"Museums at Play" provides an extraordinary and comprehensive international overview of the development, use and evaluation of games within museum and cultural contexts, through more than 40 detailed case studies.
Author: Katy Beale
Publisher:
ISBN: 1907697136
Category: Art
Page: 653
View: 412
"Museums at Play" provides an extraordinary and comprehensive international overview of the development, use and evaluation of games within museum and cultural contexts, through more than 40 detailed case studies.
As has been noted in relation to other memorial museums, issues of motive and
blame are particularly vexing. Some museums present the names of low-level
offenders, others assign blame more to structural forces at play.64 At the Museum
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Author: Stephen M. Norris
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253050311
Category: History
Page: 442
View: 499
How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range of fields explore various museums and include nearly 90 photographs, a common denominator emerges: rather than focusing on artifacts and historical documents, these museums often privilege memories and stories. In doing so, the museums shift attention from experiences of guilt or collaboration to narratives of shared victimization under communist rule. As editor Stephen M. Norris demonstrates, these museums are often problematic at best and revisionist at worst. From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.
Information hammers at us , morning , noon , and night — at work and at play .
There are even those who have proposed we organize means of submitting
ourselves to it during sleep . An enormous amount of this data we need in order
to go ...
No. 117. St. Jerome in prayer , a very fine composition , after Titian , by Niccolo
Beatricetto . No. 119. Children at play , after Raffaelle . The school of Cornelius
Cort follows , whilst the opposite wall is reserved for engravings by modern artists
.
Author: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany)Publish On: 1869
A Nymph presents the refreshing draught to a warrior ; a shepherd reposes with
his flock ; the play of a young maiden is accompanied by a youth with the flute .
The innocent playfulness of fancy is indicated by a young girl sprinkling and ...
This is a key thought because it points to the role museums can play in reshaping
their communities. The American cultural arena is a vital and competitive place.
In it, cultural expressions from all corners bump into and influence one another.
Modes of Exploring Science in Museums IBRAHIM YAHYA I could solve my most
complex problems in Physics if I had not given up the ways of thinking common to
children at play . J. Robert Oppenheimer ( cited in Samples , 1976 : 83 ) Albert ...
Author: Susan M. Pearce
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0485900068
Category: Science
Page: 207
View: 530
The relationship between science and the public is one of the great contemporary debates. Understanding between scientists and non-scientists is a key figure in the dialogue and here the interpretation of science in museums has a vital part to play.
Author: United States Information AgencyPublish On: 1959
S - M LET'S BE GOOD CITIZENS AT PLAY ( GUIDANCE Behavior ) 1636 . LET'S
MAKE A SANDWICH ( HOME MAKING ) Coronet LIBRARY ORGANIZATION (
INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS - Archives ; Libraries ; Museums )
Coronet ...
Author: United States Information AgencyPublish On: 1959
SAM LET'S BE GOOD CITIZENS AT PLAY ( GUIDANCE Behavior ) LET'S MAKE
A SANDWICH ( HOMEMAKING ) 1636 . Coronet + LIBRARY ORGANIZATION (
INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS Archives ; Librarles ; Museums ) 1618 .
Every member playing at any game shall count the pieces before returning them ,
and shall be liable for any that are lost or damaged by him . No one shall play
more than 2 games in succession if any other members are waiting to play . 20.
Every member playing at any game shall count the pieces before returning them ,
and shall be liable for any that are lost or damaged by him . No one shall play
more than 2 games in succession if any other members are waiting to play . 20 .
Maurice Davies , the deputy director of the MA , says two factors were at play : ' Museums were getting rid of stuff that was deemed unfashionable , such as 19th -
century paintings and ethnography , and there was also pressure to raise money
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Author: Elijah Howarth
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015066179618
Category: Museums
Page:
View: 732
"Indexes to papers read before the Museums Association, 1890-1909. Comp. by Charles Madeley": v. 9, p. 427-452.
Wales and Its National Museums Rhiannon Mason. The Politics of Display In her
... At the same time , there are broader discursive and hegemonic forces at play in
the construction of museums and representations . In national museums , party ...
Author: Rhiannon Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: IND:30000110543570
Category: History
Page: 300
View: 747
Explores the different ways in which Wales and Welshness have been represented in the national museums of Wales. This book examines how branches of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales are enlisted to narrate certain national stories as opposed to others, and how this correlates with changing perceptions of Welsh identities.
This volume explores how these conversations reflect and change a visitor's identity, discipline-specific knowledge, and engagement with an informal learning environment that has been purposefully constructed by an almost invisible ...
Author: Gaea Leinhardt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135640378
Category: Education
Page: 480
View: 107
What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum learning. People do not come to museums to talk, but they often do talk. This talk can drift from discussions of managing the visit, to remembrances of family members and friends not present, to close analyses of particular objects or displays. This volume explores how these conversations reflect and change a visitor's identity, discipline-specific knowledge, and engagement with an informal learning environment that has been purposefully constructed by an almost invisible community of designers, planners, and educators. Fitting nicely into a small but rapidly expanding market, this book presents: *one of the first theoretically grounded set of studies on museum learning; *an explicit presentation of innovative and rich methodologies on learning in museums; *information on a variety of museums and subject matter; *a study on exhibitions, ranging from art to science content; *authors from the museum and the academic world; *a range of methods--from the analysis of diaries written to record museum visits, to studies of preservice teachers using pre- and post-museum visit tests; *an examination of visitors ranging from age 4-75 years of age, and from known and unknown sample populations; and *a lens that examines museum visits in a fine grained (1 second) or big picture (week, year long) way.
Childern from 2 to 5 years love to play in continuous media such as moist sand ,
water and play dough . They knead , pour , build , press , flatten , scoop and
change the state of the object . The children playing with continuous media like
water ...
Author: International Council of Museums. Indian National CommitteePublish On: 1967
It can play a special role in Free India to - day for the emergence of a new and
integrated society provided it is given ... In view of their functional potentials as
mentioned above , the Anthropological museums at present in India may play the
...
Author: International Council of Museums. Indian National Committee
then be given the opportunity to intensify the experience through playing out the
same situation . This was our way of taking in experience from children's museums and science centres . The installations were to inspire tryingout ,
testing limits ...
This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.
Author: Hazel Moffat
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0742504085
Category: Art
Page: 197
View: 879
This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.
... some ways they clearly do ; but having seen the Hoard and many other museums of similar size and quality I have come to appreciate the significant role
that the small museums throughout the country play in the lives of their
communities .
It is also difficult to identify many other secular institutions that play such a
conservative role . ... To what extent might just such an insight serve to justify the
continued funding of museums by government at its current , or even a higher ,
level ?
Author: Stephen E. Weil
Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
ISBN: STANFORD:36105111996638
Category: Reference
Page: 273
View: 525
Weil has long been considered one of the museum community's most insightful commentators. In this volume of 29 essays, his overarching concern is that museums be able to 'earn their keep' in an environment of potentially shrinking resources.
