As we learned in this module, there are many types of museums. When I think of natural history museums I tend to think of museums that cover a blanket topic for a specific area. They cover topics of animals, plants, land, people, and culture for one place. Living in Washington, DC for almost a decade…
Read MoreWhat makes a Natural History Museum different than other types of museums? Obviously, natural history museums have the largest collection of items among museums – they deal with not only the history of the natural world, but also the present. But they also have a ton of different categories to cover! Animals of the region…
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 MoreFor this week’s discussion, I would like to talk about the types of museums I’ve worked at in the past and in the current time.. This week’s module focused more on the types of museums that are available for the public to explore, which included small museums and university museums. As I am from Anchorage…
Read MoreA natural history museum is a place you go to increase your knowledge and understanding about the natural world. They are science museums or institutions that house well documented objects and specimens of all sorts collected for research or scholarly use… scientific inquiry rather than connoisseurship. Employing systematic processes for collecting, cataloging and displaying specimens…
Read MoreI do not have much personal experiences on the inner workings of museums or just a general knowledge of museums in general. There may be different categories of Natural Museums as I have just learned. When I think of Natural History Museums, I think of skeletons or fossils of dinosaurs, extinct mammals, plants, or animals…
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…
Read MoreFor this week’s discussion, I have decided to share my thoughts on a recent article about the Native American Burial Mounds at the Dickson Mounds Museum. Some background: this museum is a branch of the Illinois State Museum and currently contains at least 7,000 remains of Native Americans. In the 1920’s, a chiropractor, Don Dickson,…
Read MoreThis week’s question asks how Natural history museums differ from other types of museums. As we covered in the first part of the the semester, what exactly classifies a museum is not a rigidly defined set of guidelines and a wide range of institutions can be classified as museums despite differences in size, focus and…
Read MoreWhen I think about Natural History Museums, I think about mostly the fossils that are displayed for the general public. Fossils like dinosaurs, ancient ancestors of animals, even skeleton remains of ancient human species like the Neanderthals, Homo Erectus, etc. What makes Natural History Museums different compared to a General Museum or a even History…
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