Museum

Question 1

A museum must _______

Answer 1

• be organized
• be permanent
• be non profit
• have educational or aesthetic purpose
• employ professional staff
• own and utilize objects
• care for exibit objects on a regular schedule

Question 2

what is a common demoninator of all museums?

Answer 2

unique contribution to the public by collecting,preserving and interpreting things of this world

Question 3

Encyclopedia exhibitons surveys objects by ____

Answer 3

• era/location/ manufacture (antquities)
• cultural region/ period produced
• media
• use (ig instruments)
• context
• monograph- single artist
• providence (reuniting private collection)
• use objects to illustrate historical narratives

Question 4

Discurisive exhibitions

*discursive- digressing from subject to subject.

Answer 4

• depart from historical narratives
• refute and/or reposition of objects meaning
• emphasizes the curatorial (relating to the selection and organization of a museum or other collection.) perspective
• use objects to illustrate an abstact idea, theory or premise

Question 5

How is exhibitions success measured?

Answer 5

1. By its content:
   - theme
   - objects
   - how objects are displayed
   - how objects are interpreted
2. By the numbers:
   - visibles
   - membership, donations, revenue
   - “firsts” “ most” “only”
3. by its influence

Question 6

What is the the exibiton developement?

Answer 6

i. select theme ( must adhere to museums mission)
ii. curate and interpret the exhibition
iii. install exhibition
iiii. fund and promote the exhibition

Question 7

types of Print making

Answer 7

stencil and screen painting i.g posters, shirts with letters on it
Silk can be used: fabric is placed on wood and then use a stencil
Reliefs: woodcuts

Question 8

history painting

Answer 8

out of bible history

Question 9

portraits

Answer 9

important depicitions of important people

Question 10

genre painting

Answer 10

scenes from everyday life (people, animal, touches of still life, bits of landscape)

Question 11

animal painting found mainly in ____

Answer 11

europe

Question 12

still life

Answer 12

consists of materalistic things that you wont have after death

Question 13

sculptures include ____

Answer 13

carving 
modeling 
casting 
assembly
earth works 
installations and multi media

Question 14

Landscape

Answer 14

basically anything that is found in physical geography