As the clothing store advertisement extols, "An educated consumer is our best customer." (Bunch, 1995; as cited in Boyd, nd; p
Ideas are the principal means by which humans interact with objects in museums." (Boyd, Boyd relates that "the simple display of an object" can in itself be controversial
The DCHC project was set among a group of central Illinois museums, libraries, and elementary schools." (Bennett and Sandore, Bennett and Sandore relate that "collaborative governance, technological training and infrastructure, and decision-making have been effectively managed through a combination of face-to-face and asynchronous communications during the course of this eighteen-month project from its inception in mid-1999 to its close in December, 2000
SYSTEMATIC DISENFRANCHISEMENT When marginal voices are left out of the record of history the result is "systematic disenfranchisement." (Shilton and Srinivasan, 2006) Shilton and Srinivasan write that it is fortunate that archivists posses tools that aid in preserving "empowered, contextualized narrative and thick description to avoid distorting the record and marginalizing cultural identities
particular media, eras, or locations." (Nich, 2008) as well, the museum curator must be able to work as a team with others to make choices about displays and exhibition as well as in developing guidebooks and information plagues
LIBRARY The definition for cataloguing from the aspect of the museum is stated to be: "The compilation and maintenance of primary information by systematically describing objects in the collection, and the arranging of this information into an object catalog record." (Patch, 2004) in contrast, the library definition for cataloguing is stated to be: "The process of creating a record for each library item so that it may be found by various access points
a collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries and museums." (Bishoff, 2000) the goal of this project is to "increase access to the special collections and unique resources of the cultural heritage institutions through digitization
Donor could be so intuitive and knowledgeable about the art world so as to encourage appointing these particular artists and academicians to choose the art of the future. "The best artworks take the viewer outside his or her comfort zone and provoke discussion and debate" (Ackley, 2007, p
The representatives of the Montana Native Americans are so flattered and are so popular at the event that their protest over the first section is only politely listened to, while their approval of the second section is carefully covered. Museum staff lead tours of the other art objects in this particular exhibit, pointing out the relation of the rest of the Montana-oriented artworks to their Native American origins (Alexander, 1979)
After his appeal, the members of the Board rise to the occasion with various suggestions. They call upon their friends and networks of professionals throughout the nation to help manage this crisis (Cato, 2003)
After a few days the police apprehend two teenagers who are "wanna-be" artists, skulking around the house with cans of gasoline and matches and find that they had also been making crank calls, capitalizing on the publicity that the exhibition brought (Lord, 2000). As a result of these crisis-breaking maneuvers, the Director is able to keep his job and the museum becomes famous as an example of an avant-garde institution (Edson, 1996)
The director is flattered that the International Arts Council wants to award the museum with the Museum Hero Award in Paris, but he first offers the acceptance honors to Ima Donor and the Senator from Montana, who happily travel to Paris together to accept the award, and thus saves his job. He got the idea from a very old book on Museum Management (Goode, 1895, 20)
They are reminded of Heritage Tourism, one of the main reasons that people visit museums: Visitors travel long distances to see, learn about and experience cultural or natural objects, features, landscapes, people, sites, stories and events. "Visitors want to learn, see, and do! They travel to heritage sites for a mix of edutainment [sic] experiences" (Horn, 2007, para
The PETA people question the artist on how the animals and insects died and are reassured that the ladybugs, beetles and cicadas were plucked from the ground only after they had lain their eggs and were dying, while the deer and beaver skins were from animals in the zoo that had died of old age. The PETA people are handed complimentary bottles of wine or soda (their choice) and disburse (Kavanaugh, 2002
The PETA people question the artist on how the animals and insects died and are reassured that the ladybugs, beetles and cicadas were plucked from the ground only after they had lain their eggs and were dying, while the deer and beaver skins were from animals in the zoo that had died of old age. The PETA people are handed complimentary bottles of wine or soda (their choice) and disburse (Kavanaugh, 2002
They agreed that a bodyguard and 24-hour watch over the house was in order. After a few days the police apprehend two teenagers who are "wanna-be" artists, skulking around the house with cans of gasoline and matches and find that they had also been making crank calls, capitalizing on the publicity that the exhibition brought (Lord, 2000)
The artists are encouraged to enter their own works in the next competition so that they might have an opportunity to win it the following year. They quote Barry Scherr, saying "It is one thing to raise issues of quality or taste; it is another to make unsubstantiated or erroneous statements on those associated with a given project" (Scherr, 2007, para 3)
4. The governor of Montana and the senator are sent copies of the newspaper covering the Childcare panel, as well as copies of Time Magazine and ArtNews, along with a cover letter praising them for their perspicacity in becoming leaders of a state with such far-sighted museum directors, donors and artists, since this particular exhibition has now been nationally hailed as "ground-breaking" (Veverka, 2007)
According to the High's director, "Renzo Piano's 2005 expansion takes the High to a new level as one of the nation's great museums of the twenty-first century." (Shapiro, 2005) The additions have allowed for an increased number of more eclectic exhibitions including three brand new exhibitions pertaining to Harry Callahan's photographs of his wife, Eleanor, and an exhibition about 19th century folk art
"An altarpiece is a carving, painting, sculpture, screen or decorated wall made for a Christian church altar, the table at which mass is said… generally showing scenes relating to the life of the central figure. These are presented in chronological order and can be read like a comic strip" (Pioch 2002)