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Wade, Amanda E. "Balancing preservation and interaction in the museum setting." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1509Wade/umi-uncg-1509.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 28, 2008). Directed by Patrick Lee Lucas; submitted to the School of Human Environmental Sciences. Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152).
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Edmundson, Jane, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Fine Arts. "Dr. Soanes' Odditorium of Wonders : the 19th century dime museum in a contemporary context." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Arts, c2013, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3426.

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19th century dime museums were a North American phenomenon that flourished in urban centres from the mid- to late-1800s. Named thusly due to their low admission cost, dime museums provided democratic entertainment that was promoted to all classes as affordable and respectable. The resulting facilities were crammed with art, artifacts, rarities, living human curiosities, theatre performances, menageries, and technological marvels. The exhibition Dr. Soanes’ Odditorium of Wonders strives to recapture the spirit and aesthetic of the dime museum to invoke wonder in the viewer and to combine art, a
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Bhusate, Arvind M. "Intelligent Communication Technologies for Interactive Museum Exhibits." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519602.

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Dancu, Toni Nicole. "Designing Exhibits For Gender Equity." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/339.

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Gender equity has been a national and global aim for over half a century (Ceci & Williams, 2007; National Center for Education Statistics, 2003; National Science Board, 2008). While gains have been made, one area where inequity remains is spatial reasoning ability, where a large gender gap in favor of males has persisted over the years (Else-Quest, Linn, & Shibley Hyde, 2010; National Science Board, 2008; Ruble, Martin, & Berenbaum, 2006). This gender gap in spatial reasoning has had substantial societal impact on the career interests of females in areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, an
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Marsh, Hannah. "Memory in World War I American museum exhibits." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18813.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of History<br>Sue Zschoche<br>As the world enters the centennial of World War I, interest in this war is reviving. Books, television shows, and movies are bringing the war into popular culture. Now that all the participants of the war have passed away a change is occurring in in American memory. The transition from living to non-living memory is clearly visible in museums, one of the main ways history is communicated to the public. Four museums are studied in this paper. Two exhibits built in the 1990s are in the 1st Infantry Division Museum at Fort Riley, Kansas,
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Schneider, Amber N. Hafertepe Kenneth. "More than meets the eye the use of exhibitions as agents of propaganda during the inter-war period /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5309.

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Redvale, Jolene Kay. "Interactive exhibits in museums: Definitions, methods and visitor experiences." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1371.

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Eliason, Clint B. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supplemental Labels in Museum Exhibits." DigitalCommons@USU, 2007. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6124.

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The present study used an experimental design to investigate the efficacy of using short (12 words or less), prominently placed supplemental labels to increase the effectiveness of select extant labels in museum exhibits. The experimenter-developed supplemental labels were designed to leverage exogenous/bottom-up and endogenous/top-down sources of influence on selective attention. Measures of patron behavior, knowledge retention, and attitude found no significant differences between group means under control and treatment conditions. These outcomes were surprising and inconsistent with finding
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Benne, Marcie Rae. "Methods for assessing influences of the visual-spatial environment on museum display attraction." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/30341.

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Zheng, Su. "Promoting children's creativity : a design method for interactive museum exhibits." Thesis, Coventry University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492365.

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This thesis concerns the development ofa design method for interactive museum exhibit with the aim ofpromoting children's creativity. Key to the originality of this research is the development of the Creativity Surprise Model (CSM): a conceptual cognitive framework for the design of interactive museum exhibits. The model is unique in the way it combines areas oftheoretical discourse from a range of perspectives: constructivist learning theory, the philosophy of interactivity and developmental psychology and associated cognitive theories of creativity and motivational drives, into a unified mul
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Naujokaitis, Alina. ""Inside outer space exhibitions" : a museum intern's view of multi-sited exhibit performativity in Smithsonian Institution space culture /." Connect to online version, 2009. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2009/.pdf.

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Archibald, Joanna. "Museums and music : an argument in favour of a broader evaluation of the object-based nature of music collections in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15131.

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This work seeks to show that the experience gained through music in its practical and aural sense is not represented adequately in music museums because of the necessarily object-based nature of most museum displays. Restricting the analysis to museums - or their equivalent - in the United Kingdom, a representative cross-section of different museums containing music collections is studied. This material is discussed in terms of type, display, interpretation and visitors. Music's problematic standing in museums is subsequently ascribed to its essentially non-visual and transitory nature. A furt
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O'Donnell, Molly K. "Application of Darwinian evolutionary theory into the exhibit paradigm : implementing a materialist perspective in museum exhibits about Native Americans /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3074434.

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O'Mara, Bryanna Leigh-Anne Marie Haferetepe Kenneth. "Museums and controversy you can't have one without the other /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5078.

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Grobler, Elda. "Collections management practices at the Transvaal Museum,1913-1964 Anthropological, Archaeological and Historical /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05112006-101101.

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Osborne, Michelle. "The curator's room visceral reflections from within the museum : exegesis [thesis] submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Art and Design, 2004." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.

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Waite, Julia. "Under construction : national identity and the display of colonial history at the National Museum of Singapore and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Museum and Heritage Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1039.

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Neurohr, Theresa. "The seismic vulnerability of art objects /." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99782.

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Throughout history, objects of art have been damaged and sometimes destroyed in earthquakes. Even though the importance of providing seismically adequate design for nonstructural components has received attention over the past decade, art objects in museums, either on display or in storage, require further research. The research reported in this study was undertaken to investigate the seismic vulnerability of art objects. Data for this research was gathered from three museums in Montreal.<br>The seismic behaviour of three unrestrained display cases, storage shelves, and a 6m long dinosaur skel
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Carmany, Karstin Marie. ""The Miami don't have meetings like other people have meetings" : Miami community identity as explored through a collaborative museum exhibition creation process." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230613.

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Museums have been intimately connected to the discipline of anthropology since the colonial era when curiosity cabinets were created to house "exotic" items from afar that were used to represent "exotic" people and their cultures. However, with the postmodern debates in anthropology, both the discipline and museums have begun to realize that most displays reveal more about those who create them than about those who are on display. This realization combined with the rise in Native American concern for the control of material culture that was taken from them and their involvement in civil rights
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Sin, Song-Chiew James. "Arts, culture and museum development in Singapore /." View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030901.095617/index.html.

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Studart, Denise Coelho. "The perceptions and behaviour of children and their families in child-orientated museum exhibitions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1318009/.

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This study explores the part that child-orientated exhibitions play in the child and family museum experience. Such exhibitions are characterised by their distinctive approaches to learning, interpretation, and design, being especially devised for children. The research was carried out in children's galleries from three types of museum (a maritime museum, a science museum, and a children's museum) in order to compare and contrast similarities and differences between them. Since most of the research in this area has been carried out in science centres or science museums, there is a need to expl
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Sonter, Sharyn Louise. "The museum and the department store." View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030911.113738/index.html.

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Andersen, Evan. "An analysis of the art image interchange cycle within fine art museums /." Online version of thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11981.

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Rowlands, Mark Antony. "Using science museums to enrich and enhance primary school children's learning of science : children engaging in dialogue about museum exhibits." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568806.

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The research addresses issues identified in an ESRC Case studentship developed in collaboration between Manchester Metropolitan University and the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester. The original proposal had as its central aim "informing how museums can most effectively contribute to and enhance children's learning in primary school science". A case study is presented of upper primary school groups visiting the Museum, including discussions of the Museum's schools' provision and the practices of visiting school groups. Within that broader context, a main finding is that children can a
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Andrews, Erin Leigh. "Old Stories, New Narratives: Public Archaeology and the Politics of Display at Georgia's Official Southeastern Indian Interpretive Center." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/30.

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Presenting a case study of an American Indian exhibit at the Funk Heritage Center, I critically examine how this museum’s ideologies and preferred pedagogies shape public discourse about Southeastern Indians in the past and present. Using the methodology of Visitor Studies, this public archaeology project illustrates the benefits of incorporating applied anthropology into museological practice through collaboration with museum staff, volunteers, visitors, and American Indians. Operating within the theoretical frameworks of Charles R. Garoian (2001) and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1991), my
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Hillman, Thomas. "The physical context of hands-on interactive museum exhibits: Identification and categorization of pedagogically relevant concepts." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27371.

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Many options are available to designers when creating museum exhibitions. One particular option that can be chosen is the inclusion of exhibits that can be touched and manipulated, a style of exhibit often referred to as hands-on or interactive (Adams and Moussouri, 2002). Within this subset of exhibits, designers also have a multitude of choices to make that can affect the experiences visitors will have. The goal of this study is to help the transfer of research findings about learning and hands-on interactive exhibits to designers so that more-informed choices may be made. With this goal in
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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 m
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Walton, James Andrew. "Like Jacob with Esau: The 3D Printed Replica and the Future of the Museum." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83543.

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The importance of the aura, the metaphysical element that gives art, artifacts, and other objects of cultural heritage their authenticity, has been heavily contemplated ever since the publication of Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." This thesis strives to add to this conversation and expand upon it by delving into the emergence of additive manufacturing, or what is more commonly known as 3D printing, and its relation to museums and other institutions that comprise the public humanities. This technology challenges the auratic properties of an exhibit by
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Asgari, Hamid, and Kayvan Seyed Nejadian. "Important Parameters in Designing and Presenting Exhibits and Planetarium Programs in Science Centers : A Visitor-Based Framework." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Vetenskapskommunikation, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1173.

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This dissertation proposes an initial framework for designing and presenting exhibits in science centers and to recommend methods for improving the educational role of planetariums in science centers.
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Fradette, Rina. "Perception de la culture amérindienne à partir des pièces archéologiques et ethnologiques exposées dans un musée /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1998. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Andersson, Emma. "Kvinnogestaltning i utställningar : Hur det berättas om kvinnor i antika kulturer." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-370030.

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This study examines how women are represented in exhibitions about the ancient cultures of Greece, Rome and Egypt. The two museums which have been studied are the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the British Museum in London. Observations of the exhibitions, notes and interviews with museum personnel are the methods used in this study. The theory used is gender theory, focussing on Yvonne Hirdman’s gender system. The purpose of the study is to examine how the museums are working with representing women in ancient cultures, what objects are exhibited that re
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Soler, Mariana Galera. "Musealização da zoologia: narrativas evolutivas construídas com animais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/103/103131/tde-12112015-152426/.

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Os museus de história natural são instituições multifacetadas. Constituem-se como espaços privilegiados para discussão da teoria evolutiva, uma vez são instituições de pesquisa científica, repositórios de material comparativo e meios de comunicação, especialmente por meio de suas exposições. Neste trabalho, o animal é entendido como interface entre duas áreas: museologia e zoologia. Discute-se, então a musealização da zoologia, ou seja, os processos que tornam um animal objeto de museu (musealia) e o seu uso em narrativas evolutivas de exposições de museus de história natural. Para tanto, fora
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Sonter, Sharyn Louise. "The museum and the department store." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/553.

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This research aims to show the relationships between the museum and the department store and the visitor who engages with both institutions. The visitor to these spaces is the focus for the development of meaning, and reaction, to the objects on display in both spaces. The methods of interior and exterior design, planning and circulation, and object display, are discussed in relation to the vital context of the viewer, and the consequent construction of meaning and value. Value itself, becomes a recurring theme in these discussions since design and display within both institutions can perpetua
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Marsh, Diana Elizabeth. "From "Extinct Monsters" to Deep Time : an ethnography of fossil exhibits production at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50177.

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This dissertation traces the relationship between changing institutional cultures and the communication of knowledge to the public through exhibits, explored through an ethnographic and historical case study of a single set of halls at one museum—the fossil halls at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Having documented the first six months of planning for the NMNH’s new exhibit project, Deep Time, I show that many of the values and practices in current exhibits production have their roots in major cultural, professional and institutional shifts of the late-1950s. These
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Sin, Song-Chiew James. "Arts, culture and museum development in Singapore." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/240.

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This thesis discusses some aspects of the exhibition designer's role in state museums and galleries. It draws on the author's experiences in Singapore and his observations as a student living in Sydney. Museum exhibition designers are servants of the state. They help create public culture and promote a version of history. But if one is to understand the ways in which designers create meaning (and serve their employer's interests) we need to identify the 'vocabulary' and 'grammar' that they have at their disposal. To this end, the thesis outlines the variables that they work with and argues tha
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Liu, Ariel. "The relationship between engagement and learning in school students' interactions with technology-driven multimodal exhibits in museums." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5c8405d5-a834-4b0f-b160-56c988f452f8.

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This thesis reports a qualitative study of the use of multimodal technologies in museums— specifically, it examines the relationship between visitor engagement and learning, focusing on the use of multimodal technologies during school trips. The study was conducted in the Natural History Museum and the Churchill Museum, both in London, with participants from several secondary schools. These sites were chosen due to their concern for the added value of learning and public engagement, including their education-orientated investments in technology, museum activities, and architecture. In the cour
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Fournier, Anik Micheline. "Building nation and self through the other : two exhibitions of Chinese painting in Paris, 19331977." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82704.

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This thesis investigates Western exhibition practices and the problems that arise when they involve cross-cultural encounters. Two exhibitions of Chinese painting in Paris that were co-planned by French curators and Chinese artists will serve as case studies in this regard. The first exhibition is Exposition de la peinture chinoise held at the Musee du Jeu de Paume in 1933. The second show is Quatre artistes chinoises contemporaines held at the Musee Cernuschi in 1977. Using archival material, I will reconstruct the planning of the exhibitions and reveal diverging French and Chinese age
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Styles, Catherine Anne, and castyles@ozemail com au. "An other place: the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean framework." The Australian National University. Centre for Women's Studies, 2001. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20010904.111335.

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My thesis is that museum exhibitions developed according to Freirean praxis would constitute a better learning opportunity for visitors, facilitate the process of evaluation, and enact the favoured museum principles of dialogic communication and community-building. ¶This project constitutes a cross-fertilisation of adult education, cultural studies and museum practice. In the last few decades, museum professional practice has become increasingly well informed by cultural critique. Many museum institutions have been moved to commit to building communities, but the question of how to do so via e
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Utz, Laura Lee. "Museum Educator as Advocate for the Visitor: Organizing the Texas Fashion Collection's 25th Anniversary Exhibition Suiting the Modern Woman." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277589/.

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Suiting the Modern Woman documented the evolution of women's power dressing in the 20th century by featuring four major components: thirteen period suit silhouettes, the power suits of twenty-eight influential and successful high profile Texas women, a look at the career and creations of Dallas designer, Richard Brooks, who created the professional wardrobe for former Texas Governor Ann Richards, and a media room which showcased images of working women in television and movie clips, advertisements, cartoons, and fashion guidebooks. The exhibition served as an application for contemporary museu
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Boyle, Amy L. "Marcel Broodthaers and Fred Wilson : contemporary strategies for institutional criticism." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98914.

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This thesis compares two contemporary artists who practice institutional criticism, Marcel Broodthaers and Fred Wilson. Looking specifically at Broodthaers's fictional museum project the Musee d Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles from 1968-1972 and Wilson's 1992 installation Mining the Museum at the Maryland Historical Society, this thesis will critically analyze each artist's similar application of deconstruction as a method. Both artists employ allegory and history as aesthetic strategies of deconstruction; using allegorical structure, the artists mobilize objects that have been arrested in
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Seitei, Gloria Tiny. "Front End Evaluation of 'Tester' Exhibition to be Developed into a Travelling Sports Exhibition." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Vetenskapskommunikation, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1165.

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The purpose of this evaluation is to develop a framework that will help in planning and implementing the mobile sport exhibition, increase visitor satisfaction and aid At Bristol in building successful exhibits. The evaluation mainly focuses on visitor interaction with exhibits. It is believed that learning does occur in science centres and museums. The evaluation will therefore find out if learning occurs in the Sports exhibition and if so, the nature of the learning outcomes. The evaluation also discusses advantages and disadvantages of travelling exhibitions and identifies the characteristi
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Frede, David. "A tale of two zoos : a study in watching people watching animals." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3762.

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Zoological gardens, or zoos, keep and display wild animals, mainly for the purposes of education, conservation and biological research. However, it is evident that a significant component of zoos is the vast number of people who visit them, since without the support of visitors, zoos would not be financially viable and would cease to exist. This research investigates the behaviours of these visitors and develops an understanding of their awareness relating to what they see and do while they are in the zoo, along with their motivations for visiting. The study focuses on two major metropolitan z
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Frede, David. "A tale of two zoos : a study in watching people watching animals." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3762.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Zoological gardens, or zoos, keep and display wild animals, mainly for the purposes of education, conservation and biological research. However, it is evident that a significant component of zoos is the vast number of people who visit them, since without the support of visitors, zoos would not be financially viable and would cease to exist. This research investigates the behaviours of these visitors and develops an understanding of their awareness relating to what they see and do while they are in the zoo, along with their motivations for visiting. The study focuses on
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Pinto, Agda Araujo Sardinha. "O discurso identitário nos museus de Rio Branco, Acre: uma análise de narrativas expositivas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/103/103131/tde-12012015-105744/.

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No estado do Acre, sobretudo nas duas últimas décadas, foram implementadas obras, construções e reformas que modificaram profundamente as paisagens urbanas. Tais processos são mais visíveis principalmente na capital Rio Branco, onde diversos espaços foram criados e recriados para reafirmar o discurso identitário criado e veiculado na gestão do Partido dos Trabalhadores (1999 até o presente) inicialmente pelo \"governo da floresta\" (slogan do governo do Acre entre 1999 e 2006), e que ainda persiste nos governos subsequentes (2007-2013). Nesse contexto, os espaços de memória são utilizados como
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Paloranta, Jimmie. "Interaction with a large sized augmented string instrument intended for a public setting." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-187740.

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Interactive installations in public settings have increased in popularity over the past decade, as well as the construction of digital musical instruments. In this paper I present a study of the interaction with a large sized augmented string instrument intended for a large installation in a museum, with focus on encouraging creativity, learning, and providing engaging user experiences. In the study, 9 participants were video recorded while playing with the string on their own, followed by an interview focusing on their experiences, creativity, and the functionality of the string. I then used
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Kourková, Martina. "Studie řízení exponátů v Národním technickém muzeu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222122.

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The Master’s thesis deals with achievement of high-quality logistic activities concerning work with exhibits which should lead to the increase of cultural value of the National Technical Museum. As for the content of the work, it includes theoretical knowledge from the branch of museums, the description of the current premises for storing of the exhibits and the analysis of the curators’ activities. After the analysis some embarrassments are discovered and possible solutions are designed afterwards. The construction of a new depositary hall and the creation of a new division are the results.
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Cipora, John. "Using action research protocols to structure the development of a complex exhibit at a regional children's museum." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3303432/.

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Woods, Heather. "Exhibit design using advertising strategies." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006498.

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<p> This thesis proposal demonstrates the idea of using advertising strategies to engage the visitor, optimizing the short time the visitor spends in an exhibit. The art, object, and experience is treated as the product and the visitor, although they are not purchasing the product, is the consumer. Each topic is presented using a statement and corresponding image using advertising principles of keeping it short; delivering a clear narrative; and show, don&rsquo;t tell. Art, contemporary photography and video documentaries, combined with corresponding stories, are used to expand upon the exhibi
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Dickenson, Rachelle. "The stories told : indigenous art collections, museums, and national identities." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98919.

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The history of collection at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, illustrates concepts of race in the development of museums in Canada from before Confederation to today. Located at intersections of Art History, Museology, Postcolonial Studies and Native Studies, this thesis uses discourse theory to trouble definitions of nation and problematize them as inherently racial constructs wherein 'Canadianness' is institutionalized as a dominant white, Euro-Canadian discourse that mediates belonging. The recent reinstallations of the permane
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Meisner, Robin Stephanie. "Encounters with exhibits : a study of children’s activity at interactive exhibits in three museums." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606395.

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This thesis develops arguments relevant to learning in informal environments about the nature of the activity, interaction and collaboration that emerge in young children (ages 4-12) at specific interactive exhibits in informal learning institutions. Using video recordings of children's activity at ten different interactive exhibits as principal data, this thesis seeks to unpack the notion that children are merely 'just playing' with, at and around the exhibits - or, put differently, it aims to specify the activity behind 'interactivity'. In so doing, it explores the ways in which the diverse
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