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Ideally Reality: Alignment of Deaccession Policy and Emerging Practice in History Museums
(2012-09-13)Deaccessioning artifacts from museums has become a widely accepted practice as a tool for responsible and sustainable collections management. Standard deaccession policies have been developed to govern the ethical practices, ... -
One on One: An Exploratory Study of Facilitated Dialogue at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
(2012-09-13)This research examines the Interpretive Guide program at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as a case study and counterexample to common practices of facilitating interpretive experiences in art museums. Interpretive ... -
Museum Engagement with Veterans, and Representations of War and PTSD
(2012-09-13)While museums, in particular history and military museums, have long included representations of war and soldiers, there is one area that is not as visible: that of the veteran who returns home from war physically intact, ... -
"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 ... -
Examining Folk Pedagogies of Science Exhibit Designers
(2012-09-13)Science museum exhibits have the potential to positively impact science education, scientific literacy, public engagement with science and interest in the STEM fields. The personal exhibit design philosophies or "lay ... -
Deeply Connective Encounters with Museum Objects
(2012-09-13)Deeply connective encounters with museum objects are a significant yet under-studied phenomenon. These experiences are characterized by qualities such as transporting the person involved out of the flow of their daily life ... -
Comfort and Connectivity: The Museum as a Healer
(2012-09-13)This thesis will seek to address why and how museums can be effective places to help resolve grief and transcend suffering. The objective is to identify practical ways in which museum staff can respond to tragedy which may ... -
Putting the Formal in Informal: Doctoral Study and Museum Education
(2012-09-13)The last few decades marked a period of rapid growth and change in the field of museum education; the position and value of education rose across institutions, coinciding with intensified scrutiny of the qualifications, ... -
Beyond Depiction: Engaging with Homeless Adults
(2012-09-13)Homelessness is an enduring issue that has received increased attention over the last few years. Indeed, the recent financial crisis left many people homeless for the first time and made it harder for those already homeless ... -
Wage Earning Women of the Industrial Age: Representation in Northeastern American Historical Museums
(2012-09-13)This thesis provides an assessment of the representation of wage-earning women of the American Industrial Age (1800-1915) at twelve museum exhibitions and presents data that illuminates the contemporary portrayal of women's ... -
Collaborative Creativity: Creating Participatory Experiences in Art Museums
(2012-09-13)University of Washington <bold>Abstract<bold> Collaborative Creativity: Creating Participatory Experiences in Art Museums Meghan E. Brummett Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Kris Morrissey, PhD Museology As contemporary ... -
Docent Remix: Profiles of Art Museum Docents in the Modern Museum
(2012-09-13)<bold>Abstract</bold> Museum scholarship has focused on the critical self-evaluation museums have undergone in the last century that has lead to a transformation of the museum paradigm. By shifting focus from operating as ... -
Private Events, Public Spaces: Why Guests Choose Museums as Hosting Sites, A Case Study at the Museum of Flight
(2012-09-13)Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to determine why guests choose museums as hosting sites for their private events. A brief survey of Seattle museum websites reveals that many area institutions offer private event ... -
Cold War, Hot Topic: Museum Representations of `Communism' in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe
(2012-09-13)The Cold War era--post-WWII until 1989--presents an array of challenges to interpretation in museum exhibits because of the abundance of national, local and individual experiences it encompasses. In Central and Eastern ... -
The Public Work of Care: Emerging Art Curatorial Community Engagement Practices
(2012-09-13)Public programming, community outreach, visitor studies and education departments have been central to discussions in the art museum field about strategies for community engagement. However, little documentation is available ... -
Changed Perceptions About Science Communication: A Case Study of STEM Graduate Students in Portal to the Public
(2013-02-25)Current research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains largely unavailable to nonscientists. The existing structure of the academic tenure process in universities and STEM graduate training ... -
Preservation, Access, and Digital Connections: Processing the Blanche Payne Yugoslav and Other Regional Costume Photograph and Drawing Collection
(2013-05-30)This thesis project seeks to process, make accessible, and virtually connect the Blanche Payne Yugoslav and Other Regional Costume Photograph and Drawing Collection, held at the University of Washington Libraries’ Special ... -
Ethnic Identity Formation in Adolescence: Impact of Teen Programs in Museums
(2013-07-25)While there is an emerging body of literature on teen programs in museums, research has not addressed how these programs affect adolescents' racial, cultural, or ethnic identities. This qualitative study explores how teen ... -
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 ... -
Tribal Cultural Centers: Planning for Today and Tomorrow
(2013-07-25)Tribal Cultural Centers: Planning for Today and Tomorrow At the end of the 20th century, tribal museums were one of the fastest growing sections of the museum field, but since then little has been published on the tribal ...