The first online exhibit that I looked into was the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine exhibit at the Smithsonian Nation Museum of Asian Art. I believe that this exhibit is one that is online and also in person. The webpage about the Shrine Room and how it came to be is very in depth and has a…
Read MoreI decided to look into the Museum of Flight in Seattle Washington. I recently went there and thought that they would have some interesting pieces of media to look at. I went into their collections sections and started looking around until I found their collections related to space. I then chose the “First International Space…
Read MoreI wasn’t really sure about what I wanted to look up, so I just went onto iDigBio and clicked randomly on somewhere in Oceania. I’m not entirely sure what it is exactly that I clicked on, but it’s a mollusk of some kind. There was a lot of information regarding the specimen. They had information…
Read MoreI chose to take into consideration the different ways that a muzzleloader and lynx would be stabilized and preserved. For the muzzleloader, the main agents of deterioration we would have to consider might be fire, water, pests, light, and humidity. Fire is probably the agents of deterioration that every object would have to be protected…
Read MoreI decided to look at “Bird Pendant” from the Ancient American Art collection at the MET. Upon clicking on it, the first amount of information that was offered was some history about the object and where exactly it came from. It came from Costa Rica and is made of jadeite. There is also speculation that…
Read MoreI think that one of the most obvious complications with having living collections is the fact that you need to continuously care for these collections. With other types of museums, the objects that are in the collection are either already dead, or inanimate. Live animals require specific environments in order for them to live well…
Read MoreI think that the reason that museums collect have changed throughout the years. Obviously, as we learned through each module, the reasoning behind museums collecting things didn’t start off as a positive thing. They started out as cabinets of curiosities, and very few (if any) precautions were taken before the collectors took whatever “curiosities” they…
Read MoreThe museum that I chose to look into is the American Museum of Natural History. The museum does have a downloadable link that lays out their governance policy. It appears that a Board of Trustees runs a lot of the functions of their governing. In their governing policy there are also Officers of the Board,…
Read MoreI think that my ideal museum job would be something that would be behind the scenes, so nothing related to customer service or having to talk to a lot of people. That still leaves me with quite a few options to choose from. From there, I have a couple of jobs that we learned about…
Read MoreHow is a natural history museum different from other museum types? I think that one major way that Natural History Museums are different from other museum types is in what these museums offer. In a weird kind of way, I think of Natural History Museums as the “final boss” of museums. Many other museums usually…
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