For this discussion, I chose to compare and contrast the two museums of the Alaskan local Anchorage Museum and the Museum of Northern British Columbia in Canada. Both museums showcase exhibitions on indigenous cultures of the circumpolar north. In this comparison between the two museums, I will be focusing on the elements of each museum’s…
Read MoreAlthough not as severe of a museum controversy, there is the controversy of museums not validating the authenticity of acquired collections. In this article by The New York Times, a French museum (i.e., the Terrus Museum) discovered that more than half of its collections of paintings were counterfeits. Before continuing the conversation about the controversy…
Read MoreFor this week’s assignment, I toured the ‘Votes for Women’ online exhibit of the Museum of London and the Smithsonian Museum’s ‘A Journey of Taste: Freer and Japanese Scroll Mounting’ exhibition. Both online museum exhibits were excellent in their design of presenting collections within each exhibit. The ‘Votes for Women’ online exhibit showcases an interactive…
Read MoreFor this assignment, I looked at a virtual museum tour from The Natural History Museum located in London, UK. This specific virtual tour guides virtual audiences through the museum’s tank room wherein various wet specimen collections are kept. Immediately, at the first glance, audiences are given the opportunity to engage in a 360 degrees view…
Read MoreLiving collections include botanical gardens, living culture collections, zoos, living anthropod collections, aquariums, and living museums. The attraction of living museums to the general public is immense. In fact, many living museums play a major role in contributing to local and national economies. They also contribute to scientific education, research, conservation, experimental research plots, and…
Read MoreFrom a historical viewpoint, museums have collected as a result of the Western interest in the curiosities of the unknown and strangeness. Not only was it to satisfy Western curiosity but museum collecting was also used as a method of forced assimilation and as a means of profit due to the social issue of colonialization.…
Read MoreFor week four’s discussion, I had difficulty finding a non-profit museum that had both a cultural and natural history collection but I decided to look into the governance structure of the Anchorage Museum. The Anchorage Museum is a non-profit organization that Seeks to fulfill the mission of being a museum for “people, place, planet, and…
Read MoreAs learned from this week’s module, there are various museum jobs with each having its own way of contributing to the functioning of a museum. The ideal museum job for me is undetermined as, similar to many folks during the Zoom meeting, I would want to bounce around each different museum opportunity until I find…
Read MoreAs learned from this week’s module, art museums are institutions that collect artistic items primarily as a means of unaided communication with its visitors. Therefore, in this week’s discussion, I am sharing a recent article that discusses the topic of an ancient Maya throne artifact loaned from the Guatemalan government to the Met Museum in…
Read MoreAs learned from class, a museum is basically a non-profit organization, that is both organized and permanent, with educational or aesthetic purposes in collecting tangible objects (i.e., collections). Not only do museums store and care for their collections but they also display parts of these objects to the public on a regular schedule. Museums, in a…
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