The purpose of this research thesis is to determine at what level the Lost Cause narrative plays a role in how museums teach the history of the Civil War. I will use secondary data analysis, archival study, and interviews conducted in the past as well as interviews I conducted m…
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The study investigates how museum and gallery buildings can be designed to give functional longevity and appeal. It considers this in terms of their design and relation to their surroundings and use in the context of changing social, cultural, political and economic factors. Pos…
There are about 300 archaeological open-air museums in Europe. Their history goes from Romanticism up to modern-day tourism. With the majority dating to the past 30 years, they do more than simply present (re)constructed outdoor sceneries based on archaeology. They have an impor…
The advancement of technology has come to pass by the age of the current museum world. The main focus of museums is to preserve historical and cultural important items and use them to educate the public. The current standards in museums has not kept up with the changing of time …
Within public history the concept of digital curation is, comparatively, relatively new despite the growing role it plays in the education of the public for any institution. While museums and other institutions, such as archives and libraries, work to uphold long established sta…
This study explored the phenomenological experiences of costumed interpreters who wear period dress while working at living history museums, specifically the meanings they gave to their clothed experiences. This study highlights the wearer of period clothing, rather than the pro…
Collectors and curators fill the public’s museums with things. This study looks at the process by which the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City converted private things to public benefit over the years from its founding in 1870 through 1970, when it acquired collections …
City museums and local history museums are responsible for collecting, preserving, interpreting, exhibiting, and centering programs on the growth and change of their cities. This research study examines the methods museums use to respond to significant shifts in the ethnic demog…
This paper is a discursive expansion on a condition report and treatment proposal for an incomplete day and evening ensemble, made by the house of Worth & Bobergh circa 1866-1868 and now held by the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (2019.1602.1A-R).…
In its descent from cabinets of curiosities to museums, the exhibition of knowledge is shifted from inclusiveness to specialization. This evolution from the general to the specific is well-preserved in London’s Albertopolis. Where the ultimate cabinet - the Crystal Palace - once…
Many critics of traditional museums call them “mausoleums”, or frozen spaces where heritage stagnates. This critique is because of issues in the museum world in recent years of reduced engagement, along with complaints of museums being too “clinical” to properly show off the art…
In asking the question, “Which way to the modern art museum?” this dissertation explores how the Moroccan cultural elite of the 1960s and 70s engaged with global discourses on art, modernity and the cultural infrastructures that support them. After Moroccan independence from Fra…
Many contemporary artists have turned to the past in order to negotiate and make sense of their relationship with the present. Similarly, museums have begun to look back in order to push forward and through a revisionist lens they scrutinize their collections and reveal ignored …
In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural history museum is attempting to decolonize, they must do …
This study described the extent to which local history museums established place identity among museum members. Understanding the small history museum’s role in shaping place identity could be beneficial to developing and sustaining museum audiences and could be vital to a museu…
Upon examining definitions of Cultural Heritage as proposed by some of the discipline’s primary scholars, one can derive the necessary classifications and objectives that make certain institutions examples of cultural heritage institutions. By virtue of promoting the education o…
Background: Museums have been fundamental tools outside of formal learning environments in providing new learning and to support knowledge acquired in the traditional classroom. Museum spaces can add to the learning development of all students, yet the focus of this research is …
Founded in 1855 on the principle of a cost-free science education for all, the Wagner Free Institute of Science remains one of the oldest operating museums in the United States. For nearly fifty years, the institute flourished in Philadelphia’s scientific community under the inf…
Originating in the late nineteenth century, the Georgia Capitol Museum consists of several exhibits inside the legislative building in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the years, control of the museum has changed hands many times, yet neither legislators nor museum professionals have ever…