For this post, I chose to focus on the Sitka Historical Museum in Sitka, Alaska and the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland. Both are absolutely fascinating places, by the way, and although they have very different scopes and focuses, they both focus a large amount on history. The National Museum of Iceland focuses…
Read MoreWhile trying to think of an out of the box controversy facing museums, I turned to one of my (morbidly) favorite topics – true crime. There are multiple true crime museums out there, and part of their exhibits include artifacts from infamous criminals, the more gore, the better. This is the controversy, as we’re talking…
Read MoreFor this post, I chose to highlight the differences and similarities in the Louvre Museum in Paris and the British Museum in London. The first online exhibit I explored was the Petite Galerie in the Louvre. The Louvre first set up 3D online exhibits during the Covid pandemic for school children and the online experience…
Read MoreFor this week’s discussion, I chose to focus on our very own UAF Museum of the North. Having been there so many times, I really have never paid attention to the digital media – turns out that I focus on the artifacts in the museum and not the videos or music! And there’s a lot…
Read MoreFor this discussion post, I went outside to hunt down some animals for photo purposes. Unfortunately, I found only magpies and robins, and they REALLY weren’t holding still for my impromptu photo session. Or at the very least, they were hidden in the thick branches of trees. So rather than use unidentifiable photos of birds,…
Read MoreFor this post, I chose the 8mm film and the stone tools found along the riverbank in the Brooks Range. After doing some really fun research, I found some of the most common things that lead to deterioration for both of these objects. Of course, both objects are made of vastly different materials, and so…
Read MoreFor this discussion post, I researched a museum I’ve always wanted to visit – the Smithsonian. While digging around the website, I discovered the leather jacket worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I immediately chose this jacket because Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is one of my favorite movies,…
Read MoreStrolling through an aquarium or a zoo as kid, I always wondered how the animals were fed, cared for, and if they ever went somewhere other than their enclosure. Little did I know then that I was hitting on some of the complications of having a living collection! Not that aquariums and zoos are the…
Read MoreAfter watching the videos and reading the materials this week, I got thinking about why museums collect the things that they do. Obviously, museums collect things that further their particular specialty – it wouldn’t make sense for a natural history museum to collect fine art. However, it seems that museums also collect things that further…
Read MoreI chose the Museum of the Rockies for this week’s discussion post. It’s a cultural and natural history museum in Bozeman, Montana, and the governance of the museum was very clear once I clicked on the “About” section of the museum’s website. The museum has a board of directors, along with several statements readily available…
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