Museology

The Ambrose and Paine text defines a Museum as “a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserve, researches, communicates, and exhibit the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.” After a recent visit to The Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, I have concluded that this museum is a model example of the various ways in which today’s museum…

Museums can be a reliable resource for learning new information or seeing famous works of art. When securing a new piece of art for a museum, several factors must be considered. Among these are morality, truthfulness, and cost of the piece. They must all be considered together to have a successful piece of art for a museum. The truthfulness of a piece must be taken into account when acquiring it for a museum. The art should be an accurate representation of what actually happened, or at least…

The Art Museum as Ritual is an article written by Carol Duncan that questions the role and function of public museums. In this article, Duncan shows his dissatisfaction with the way museums use objects of art to come up with particular political meanings aimed at achieving a certain purpose. According to her, some nations came up with western style museums to be perceived as having desirable diplomatic or political allies. This essay summarizes the main ideas in the article by Carol Duncan,…

Freddy Ramirez Professor Brown Art History 141 26 May 2015 Fowler Museum Project The Fowler Museum was an interesting experience. The name of the Exhibition is Intersections: World Arts/ Local Lives, the exhibition doesn’t have an ending. The name of the organizers and curators were not provided. The art is interesting for the facts that the people who made the art pieces put a lot of dedication and time in wanting to make them look great. The first section in the exhibition is the Art and…

Touring the Smithsonian Museums with the Sociology class was fascinating. Some scholars observed in wonder of the various Native American clothing and toys that were displayed. Others gasped at the astonishing display of the John Bull locomotive that peaks ones interest in the railroad bridge. A lot of the scholars did not notice the significance of the Civil War Union Draft Wheel until after they read the markers explaining the power that these types of wheels possessed. Each exhibit was…

Of all the exhibits, the “hate room” was my favorite. I learned more information about the artifacts in that room than the artifacts in any other room. I learned from the other rooms, but it wasn’t anything I didn’t have a general idea of. In the “hate room,” I saw how racial stereotyping influenced advertising. The first thing that caught my eye was the black cast iron banks. I always saw pictures of how we were depicted in the eyes of the media early on, but I never saw an actual prop. They…

Pathos, however, can be seen as a crucial element in museology, a way to distance itself from 20th c. museum strategies as it promotes a multi-vocal perspective against the tendencies of master narrative . For instance, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris can be seen as an open cultural centre rather than a museum…

Today I love the History of Art, I stay with the old, the classic, that culture from Prehistory, I also also think it's really CULTURE. In the future today, there are many exits, you can do many master's, teacher, archeology, museology, restoration ... Today every day I think a different thing, although every time I am more passionate Egypt, I would love to dig in Egypt if I were an archeologist , it would be incredible, but I would have to me more intelligent and dedicated to…

I was born into a family of educators who believed that knowledge is power. All throughout my life, I have been pushed to excel in my educational matters. I developed my own path in life and inspired myself to achieve my dreams. However, I never could have made it to this state of self-motivation and believing in myself had it not been for my family’s dedication to creating the best life possible for me and the countless mentors I had the privilege of knowing along the way. Even as a…

In this essay I will look at key texts relating to heritage and how it is defined and debated by different scholars. I will investigate how they use nature as a base for constructing our national and cultural heritage identity using Scandinavia as an example. These key texts include the essay Regional cultural heritage versus national heritage in Scania's disputed national landscape essay by Tomas Germundsson and the Nature as heritage: the Swedish case, by Bosse Sundin. Their key points on how…