MSM F211Becca Ray TurnerWeek 2 Module 2 There are so many different types of museums that it is difficult to name them all but, here are a few: Herbarium: everything plants and fungi, extinct and living. History Museums: have a little bit of everything about history which can also focus on just a few areas…
Read MoreOK, now that I am on a roll to get some credit for type 2 & 4 discussions here’s another one to ponder. Being a winter bird in annual migrations to New Mexico after 60 years living in Fairbanks, I have visited several museums in this desert state. One thing people think about when they…
Read MoreAlthough I am going retro and late to discuss museum types from module two I also am going into the future to discuss module 13 early for Northern Museums. One thing about this class is that it makes you consider the many little knowns about museums that are not necessarily brought to mind when we…
Read MoreThe origins of the Natural history museum don’t differ too drastically from other types of museums. For instance, both art museums and natural history museums grew out of private collections owned by wealthy individuals during the renaissance, and while art museums grew from galleries and salon, natural history museums grew from the cabinets of curiosities.…
Read MoreA Natural History Museum is a special kind of museum that displays a variety of exhibitions ranging a wide selection of topics, specializing, as the name implies, in the history of nature. These museums often display fossils and cadavers of specimens relating to the history of life on our planet. The natural history museum is…
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2). Types Discussion: What do you think is an important reason that there are several different types of museums? And/or what is/are your favorite botanical gardens/zoos/aquaria that you’ve visited? I believe that the collection and the management of museums can be intense and overwhelming at times. With this in mind, smaller museums may be more…
Read MoreNatural history museums are museums that collect and exhibit objects of biological, geological, and ecological relevance. I think the major difference between natural history museums and other types is its importance to research. That is not to say that other types are not important to research, but that natural history museums play a very large…
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There are many ways that you can define the differences between a natural history museum and other museum types. When I consider the differences I see, I consider how this particular kind of museum is received, the history of some of its practices and the lens from which the collections can be/are viewed. As noted…
Read MoreSince I have a conflict with our Thursday meet ups with and archaeology webinar in Colorado, I have to watch the recording a day later. So during the input from instructors and students, i got some great topics to comment on which I couldn’t chime in yesterday. And since I do my best talking after…
Read MoreThe discussion questions concerning museum typologies difference between natural history and regular ones (if there are such in the metaverse of museums) is somewhat naturally obvious to me from my visits over the decades to some of the big name ones such as AMNH, the Smithsonian and a smaller equivalent at Yale University in the…
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