Welcome to module 14
Learning Objectives
lecture THEMES
Health and Wellbeing
Instructor Josh Reuther discusses the relationship of the concepts of health and well-being in relation to museums. (11:39)
Recorded zoom lecture by Dr. Sveta Yamin-Pasternak use Passcode: rHZ+L73v
Decolonization, Cultural Sovereignty, & Social Justice
Museums in the 21st century are like many institutions today that are undergoing profession-wide self reflection centering on topics related to “DEAI” – Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion. Specific actions such as decolonization, cultural sovereignty, and other social justice actions attempt to shift power from the dominant (white) society and redirect it to peoples who have been repressed and subjugated over the centuries. Readings for this week provide both institutionalized views of decolonization (AAM TrendsWatch 2019) as well as writings from those who are part of the effort to transform museum work. Take some time to read through @ChangetheMuseum posts on Instagram to get a sense of the microaggressions BIPOC museum professionals face on a daily basis and think about why it is important that all museum professionals be aware of the systemic racism, not to mention sexism, that still exists in museums around the world.
Climate Change
Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium Steffi Ickert-Bond discusses the 6th mass extinction during the biodiversity crisis of the anthropocene with examples of shifting geography of life, inequality of diversity knowledge, food sovereignty, crop wild relatives and what role museums play in detecting and mitigating biodiversity loss. Museum curators and professionals working within natural history and cultural museums are uniquely equipped to be engaged in a mission that is constructive and socially worthwhile – documenting, researching, and contributing to mitigation of biodiversity and biocultural diversity loss. (19:53)
Andres – Citizen science. Please see the required reading on “Citizen Science as a Tool for Augmenting Museum Collection Data from Urban Areas” – D. Spear et al. (2017)
Scott Shirar discusses the use of museum collections as paleoarchives to provide data on paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental change. (11:08)
Sustainability & the Future of Museums
What is sustainability? How does it apply to museums? In this lecture, UA Museum Director Patrick Druckenmiller explores economic sustainability, a timely topic given the impacts to the financial well-being of museums globally. Even when not dealing with a pandemic, museums face constant economic threats; here we discuss the major funding streams for museums and why it is important to have a diversified financial foundation. We use the UA Museum of the North as a case study.
vocabulary
Activities / Assignments
Looking Forward
Learning Objectives
lecture THEMES
Health and Wellbeing
Instructor Josh Reuther discusses the relationship of the concepts of health and well-being in relation to museums. (11:39)
Recorded zoom lecture by Dr. Sveta Yamin-Pasternak use Passcode: rHZ+L73v
Decolonization, Cultural Sovereignty, & Social Justice
Museums in the 21st century are like many institutions today that are undergoing profession-wide self reflection centering on topics related to “DEAI” – Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion. Specific actions such as decolonization, cultural sovereignty, and other social justice actions attempt to shift power from the dominant (white) society and redirect it to peoples who have been repressed and subjugated over the centuries. Readings for this week provide both institutionalized views of decolonization (AAM TrendsWatch 2019) as well as writings from those who are part of the effort to transform museum work. Take some time to read through @ChangetheMuseum posts on Instagram to get a sense of the microaggressions BIPOC museum professionals face on a daily basis and think about why it is important that all museum professionals be aware of the systemic racism, not to mention sexism, that still exists in museums around the world.
Climate Change
Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium Steffi Ickert-Bond discusses the 6th mass extinction during the biodiversity crisis of the anthropocene with examples of shifting geography of life, inequality of diversity knowledge, food sovereignty, crop wild relatives and what role museums play in detecting and mitigating biodiversity loss. Museum curators and professionals working within natural history and cultural museums are uniquely equipped to be engaged in a mission that is constructive and socially worthwhile – documenting, researching, and contributing to mitigation of biodiversity and biocultural diversity loss. (19:53)
Andres – Citizen science. Please see the required reading on “Citizen Science as a Tool for Augmenting Museum Collection Data from Urban Areas” – D. Spear et al. (2017)
Scott Shirar discusses the use of museum collections as paleoarchives to provide data on paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental change. (11:08)
Sustainability & the Future of Museums
What is sustainability? How does it apply to museums? In this lecture, UA Museum Director Patrick Druckenmiller explores economic sustainability, a timely topic given the impacts to the financial well-being of museums globally. Even when not dealing with a pandemic, museums face constant economic threats; here we discuss the major funding streams for museums and why it is important to have a diversified financial foundation. We use the UA Museum of the North as a case study.
vocabulary
Activities / Assignments
Looking Forward
Health and Wellbeing
Instructor Josh Reuther discusses the relationship of the concepts of health and well-being in relation to museums. (11:39)
Recorded zoom lecture by Dr. Sveta Yamin-Pasternak use Passcode: rHZ+L73v
Decolonization, Cultural Sovereignty, & Social Justice
Museums in the 21st century are like many institutions today that are undergoing profession-wide self reflection centering on topics related to “DEAI” – Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion. Specific actions such as decolonization, cultural sovereignty, and other social justice actions attempt to shift power from the dominant (white) society and redirect it to peoples who have been repressed and subjugated over the centuries. Readings for this week provide both institutionalized views of decolonization (AAM TrendsWatch 2019) as well as writings from those who are part of the effort to transform museum work. Take some time to read through @ChangetheMuseum posts on Instagram to get a sense of the microaggressions BIPOC museum professionals face on a daily basis and think about why it is important that all museum professionals be aware of the systemic racism, not to mention sexism, that still exists in museums around the world.
Climate Change
Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium Steffi Ickert-Bond discusses the 6th mass extinction during the biodiversity crisis of the anthropocene with examples of shifting geography of life, inequality of diversity knowledge, food sovereignty, crop wild relatives and what role museums play in detecting and mitigating biodiversity loss. Museum curators and professionals working within natural history and cultural museums are uniquely equipped to be engaged in a mission that is constructive and socially worthwhile – documenting, researching, and contributing to mitigation of biodiversity and biocultural diversity loss. (19:53)
Andres – Citizen science. Please see the required reading on “Citizen Science as a Tool for Augmenting Museum Collection Data from Urban Areas” – D. Spear et al. (2017)
Scott Shirar discusses the use of museum collections as paleoarchives to provide data on paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental change. (11:08)
Sustainability & the Future of Museums
What is sustainability? How does it apply to museums? In this lecture, UA Museum Director Patrick Druckenmiller explores economic sustainability, a timely topic given the impacts to the financial well-being of museums globally. Even when not dealing with a pandemic, museums face constant economic threats; here we discuss the major funding streams for museums and why it is important to have a diversified financial foundation. We use the UA Museum of the North as a case study.
vocabulary
Activities / Assignments
Looking Forward
We look forward to reading your final assignments. Please be sure to complete the course evaluation so we can integrate changes for next semester!
Did you know?
Fun tidbit not to be tested on.
The National Museum of the Faroe Islands has a permanent exhibition that offers an experience of the geology, botany, zoology, archaeology, folk-life, and history of the Faroe Islands. The open air museum, the farm of Hoyvíksgarður is situated in a beautiful green valley just outside Torshavn. Tinganes, where parliament met for the first time in year 825, is thought to be one of the oldest parliamentary meeting places in the world still in use.
Fun tidbit not to be tested on.
The National Museum of the Faroe Islands has a permanent exhibition that offers an experience of the geology, botany, zoology, archaeology, folk-life, and history of the Faroe Islands. The open air museum, the farm of Hoyvíksgarður is situated in a beautiful green valley just outside Torshavn. Tinganes, where parliament met for the first time in year 825, is thought to be one of the oldest parliamentary meeting places in the world still in use.
