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Collections and You
People collect for a variety of reasons: interest, consumerism, fetishes, documentation of the past, and more. Museums collect to preserve, conserve, and interpret. No matter the reason behind the collecting the bottom line is that it happens. Who cares about … Continue reading
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Making Collections Accessible
Most museums with collections routinely keep up to 90% of their objects in storage at any given time. Considering the current trend of making museums more audience friendly, should museums then make their collections more accessible and open to the … Continue reading
100% Satisfaction Not Always Best for the Audience
The AAM’s Excellence and Equity highlights the importance of museums expanding their role as educational institutions, especially in terms of culturally diverse audiences. Roy Rosenzweig’s and David Thelen’s Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life attempts … Continue reading
Audience Centered Museums: The Unmitigated Expereince
Both in the readings for class and in my interview, I came across the phrase “unmitigated experience” in relation to one of the ways that visitors can take in a museum. To me an “unmitigated experience” is an experience where the … Continue reading
