa sig i. Därmed började vi studera och fördjupa oss i flertalet avhandlingar och artiklar som uppmärksammade dessa teman. Utifrån den tidigare forskningen fick vi förståelse för hur och vad museer kan bidra med till skolor och undervisning. I forskningsavsnittet synliggjordes framförallt att det fanns historiska värden samtidigt som det poängterades att det behövs fler studier som behandlar hur museipedagogiken upplevs och uppfattas av utomstående. Därmed fann vi det intressant att vidare undersöka hur specifikt Örebro läns museum kan vara ett pedagogiskt hjälpmedel i relation till historieundervisningen. Valet av museet och inriktningen på historia grundar sig förutom på tidigare forskning också på att vi läser till historielärare på Örebros universitet och ansåg att det skulle vara intressant att studera nya undervisningsmiljöer. För att lyckas förstå hur Örebro länsmuseum kan vara ett verktyg för historieundervisningen valde vi att använda oss av kvalitativa intervjuer i form av expertintervju och semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Expertintervjun genomfördes med museipedagogen på Örebro läns museum för att förstå verksamhetens pedagogiska möjligheter i relation till historieundervisningen. De semi-strukturerade intervjuerna gjordes på två historielärare och tre elever från ett högstadium som nyligen besökt Örebro läns museum. Syftet med intervjuerna var att skapa förståelse kring hur dessa aktörer upplever och uppfattar verksamheten. Därefter har vi kunnat utläsa att det museipedagogen förespråkar stämmer förhållandevis väl överens med vad båda lärare och elever tycker och upplever, men det finns en del områden som kan utvecklas och förbättras. Förhållningssättet gentemot att använda museer i historieundervisningen framhävs som positivt av samtliga involverade i undersökningen. Vi har kunnat utläsa flertalet intressanta användningsområden utifrån historieundervisningen och den lärandepotential som finns med Örebro läns museum, trots det finns det fortfarande en del faktorer som gör museibesöken problematiska.
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Velazquez, Marroni Cintia. "Understanding the past in the history museum : visitor research in two Mexican museums." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37241.
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This research analyses peoples’ historical consciousness (how they make sense of the past) in relation to their visit to two history museums in Mexico City. Through the combined use of interpretative qualitative visitor studies and a historical perspective it was possible to identify five different approaches or ways in which people made sense of the past in the museum (remembering, imagining and empathising, explaining and interpreting, believing and belonging, and perceiving and experiencing the material). This finding will help broaden current debates about historical consciousness, which have tended to focus mostly on explanatory patterns developed through school history education. Furthermore, the research argues that although there is individual variability depending on how people use those five approaches, there is still an intimate connection with the historical culture (broader social patterns of history-making specific to the way people relate to the past). Through a holistic analysis that placed the museum within a social environment, coexisting with different agents of history-making (for example the State, school, family, the historical discipline and the media), the research shows how those connections impacted on peoples’ interpretation of the past in the museum. It also shows the pervasive influence of present conditions on peoples’ historical consciousness as they visited the museum. Thus, by bringing together theories and methodologies that had not been used together in this way, the research has contributed to the historical discipline, and to museum and visitor studies alike. The contribution is enhanced by addressing a particular context – Mexican museums – that is currently underdeveloped in both Spanish and English literature. Finally, the thesis allows further reflection on issues such as State intervention, family socialisation, nationhood, and knowledge and trust building.
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Din, Herminia Weihsin. "A history of children's museums in the United States, 1899-1997: implications for art education and museum education in art museums." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247850292.
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Din, Herminia. "A history of children's museums in the United States, 1899-1997 : implications for art education and museum education in art museums /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487953204279663.
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Cook, Bettye Alexander. "A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5190/.
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This study traced the 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 method. I also interviewed 15 museum educators who employ experiential learning, one master interpreter of the National Park Service, and an independent museum exhibit developer. Experiential education involves doing with hands touching physical materials. Four minor questions concerned antecedents of experiential learning, reasons to invest in the method, the influence of social context, and cultural pluralism. Next is a review of the theorists whose works support experiential learning: Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Lewin, Bruner, Eisner, Hein, and David Kolb plus master parks interpreter Freeman Tilden. The 8 characteristics they support include prior experiences, physical action, interaction with the environment, use of the senses, emotion, social relationships, and personal meaning. Other sections are manifestation of experiential learning, transformation of history museums, and cultural pluralism in history museums. The research design is descriptive, and the procedure, document analysis and structured interview. Findings are divided by decades after the first 120 years. Social context, examples of experiential learning, and multicultural activities are detailed. Then findings are discussed by patterns of delivery: sensory experiences, actions as diversion and performance, outreach of traveling trunks and of organized activity, crafts as handwork and as skills, role-playing, simulation, hands-on museum work, and minor patterns. The decline of involvement of citizens in the civic and cultural life of the community has adversely affected history museums. Experiential learning can stop this trend and transform museum work, as open-air museums and the National Park Service have demonstrated. In the future history museums may include technology, a more diverse audience, and adults in its experiential educational plans to thrive. Further research is needed on evaluation, finances, and small museums.
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Wonders, Karen. "Habitat dioramas : illusions of wilderness in museums of natural history /." Stockholm : Almqvist och Wiksell, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35614492v.
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Birdwhistell, Benjamin P. "Manipulated Museum History and Silenced Memories of Aggression: Historical Revisionism and Japanese Government Censorship of Peace Museums." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2312.
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The Japanese government has a vested interest in either avoiding discussion of its war-torn past or arguing for a revisionist take. The need to play up Japanese victimization over Japanese aggression during World War II has led to many museums having their exhibits censored or revised to fit this narrative goal. During the 1990’s, Japan’s national discourse was more open to discussions of war crimes and the damage caused by their aggression. This in turn led to the creation of many “peace museums” that are intended to discuss and confront this history as frankly as possible. At the beginning of the 21st century, public discourse turned against these museums and only private museums have avoided censorship. Some museums, like the Osaka International Peace Center, have been devastated by the censorship. This museum and other museums with similar narrative issues raise questions about appropriate narrative on display. What is appropriate to censor for the sake of respect for the dead? What must be included for the sake of historical accuracy and honesty about the past? These questions are investigated at four different peace museums throughout Japan.
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Cook, Bettye Alexander Contreras Gloria. "A chronological study of experiential education in the American history museum." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5190.
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Aronsson, Peter, Simon Knell, Arne Bugge Amundsen, Bodil Axelsson, Felicity Bodenstein, Alexandra Bounia, Jocelyn Dodd, et al. "National Museums Making History in A Diverse Europe." Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-24409.
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This is the summary policy report of the Eunamus project. Drawing together findings from all of the other project reports and conferences, it reflects upon the way histories are constructed and deployed in Europe’s national museums. It sets out to address two questions: In what ways do national museums, and the histories they display, contribute to social division and cohesion? How might national museums be a force for greater social cohesion in Europe in the future? The report discusses how national museums perform, interpret and narrate meaningful pasts and how these acts of communication are perceived by visitors and citizens. The report concludes with eight policy implications: National museums need to be autonomous creative institutions National museums need to understand and be open about their performances National museums need to overcome national constraints National museums need to develop and share tools for establishing bridge-building narratives National museums need to review their impact on perceptions of citizenship National museums need to reach new audiences Regional and local museums hold great potential for international bridge building National museums can act as forums for contested issues The three-year research programme, EuNaMus – European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, is coordinated at Tema Q at Linköping University (www.eunamus. eu). EuNaMus explores the creation and power of the heritage created and presented at European national museums to the world, Europe and its states, as an unsurpassable institution in contemporary society. National museums are defined and explored as processes of institutionalized negotiations where material collections and displays make claims and are recognized as articulating and representing national values and realities. Questions asked in the project are why, by whom, when, with what material, with what result and future possibilities are these museums shaped.
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Rocha, Cláudia Regina Alves da. "Da Pinacoteca ao Museu: historicizando processos museológicos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/103/103131/tde-13022015-104640/.
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O Museu Nacional de Belas Artes e sua documentação museológica constituem o principal objeto de estudo desta pesquisa, que procura investigar em suas origens, junto à Academia Imperial de Belas Artes/Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, as ações de tratamento documental que essas instituições utilizaram. Partindo da premissa de que a criação do Museu Nacional de Belas Artes deuse no século XIX, a pesquisa tem por objetivo mapear as proximidades e distanciamentos, sob o enfoque documental, entre tais instituições.The National Museum of Fine Arts and its museological documentation are the aim of this research, which investigates its originis by the identification of the documentation processes developped at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, renamed National School of Fine Arts. Considering that the creation of the National Museum of Fine Arts emerged from the debates on the foundation of an Art Gallery inside the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in the 19th century, this research explores the similarities and differences between these institutions from the point-of-view of the documentation of their collections.
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Tällgård, Nelly. "Museums användning av digitala verktyg : En komparativ undersökning av tre museum." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169425.
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Genom en deltagande observation undersöks hur tre museum använder digitala verktyg i sitt publika arbete i museet genom appar och på deras hemsida. En kombination av Duncan F. Camerons och Shannon och Weavers modeller för kommunikation används för att undersöka de olika stegen i processen. Kommunikationen undersöks med fokus på hur museet vill nå fram till besökaren.
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Gore, James Michael. "Representations of history and nation in museums in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand : the National Museum of Australia and the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa /." [Australia] : J. Gore, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000320.
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Chan, Fat-tim, and 陳發添. "Hong Kong natural history museum." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982761.
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Rheeder, Willem Lodewikus. "History outside the classroom : the use of museums in the teaching of history." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6584.
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In the modern technical age in which we live , knowledge of the past is often pushed into the background As a result of this history teaching often becomes an attempt to pump an assortment of arbitrary facts into the minds of scholars by means of 'chalk and talk' methods. Educationists all over the world see this tendency as the major reason for the declining popularity of history as a school subject . In other parts of the world, such as the United States of America and Britain, education departments and teachers have faced this challenge and it seems as if the status of history as a school subject has been retrieved . In the Republic of South Africa the new core syllabuses are geared towards moving away from the earlier restricted emphasis of facts, but there is very little guidance on how teachers are to implement this 'new' approach, which focus more on the "how" of history and on the teaching of historical skills In this thesis museum visits as one of the modes of outdoor education, is studied as a possible additional alternative method of teaching history in South African schools . A study is made of what museums are and of the possible educational values of museum visits. It soon becomes clear that the major beneficial aspect of museum visits could be the acquisition of historical skills such as comprehension, application , analysis , synthesis and evaluation In order to gain insight into the practical implementation of museum visits several groups were observed while visiting the museum, after which two pilot studies were undertaken in the Kaffrarian and South African Missionary Museums with Black standard ten pupils and senior student teachers . Attention is given to aspects of administrative , teacher and pupil preparation the implementation of the visit and the types of follow-up work which could be used. During and after the implementation of the two pilot studies certain characteristic problems were experienced these are : the compilation of worksheets and cultural differences . The most important of language difficulties : It also became clear that education officers at museums find it difficult to cope with the special educational needs of the different visiting groups . For this reason an approach is advocated where the teacher compiles his own worksheet suited to the needs of his specific pupils Guidelines are given as to how pre-planned worksheets could be adapted : how different question-types could be used to compile a worksheet in which skills ascend from the simple to the complex: and how worksheets could be compiled for mixed ability groups. It is hoped that this thesis will lead to renewed interest in the use of the museum in the teaching of history and will serve as guideline for teachers planning to take history "out of its coffin".
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Smeznik, Megan. ""Whose Digital History:" Closing the Gaps Between Academic Historians, Public Historians, and the Public." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent14923519523071.
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Porter, Gabriel Caroline. "Studies in gender and representation in British history museums." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8496.
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In this study, I develop a critical practice relevant to museums, drawing from feminist practice and poststructuralist theory. I examine the process through which museums construct, order, represent and interpret history to make meaning: how history comes to be true in the museum text. My focus is this process of production, not history itself. If the text is recognised as a construction, then it is available for deconstruction, to reveal the process of production of the text, the relations of production, the materials used, and their arrangement. In the activity of deconstructing the museum text, I take a feminist perspective. From this perspective, I argue that the process and relations of production are themselves gendered: the identities 'man' and 'woman' are formed and articulated through a range of relationships. The categories of 'man' and 'woman' are set against each other but, at the same time, are bound together and interdependent. 'Woman' becomes the background against which 'man' acts: 'his' existence and ascendance depend on 'her' presence and subordination. Together, they provide a thread for museums in the histories and narratives which they make. I examine the development of museums in England, and especially the development of history collections and museums in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here, I draw attention to those elements which have contributed most strongly to the articulation of a gendered history in museums. Moving from a general overview to specific case studies, I examine the articulation of history in three museums, whose identities and themes are related to production and consumption, work and leisure. These are chosen to represent the dominant forms through which museums articulate history, and at the same time as important sites for the construction and articulation of gendered narratives and histories. Finally, I look beyond the materials gathered in the case studies, and the conclusions drawn from them, focus on practices and projects which are broadly relevant to the thesis and which, implicitly or explicitly, challenge the conventions of museum work. In these examples, I have looked beyond Britain and beyond history museums, to open up wider possibilities for change.
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Choi, Kam-lung Franky, and 蔡錦龍. "Macau history museum complex." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982670.
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Makriyianni, Chara. "History, museums and national identity in a divided country : children's experience of museum education in Cyprus." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612726.
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Maust, Theodore. ""Most Historic Houses Just Sit There"| Activating the Present at Historic House Museums." Thesis, Temple University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10793092.
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Historic house museums (HHMs) are contradictory spaces, private places made public. They (often) combine the real with the reproduction. Drawing from object reverence, taxonomy, and tableaux over a century and a half of practice, the American HHM arrives in the present as a Frankenstein's monster of nostalgia.
Chamounix Mansion has been a youth hostel since 1964. It has also been a historic house museum, though when it became one and when—if—it ever stopped being one is an open question. Chamounix is a space where the past, present, and future all share space, as guests move through historic spaces, have conversations about anything or nothing at all, and plan their next day, their next destination, their next major life move. It is a place that seems fertile for meaning-making. It also provides a fascinating case study of what HHMs have been and what they might become.
The Friends of Chamounix Mansion employed the methods of other HHMs as it tried to achieve recognition as an HHM in the 1960s, but by the 1980s, they began claiming the hostel’s usage as another form of authenticity.
As HHMs face a variety of challenges today, and seek to make meaning with visitors and neighbors alike, the example of Chamounix Mansion offers a case study of how embracing usage might offer new directions for meaning-making.
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Carter, Thomas. "Museums and Englishness : the failure to establish a national museum in twentieth century England." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2016. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/4602/.
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This thesis takes as its starting in point an examination of the complex and contested construction of English national identity and its deeply problematized intertwining with ideas of Britishness. By examining three case studies of failed English national museum projects, this dissertation has demonstrated that these proposals have not coalesced around a consistent interpretation of Englishness, but upon specific, threatened forms of culture such as the preservation of rural, agricultural and folk heritage; or have been motivated by a particular desire to inculcate a sense of citizenship through the improvement of history education. Each of these projects failed because of practical and financial shortcomings, but their failure also reveals much about contemporary debates upon the nature of English national culture, as well as several consistent issues which have impeded the creation of an English national museum. Firstly, that the absence of cohesive definitions of Englishness and Britishness means that the notion of a national museum has become intensely politicised, and therefore, public funding has not been forthcoming. Secondly, those definitions of Englishness that have arisen have formed around localised, often rural cultures, and thusly the idea of a single, London based national institution has met resistance from regional museums. Finally, the thesis demonstrates that museological paradigms have shifted significantly over the course of the twentieth century. Changing attitudes to interpretive practices, the role of curatorial authority, proscriptive ideas of culture, and museum-visitor relationships, have effectively made the very concept of a centralised national museum antithetical to the museum community. The original contribution of this thesis then, is in demonstrating how the inability and reticence to define a homogenous English national identity has impacted upon the creation of an English national museum.
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Costa, Carina Martins. "Uma arca das tradições: educar e comemorar no Museu Mariano Procópio." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/8991.
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This thesis is a reflection on the making o Brazilian History writings in museums since the 1920s, a central moment for the establishment of a republican 'pedagogy of nationality' based on museal support. Some of the political-pedagogic efforts of those institutions were observed in order to understand the chief characteristics of an educational paradigm for historical knowledge in museums. Thus, the analysis of civic celebrations, guides and expositions allowed an approximation of the memorial activations of museum actors, with special attention to the continuities, negotiations and transformations o the projects, particularly in their pedagogic dimension. Mariano Procópio Museum was chosen as a case study both due to its specificities, which leads us to understand the 'concert' of national museums from the countryside, and to the relevance of its collection and the intensity of educational actions developed under the Geralda Armond management (1944-1980). The Armond management in the center of this thesis, marked by the defense of institutional continuity and of the framing of the Lage family memory; by the struggle of the material maintenance of the museum, with a close approximation to the civilian and military regime; and by the search for the professionalization of personnel and for dynamism in actions. The results highlight the multiplicity and fragility of the museum’s identity formation, associated to the fact that it is a 'municipal' museum. A situation which explains, at least in part, its oblivion in the national scene, despite its expressive collection and its articulation with the school system, through the strengthening of the civic sense of its pedagogic actions.
Esta tese é uma reflexão sobre a construção de escritas da História do Brasil em museus, a partir da década de 1920, momento fulcral para o estabelecimento de uma 'pedagogia da nacionalidade' republicana, que tem por suporte o discurso museal. Alguns dos esforços político-pedagógicos dessas instituições foram observados, com o objetivo de compreender as principais características de um paradigma educativo para o saber histórico nos museus. Assim, a análise das comemorações cívicas, dos guias de divulgação e das exposições permitiu uma aproximação das ativações memoriais ensejadas pelos atores dos museus, com atenção para as continuidades, as negociações e as transformações dos projetos, especialmente em sua dimensão pedagógica. O Museu Mariano Procópio foi selecionado para a realização de um estudo de caso, tanto por suas especificidades, que nos induzem a pensar o 'concerto' dos museus nacionais a partir do interior do país como pela relevância de seu acervo e pela intensidade de ações educativas desenvolvidas na gestão de Geralda Armond (1944-1980). A gestão Armond é o foco da tese, sendo marcada pela defesa da continuidade institucional e do enquadramento da memória da família Lage; pela luta pela sustentação material do Museu, inclusive com uma forte aproximação com o regime civil e militar; e pela busca da profissionalização de quadros e do dinamismo das ações. Os resultados atentam para a multiplicidade e fragilidade na construção identitária do Museu, associada ao fato de ser um museu 'municipal'. Uma situação que explica, ao menos em parte, seu esquecimento no cenário nacional a despeito de seu acervo expressivo e das articulações encetadas com o sistema escolar, por meio do fortalecimento do sentido cívico de suas ações pedagógicas.
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Brown, Lyndsey S. "Founding Force, Forgotten Focus: A Case Study of Gender Influence Within the Preservation of Historic House Museums, with Emphasis on the Jacobsburg Historical Society's Boulton Historic Site in Pennsylvania." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/162987.
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Historic house museums are the focus of an ideological tension between preservation and interpretation within the public history community. At a time where many house museums are failing, preservationists advocate for solutions to the house museum dilemma focused on saving the building. Historians and other museum professionals point to the importance of the value of the collections, memories, and documents preserved within the house as critical tools for understanding and teaching American history. Of specific focus in this thesis is the role gender influence played in the formation of historic house museums and how an examination of its continuing effect on agency within heritage sites creates access points for cutting-edge public history and interpretation. This is done through a case study of the history of the Jacobsburg Historical Society's Boulton Historic Site in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The site was the location of the Boulton Gun Works, built in 1812 by the Henry family, manufacturers of the Pennsylvania Longrifle and key members of the early industrial community of Jacobsburg, located just north of the Moravian community of Nazareth.
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Engle, Derek. "Present Arms: Displaying Weapons in Museums." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/492682.
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Museums have always had and displayed weapons, including firearms. As museums have evolved, so too has exhibit design and practice. However, many weapons displays have not kept up with changing practices, and many of them are now irrelevant, have limited audiences, or are unhelpful to the broader public. Simply displaying weapons by type or as art is not enough anymore, and keeping them in storage does not take advantage of their potential. Also, many museums are increasingly trying to become places for public discourse about current issues. They often create exhibits meant to be relevant to today and promote discussions about controversial topics. Many museums are also trying to make their collections and objects more accessible to the public. Innovative displays of firearms could help them accomplish both these tasks. The battle over gun control and gun rights is often more of a shouting match than reasoned discourse. Museums could use historic firearms as an opportunity to help facilitate a more responsible conversation about the issue. These firearms are typically not as emotionally charged as modern guns, and could be used as a pathway into the gun debate if displayed creatively. Guns, historic or not, are often not very approachable objects for many people. This can be for a variety of reasons, including their associations with masculinity, power, and nationality. Museums should experiment with new ways to display firearms that can make them more approachable and accessible to broader audiences, and ideally to the entire public.
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Speakman, Lydia M. "The cultural construction of history in museums and heritage attractions." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1992. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20390/.
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This study examines the role of the curator in the interpretation of history in museums and heritage attractions. The research uses data from twelve case studies collected from observation and interviews to examine the decision-making processes undertaken by curators in devising exhibitions and displays. The study examines the different interpretative opportunities available to the curator in determining their construction of history, in the selection of artefacts and the choice of historical interpretative approaches and interpretative techniques. The study demonstrates that the curator has to mediate his or her interpretative choices with a number of constraints. These constraints include the availability of artefacts, finance, the market, institutional structure and the ethics of the museum profession. In examining this decision-making process, the study argues that the construction of history in museums and heritage attractions represents a microcosm of the wider processes involved in the cultural construction of history. The study examines the role of history in society in upholding current beliefs and practices. Museums, as cultural institutions concerned with the past, are on the forefront of presenting society with its selective tradition, and as such are symbols of present values and attitudes. Curators, by virtue of their institutional role, are part of this wider cultural dynamic. Therefore their constructions of history in exhibitions, remain firmly within the current sociopolitical boundary, even though those constructions may also act to test and extend that same boundary.
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Jarvis, Amelia. "Representations of Solitary Confinement in Four Ontario Penal History Museums." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38682.
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This thesis examines representations of solitary confinement at four penal history museums in the province of Ontario, Canada: the Olde Gaol Museum in Lindsay, the L’Orignal Old Jail in L’Orignal, the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives in Brampton, and Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston. Engaging with Brown’s (2009) theory of “penal spectatorship” and Cohen’s (2001) work on states of denial, I investigate how these representations of solitary confinement challenge and/or reinforce the idea that segregation is a necessary practice in operational carceral institutions. I identify three dominant themes. The first theme is who ends up in solitary confinement and why. The museums justify the necessity of solitary confinement by emphasizing its usefulness in neutralizing dangerous and unpredictable prisoners, along with its supposed ability to promote prisoner protection and the management of mental health needs. The second theme pertains to the duration prisoners spend in solitary confinement and the conditions they experience. The museums do not problematize prisoners’ length of stay in solitary confinement, nor the conditions of the cells in which they are held, rather historical penal discourses are used to demonstrate improvements over time, without problematizing its present uses. The third theme arising from my analysis concerns the impacts of solitary confinement on prisoners. The museums emphasize the positive effects that solitary confinement can have on prisoners such as providing the opportunity for contemplation, while information on the negative effects of isolation including exacerbating or triggering mental health issues are largely absent. Taking these findings into consideration, I argue that the penal history museums I examined foster social distance between visitors and those in conflict with the law by legitimating the exclusion of the latter, while reinforcing the idea that solitary confinement is a necessary practice in carceral institutions today.
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Iguchi, Hisao. "Environmental education through museums : a case study of the ecology exhibition in the Natural History Museum, London." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020238/.
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Mairesse, François. "Le vouloir et le valoir: pour une réflexion globale sur le projet muséal." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212114.
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Clausen, Amy. "Playing with history : settlement narratives in performance at three history museums of the Lower Mainland." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/48626.
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This is a qualitative study of the settlement narratives that are performed at three Lower Mainland historic sites and museums. Employing costumed interpreters to animate and interpret staged historic environments and texts, museum sites are understood as performance spaces. Using this lens, combined with postmodern sensibilities of narrative and ethics, and a critical eye toward racist and colonial worldviews, I observe and analyze narratives of settlement at Fort Langley National Historic Site, Irving House Museum, and Burnaby Village Museum. With careful attention to the material signifiers of theatre, and the uses of staging environments, I also analyze how narratives at each site open or close themselves to contestation. I advance an argument that certain theatrical devices may hold narratives temporally, spatially, aesthetically captive in performative museum spaces. In resisting these captivating devices, performers and audiences alike can confront and contemplate narratives that complicate the status quo, and ultimately come closer to the expression of radical intellectual equality.Education, Faculty of
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Kasibe, Wandile Goozen. "Museums and the construction of race ideologies: the case of natural history and ethnographic museums in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32501.
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This enquiry investigates the entanglement of the Natural History and Ethnographic museums in the construction of racist ideologies, the perpetuation of colonial reasoning and its continuities in South Africa today. It draws our attention to the fact that the museological institution was complicit and colluded in the perpetuation of colonial "crimes against humanity", thereby rendering its own institutionality a colonial "crime scene" that requires rigorous "de-colonial" investigation in the "post-colonial" era. In the attempt to shed more light into the miasma caused by colonial and apartheid rule, I turn to the practices of 'scientific enquiry' and public exhibitions to advance an argument that these museum exhibits were a precursor to genocide. The study further argues that, these public exhibits of Africans were instrumental in popularizing theories of racial ideology and white 'supremacy', dehumanizing Africans and thereby creating public justification for colonial dispossession of Africans. To support my argument I discuss the underpining politics that informed the making and dismantling of the South African Museum's "Bushman" diorama. Further to the discussion about dioramas, human zoos and other forms of racializing spectacles, I make reference to the haunting narratives of the African Diasporas to provide context and perspective. These African individuals are: Sarah Baartman ('The Hottentot Venus') and El Negro 'object 1004' and then Ota Benga, the "Congolese Pygmy", who was displayed with an orangutan at the Bronx Zoo in America in 1906, and labelled "the Missing Link". Part of my attempt to understand the story of Benga, I set on a journey to track him to the United States (US). To point out and expose these human wrongs I incorporate and discuss images of decapitated heads, prepared skulls and images of emaciated Africans, not to reproduce colonial traumas, but to unveil the gravity of the violence that was emitted against those who were deemed 'lesser' beings, namely the black Africans and KhoiSan in particular. The colonial museum collected these human remains for race 'science' under politically motivated circumstances to feed to the idea that black 'inferiority' and white 'superiority' as a new global socio-political order. The evidence of diverse materials (photographs, manuscript letters etc) that I have used here point to the toxic collusion between the colonial administration and the museological institution in the perpetuation of racial violence in South Africa. The contribution among many other contributions of this study is the interrogation of these colonial traces in the museological institution and the proposal of a decolonial project framed in the form of a Museum Truth, Repatriation and Restitution Commission (#MuseumTRRC). The MuseumTRRC as both a socio-political and museological tool sharply invokes the interplay between the construction of race and the establishment of the colonial museum in a way that helps us understand how the museological institution influenced laws of racial separation that South Africa's apartheid past was built on. The MuseumTRRC is presented as the sine qua non in the framing of the 'new museum' of the future. In a nutshell, the study presents to us new ways of seeing museums and their sociological impact of their collections on people's lives today. It presents what I term in this thesis as 'museumorphosis', a process of radical epistemological shift that should take place in the museum in order for the museological institution to effectively respond to the sensibilities of the 21st Century and beyond.
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Smith, Charlotte H. F. "The house enshrined : great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia /." Online version, 2002. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/24545.
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Howe, Laura Paulsen. "Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2015.pdf.
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Beaton, Angela Ann. "Publishing Public History: Publishing Options for Small Organizations." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31545.
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Publishing books and catalogs has long been the domain of large museums and historical societies that have an equally large budget. While large organizations can commit vast amounts of time and resources to publishing, many small organizations cannot. Before recent technological advances, small museums and local history organizations were unable to participate in the publishing of books and catalogs easily. However, today, there are several viable options for these organizations to begin publishing. This research aims to highlight the ways that small organizations in the Upper Midwest have been utilizing technological advances and strategic partnerships to publish. Using these tools and partnerships, independently published books, catalogs, and other publications can be academically sound, including peer review, while also being affordable and easily created.
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Cid, Maria Rosa Lopez. "Miranda Ribeiro: um zoólogo evolucionista nos primeiros anos da República (1894-1938)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ, 2009. http://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/15963.
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Miranda Ribeiro construiu, a partir de seu trabalho, a reputação de grande zoólogo e especialista em peixes. Aprendeu a fazer ciência na prática com aqueles pesquisadores que foi conhecendo desde o momento em que iniciou suas atividades no Museu. Alguns desses pesquisadores foram, muito provavelmente, responsáveis pela orientação metodológica que deu aos seus trabalhos. E, além de sua grande capacidade de aprendizado, de sua organização e capacidade de trabalho, e, também como conseqüência dessas qualidades, Miranda Ribeiro estabeleceu relações com os cientistas mais importantes que trabalhavam no Brasil e muitos cientistas estrangeiros, renomados em suas áreas de pesquisa. O zoólogo do Museu Nacional tinha grande interesse em conhecer a fauna (principalmente a vertebrada) brasileira e se destacou no campo da taxionomia identificando e classificando muitos animais brasileiros. Seu método para classificá-los tinha como referência a origem comum dos seres vivos, que era uma das teorias que integrava o darwinismo. Embora, em seus trabalhos, abuse das descrições morfológicas e anatômicas, partindo do princípio de que os grupos de organismos tiveram uma origem comum, a morfologia, a anatomia, a fisiologia, a embriologia semelhantes entre certos 12 grupos podem ser explicadas a partir de ancestrais comuns que sofreram processos de especiação. É isso que Miranda Ribeiro tenta mostrar em seus trabalhos, mesmo durante um período em que o darwinismo já não era tão popular. Assumindo a opinião, comum a muitos de seus contemporâneos, de que produzir ciência de qualidade em instituições bem organizadas era a única maneira de contribuir para o progresso econômico e social do país, que se achava em dificuldades pela mudança de regime político, pelos problemas com a população miscigenada, que era considerada incapaz, com as epidemias que assolavam o país, com as pragas que atacavam a agricultura, principal fonte econômica na época, Miranda Ribeiro, sempre que tinha oportunidade, discursava a favor da ciência, dos cientistas e das instituições científicas. Realizou, através de seus trabalhos, tudo o que lhe foi possível para valorizar e especializar as ciências biológicas, defendendo referenciais teóricos que estavam ligados ao evolucionismo, tomando como modelos de cientistas, Darwin e Müller, principalmente.
Because of his work, Miranda Ribeiro has built the reputation of being a great zoologist and fish specialist. He learned science by practicing it with those researchers who he met while developing his activities in the Museum. It is highly likely that some of these researchers were responsible for the methodological orientation with which Miranda Ribeiro developed his works. Besides his great learning and working ability as well as his organization, and also as a consequence of these skills, Miranda Ribeiro established contact with the most important scientists in Brazil at the time and many foreign scientists who were all renowned in their fields of expertise. The zoologist of the National Museum had great interest in knowing the Brazilian fauna (specially the vertebrate ones) and had distinguished himself in the field of taxonomy by identifying and classifying many Brazilian animals. His method to classify these animals had, as a reference, the common origin of living beings, which was one of the theories that integrated Darwinism. Miranda Ribeiro tends to be very descriptive concerning morphological and anatomical aspects. Even though, if we consider that groups of organisms had a common origin, morphology, anatomy, physiology and embryology that are similar among certain groups can be explained by their common ancestors that suffered 12 processes of speciation. That is exactly what Miranda Ribeiro tries to demonstrate through his works, although it was a period of time when Darwinism was not so popular. Holding the opinion, common to many of his contemporaries, that producing quality science in well organized institutions was the only way to contribute to the economical and social development of the country (which had difficulties due to the change of the political regime, the problems concerning multiethnic population who was considered incapable, the different kinds of epidemy that afflicted the country and the plagues that attacked agriculture, which was the main economical source at the time) – Miranda Ribeiro, whenever he had the opportunity, provided speeches defending science, scientists and scientific institutions. He realized, throughout his works, everything that was possible to attribute value and specialize biological sciences, defending theoretical references that were linked to volutionism, using mainly Darwin and Muller as role models.
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Clark, Jessica C. "Women's History in House Museums: How Using Local Archives Can Improve Their Histories." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/143944.
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While scholarship in recent decades has begun investigating women's history, museums and historical sites have been slower to do so. Although house museums are more open to interpreting women's history, the histories present often remain limited to the family and the house. In this thesis, I argue that by exploring local archival collections for women's voices, house museums can improve their presentation of women's history. Specifically, I investigate connecting nursing history to upper middle class lifestyles through the Chew family at Cliveden, historical house museum. This paper begins by exploring three local Germantown sites to analyze how women are currently presented on the house tour. Next, I investigate the letters and records of two Chew women, Anne Sophia Penn Chew and Mary Johnson Brown Chew for health concerns, care giving, and the presence of hired nurses. I then explore early nursing training programs at collections housed at the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. Using the records of nursing training programs, including the Woman's Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, and the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia, connections are made between the new trend for educated nurses and upper middle class women and lifestyle, specifically the Chews. Based on my findings, I then propose a method to interpret nursing history on the current house tour at Cliveden. For sources, I especially rely on the documents of the Chew family housed the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I also draw heavily on the various nursing program records at the Bates Center.
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Schunk, Kaylie E. "What Does It Mean to Be a Child?: The McGuffey Readers." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1560091567565664.
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Bailey, Catherine Widin. "Making History Stick: Representations of Naval Stores in North Carolina Museums." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1499450051.
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This thesis explores the extent to which three North Carolina museums, the North Carolina Museum of History, the Cape Fear Museum, and the Maritime Museum at Southport, represent the state’s history of naval stores. Being a crucial part of North Carolina’s past that is frequently ignored in the formal education system, naval stores should be highlighted in museum exhibits about the state’s history and heritage. A critical analysis of these exhibits shows how these representations form a significant part of civic engagement and suggests improvements that would enhance the education of audiences about the importance of naval stores to the historical development of the state.
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Marquez, Jessica. "A natural history /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6249.
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Gilbert, Gladitz Georgia. "Let Our Voices Also Be Heard : Memory Pluralism in Latvian Museums About World War II and the Post-War Period." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Hugo Valentin-centrum, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-384426.
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The decades following the fall of the Soviet Union have seen drastic changes in society and culture within Europe. The desire to create a unified, pan-European historical narrative has been challenged by the expansion of the European Union. Previous Western European discourse of history has been confronted by the alternative perspectives of many former Soviet countries, such as Poland, Hungary, and the Baltic states. One of the greatest challenges to a new, inclusive pan-European narrative has been the perceived exclusion of Holocaust recognition in these former Soviet-bloc countries – a topic made more volatile considering the vast majority of the violence of the Holocaust took place in Central and Eastern Europe. Recent governmental decisions regarding the recognition of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe have been extremely disconcerting to Holocaust scholars and survivors, as well as the broad Western European community. But Eastern Europe insists that they are not neglecting Holocaust narratives in their respective countries; instead, they claim the lack of Western recognition of their suffering under Soviet rule has forced them to compensate by focusing their attention on an exploration of Soviet oppression. Eastern European scholars maintain that the best way forward is to embrace a pluralist narrative that recognizes both the victims of the Holocaust and the Soviet project. This thesis analyses the adoption of memory pluralism in two places of cultural memory of one Eastern European city – Riga, Latvia.
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Al-Mulla, Mariam Ibrahim. "Museums in Qatar : creating narratives of history, economics and cultural co-operation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11328/.
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This thesis traces the history of museums in Qatar to investigate a significant period of transformation - politically, economically and socially - and their role in the reordering of ' things'. I compare the way in which Qatari museums have been used during two different eras, from the 19705 to 1995 and from 1995 to the current day, to demonstrate how museums in Qatar have been politically driven and where they have been used to strengthen a national profile, locally. region ally and globally. A specific study of Qatar National Museum allows for an exploration of how Sheikh Khalifa's aims for the museums in the country changed the community's understanding of their everyday objects, when they were shown in a museum context as a part of a specific narrative of history and change. The economic, social and political paradigm shifts that Qatar is witnessing currently have brought about recognition of the need for a wider and more important role for museums and their acquisitions. Alongside moves to modernise the country, there has begun to be an emphasis on the need to preserve Qatar's traditions and heritage and the desire to rebuild some sites and cities from Qatar's hi story. Throughout these projects, Qatari and Islamic heritage have been utilised in the politicians' vision and plans for globalisation and modernisation. The new museum culture in Qatar acts as a very powerful tool to generate narratives about the country as a nation; however, the opening of these new museums invites debate about why certain objects have been brought together and why specific narratives have been constructed around them. I have completed this research as both a curator employed by the Museums Authority in Qatar since 1998, and as a doctoral student at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. This has created an interesting tension in my work. As an insider, I have had to engage with the cultural basis of understanding demanded of a curator working in Qatar. However, as a research student, I have been required to question, analyse and critique Qatari museum practice. This is the first thesis to explore the history of museums in Qatar conducted by a Qatari employed by the Museums Authority and I have addressed the challenges of this position in my research.
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Ballard, Susan Elaine. "Perceiving images : constituting British identities in museums." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/362440/.
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Sippel, Elizabeth. "The role of memory, museums and memorials in reconciling the past : the Apartheid Museum and Red Location Museum as case studies." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005773.
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When South Africa became a democracy, many of its cultural institutions were tainted by the stigma of having been tools for the production and propagation of apartheid ideology. This thesis examines two key facets of post-apartheid museums and memorials. Firstly, how they have repositioned themselves as institutions of cultural and social standing. Secondly, their role as tools of nation building, social change, and creators of national collective memory within the new democratic South Africa. Through an analysis of cultural memory theory pertaining to museology, this study elaborates on the methods employed by museums to incorporate memory into their narratives and in turn, transfer collective memory to their viewers. This thesis provides a comparative study of the architectural, memorial and museological strategies of two post-apartheid museums; the Red Location Museum and the Apartbeid Museum. It examines the contributions of both museums to the introduction of new museological strategies for the successful creation and transmission of South African collective memory. Through this analysis, both the invaluable contributions and the drawbacks of post-apartheid museums as tools for the promotion of new democratic ideologies and philosophies are considered. This thesis does not resolve the arguments and questions which have surfaced regarding cultural institutions as tools for the promotion of reconciliation and the construction of national collective memory within South Africa. As the current climate of memorialisation is one of change and paradox, it is presently impossible to fully quantify post-apartheid museums' roles within South Africa's move toward reconciliation and social change. However, the examination of both the Red Location Museum and the Apartheid Museum reveals the extraordinary change that South African cultural institutions have undergone in addition to their potential to become institutions which facilitate active reconciliation as well as social and cultural growth.
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Feagan, Joy. "REMEMBERING THE NATION’S PASTIME: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND PUBLIC HISTORY." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/562536.
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This study explores what happens when baseball and public history collide at physical sites. It specifically examines corporate and vernacular exhibits and tours at six Major League ballparks and exhibits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. I study these primary sources within the broader context of baseball history, nostalgia marketing, heritage tourism, and the relationship between public historians and corporations. My analysis adds to the sparse critical literature on sports public history.
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Silva, Regina ClÃudia Oliveira da. "THE EDUCATIONAL ACTION AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF GUSTAVO BARROSO FOR MODERN BRAZILIAN MUSEOLOGY." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=12703.
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nÃo hÃAs discussÃes nessa narrativa tratam-se da aÃÃo educacional e do legado cultural de Gustavo Barroso para a Moderna Museologia Brasileira. Vincula-se ao grande tema da histÃria e memÃria da educaÃÃo brasileira, especialmente à histÃria e memÃria das instituiÃÃes escolares e culturais. A pesquisa busca a compreensÃo e interpretaÃÃo da aÃÃo social do sujeito Gustavo Barroso, nas distintas matÃrias da Museologia no Brasil, por meio de sua aÃÃo educacional, a partir, nomeadamente, da trÃade Museu HistÃrico Nacional (1922), Curso de Museus (1932) e Inspetoria de Monumentos Nacionais (1934), bem como de seu debate sobre folclore sertanejo, principalmente cearense, vinculado à sua proposta de museu ergolÃgico (1944). Utilizamos o conceito de modernidade sustentado nas apreciaÃÃes de Max Weber a respeito do tema. Na pesquisa recorreram-se a documentos institucionais, à revisÃo bibliogrÃfica de outros trabalhos sobre o assunto e à entrevista de ex-alunos do Curso de Museus, em que se buscava saber sobre suas memÃrias (Ricoeur) no tocante ao Curso de Museus e à sua experiÃncia de convivÃncia e/ou trabalho no MHN. O objetivo fundamental à apresentar uma interpretaÃÃo falseÃvel (Popper) de que Gustavo Barroso, a partir da trÃade retrocitada, contribuiu para a preservaÃÃo da memÃria nacional, na medida em que iniciou uma cultura de preocupaÃÃo do poder pÃblico com nossa histÃria educacional e nosso patrimÃnio cultural, ou seja, instalou-se uma nova concepÃÃo de Museologia no Brasil, justificadora de sua prÃpria visÃo de histÃria e conservadorismo. A fundaÃÃo do MHN foi em 1922, ano emblemÃtico para a HistÃria do Brasil, marcado por diversos acontecimentos polÃticos e culturais, ano que tambÃm correspondia ao centenÃrio da IndependÃncia do Brasil, em que se vivia grande crise de popularidade e aceitaÃÃo do governo de EpitÃcio Pessoa. O MHN resultou em um libelo nacionalista e ufanista, necessÃrio para clamar ao povo o amor pela naÃÃo e a salvaguarda das relÃquias das elites imperiais na jovem repÃblica, jà na condiÃÃo de repÃblica velha. Concluiu-se que o projeto museolÃgico de Gustavo Barroso teve imensurÃvel contribuiÃÃo para a formaÃÃo de uma museologia moderna no Brasil, porque inaugurou um museu exclusivamente histÃrico, o primeiro curso de museus e ainda a primeira instituiÃÃo de salvaguarda do patrimÃnio do paÃs, de carÃter nacional, ligada à administraÃÃo federal.