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Rebuilding the Past: Understanding the Role of Objects in Creating Authentic Experiences for Visitors to Living History Museums
Over the past 30 years, living history museums have seen declining visitation and sites are continuously challenged to deliver compelling historic-based experiences in modern times. Living history museums are uniquely ... -
Recovering from Natural Disasters: Helping Museum Employees Return to Workplace Normalcy
This study evaluated how museums help their employees return to workplace normalcy after a natural disaster affects their institution and professional lives, and to address what policies they used to facilitate this ... -
Redefining and “Re-presenting” Native American Collections and Curatorial Practice
The purpose of this study was to describe the collections and curatorial practices of three O’odham museums and centers in Arizona. Specifically, this study explored how these museums amended the frameworks of preservation, ... -
Reduced Admission: Benefits and Challenges for Children’s Museums
To offer reduced admission or not is a question that many museums struggle to answer. This qualitative case study examines the benefits and challenges that children’s museums experience by providing reduced admission through ... -
“Remember When We...?”: Personal Memory in Family Visits to History Museums
As children grow up, they do not just learn about history in school, but develop an image of the past from extracurricular influences, including family members’ stories and memories. Studies of family talk in museums suggest ... -
Resonance & Relevance: Reactions to Collaboratively Developed Display of Culture
As a field-wide effort to ameliorate criticism from post-modern anthropology and enlightened insights stemming from the "crisis of representation literature" (White, 2012), museums sought to incorporate multi-vocality in ... -
Responding to Funding Cuts as a Government-funded Museum
This research study analyzed how US museums survived the loss of government funding during the Great Recession in 2008. The adaptations and strategies that were adopted by museums in response to the Great Recession may ... -
Responsible Tourism for the New Museum: An evaluation of offsite museum travel programs
Museum tourism takes many forms. Through travel programs, museums, zoos, aquariums and gardens function as brokers of tourism offering curated trips to their public. Because of the many impacts that tourism can have, it ... -
Rethinking Centralization: Innovation In Early Soviet Avant-Garde Museology
The purpose of this thesis was to reconceptualize the organizational principle of centralization as innovative, using the early Soviet avant-garde museological experience as an historical case study (1917 to 1929). ... -
Rocking the Boat: Exhibition Methods of Storytelling the Experience of Gender & Sexuality in Museums
Abstract The goal of this qualitative exploratory research was to identify and describe emerging models for telling/sharing stories of female-identified and LGBTQ experience in museum exhibition. The research investigated ... -
The Role of Museum Marketing Departments During the Exhibition Development Process
This research study explores the role of museum marketing departments during the exhibition development process. Literature suggests a trend of museum marketing departments becoming increasingly involved in the exhibition ... -
Roles and Responsibility of Digital Engagement Managers in Art Museums
Digital technology is ubiquitous, inseparable, and permeates all aspects of our lives, but understanding how to use this technology in galleries and online, is not self-evident. As a result, some museums have established ... -
Science Fiction Exhibits as STEM Gateways
University of Washington Abstract Science Fiction Exhibits as STEM Gateways Samantha Robie Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Kris Morrissey, Director Museology Women continue to hold less than a quarter of all STEM jobs ... -
Science Fiction Exhibits as STEM Gateways
University of Washington Abstract Science Fiction Exhibits as STEM Gateways Samantha Robie Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Kris Morrissey, Director Museology Women continue to hold less than a quarter of all STEM jobs ... -
So We Beat On: How Native Interpreters at Living History Museums Experience Racial Microaggressions
For a long and painful time, dominant society has chosen how and for what purposes Indigenous history and identity is portrayed to the general public. From the racist ethnographic displays of yesteryear to the often ... -
Social Value in Museum and Funding Priorities
Within the museum field, there is a general assumption and expectation that museums should and do have what is broadly characterized as ‘social value’. However, little research has looked at the alignment between the ... -
Software-based Art: Challenges and Strategies for Museum Collections
(2013-07-25)Art museums are faced with how to implement policies and practices to acquire media-based artworks in the original formats while planning for potential maintenance, repairs and upgrades of technology. As Christine Frohnert ... -
STEM Programs for Girls: Making Them Last
The purpose of this research was to identify and describe the ways successful, informal STEM programs are sustained. This qualitative study included semi-structured interviews with five professionals who work or worked ... -
Strengthening the Roots: Culturally Responsive Museum Education
“It’s one thing to say you value something, but it’s another thing for organizations to institutionalize a value” As the United States population becomes increasingly diverse, the museum field has recognized the ways in ... -
"STUDY NATURE, NOT BOOKS": EDUCATION IN 19TH CENTURY NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS
(2012-09-13)This paper will examine three case studies, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and the American Museum of Natural History; these museums represent the national, university, and ...