Museums

Question 1

Paragraph 1 - what/ origins

Answer 1

Products of the reinacance. Cabinets of curiosity. 1st museum open in 1634 - Pitt rivers museum opened in 1884 and still opened still looks the same.
What it is - non profit, permanent, service of society, for education, study and enjoyment and maybe politics.

Question 2

Paragraph 2 - perception

Answer 2

The way museums are perceived is crucial. Entirely determined by designers. Criticism for heritage centres - they show past as like a theatre and make it look fake.
Accuracy in reconstructions in vital to enable visitors make own connections and help understand past.

Question 3

Paragraph 3 - the good visitor

Answer 3

Need to achieve legitimacy in democratic society. Political view and transforming visitors perceptions. Glasgow culture Wars provide multicultural. First aesthetic approach - seemed unsympathetic and misguided.
Does liking certain exhibitions change your moral value? Everyone’s aspect of art is different

Question 4

Paragraph 4 - harmful

Answer 4

Unwillingness to share info in museums, minimal support. Basic display info. Useful or harmful? However free access are just simply social conventions or community fashions. Kelvingrove -dressed to impress simply aesthetic.

Question 5

Paragraph 5 - storage

Answer 5

A lot in storage problem?
c. 5% of a collection on display in a museum
Ashmolean: reopened 2009 with 100% increase
in display space
Kelvingrove: reopened
2006 with 50% increase in objects on display

Contextualising the object
(as opposed to ‘objectifying
the past’)
,Reconstructions and models
,Balance and accessibility
,Interactivity

Question 6

Sources

Answer 6

Archeology : an introduction - Kevin Greene, Tom Moore 2010

Museums, society, inequality - Richard sandell 2003 24-40