For this week, I decided to focus on the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, which isn’t open quite yet, but grand opening is on June 27, 2023. It features empathetic storytelling of American history and is thus “one of the nation’s newest platforms for the disruption of institutionalized racism as it evolves…
Read MoreFor this discussion I will be sharing about the Mingei International Museum in Santa Barbara. I had trouble finding a museum that fitted into cultural and natural history. Here is some context pulled from the site; The Museum was founded in 1916 by William Leon Dawson as the Museum of Comparative Oology. In 1923, thanks…
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 MoreFor this question I chose the Chicago Field Museum for my examination. This museum received a short mention in some of the previous weeks readings, and I selected it largely due to it being a recognizable example that I was sure was sufficiently large and included both natural history and cultural collections. In addition, I…
Read MoreFor this week’s discussion, I decided to look into the governance of the Seattle Museum of art. In the mission statement for the Museum, it is stated that “Through art, the Seattle Art Museum enriches lives and engages diverse communities.” and draws on its exhibitions to provide educational resources that can benefit the people living…
Read MoreOne of my favorite museums in the DC area is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. It’s a place with infinite opportunities to learn and reflect. It’s a great place to visit by yourself, and spend a day immersing yourself in the museum. It’s also one of the free D.C museums, however, it is not part…
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 MoreThere are not many museums out there that has both natural history and cultural collections. In my search I came across the Los Angeles Museum, but their main focus is the La Brea Tar Pits which is cool but doesn’t help me much with this excitement. I asked my wife if she knew of any…
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…
Read MoreWhile trying to research and discover a large non-profit museum that had a natural history collection, I thought of the movie series “Night At the Museum” starring Ben Stiller along with the book series that the movies were based off of. I don’t know why I thought about movie for this assignment but I guess…
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