Museums and American Culture @ Temple U
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Enlarge mikadx / iStock The Capitol Building, Washington Monument, Smithsonian Institution and Lincoln Memorial seen from across the Potomac River. In 2015, The African American History and Culture Museum will come to the Mall, but is being met with controversy.
The Root: Segregated Museums Mirror History : NPR
That’s the conclusion you may come to after seeing “Cronocaos” at the New Museum .
‘Cronocaos,’ by Rem Koolhaas, at the New Museum - NYTimes.com
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JSTOR: The Public Historian, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 1996), pp. 7-23
With concerts and shows at the recently renamed Temple Performing Arts Center, historical artifacts on display in the Blockson Collection and several public exhibits each year at the Tyler School of Art’s Temple Gallery, Temple is fast becoming a cultural destination for Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania. But in addition to these better-known cultural attractions, the university houses several hidden historical collections that offer their own unique treasures.
Exploring Temple’s lesser-known cultural gems
The University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies has the highest proportion of world-leading rated research in any subject in any UK university (RAE 2008). In its 40 year history, the School of Museum Studies – the only department in the country solely devoted to the study of museums and galleries – has played an influential role in the reinvention of museum theory and practice. The School has made a significant and sustained contribution to the international cultural sector and the field of museum studies through:
Amy Tyson, "Creating Emotional Comfort"
Pat Cooke, “Kilmainham Gaol: Interpreting Irish Nationalism and Republicanism”
This article may be of interest to those faced with presenting historic sites and museum exhibitions on subjects that are the source of social or political conflict within their society. Many of the leading figures in the Irish struggle for political independence were incarcerated or executed in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol during the years 1796-1924 when it functioned as a prison.
Walking into The Penn Museum, I expected to see the relics, paintings, statues, and the other artifacts they had.
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Take no prisoners
Representation, Space and Race: Some thoughts on the National Constitution Center and the President’s House in Historic Philadelphia. The National Constitution Center is at once an attempt to aggrandize the story of the writing of the Constitution of the United States of America, and an edifice of not so subtle understatement. The outer façade of the building is the history of the Constitution is confined to one floor, in an extremely small part of the building.Believe It or Not, It Is The Museum
Unlike the trend in the modern science museum which let visitors be more accessible to the exhibition stuff, the Wagner Free Institute of Science museum in Philadelphia shows how the traditional science of natural history should be. Based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, quite vast range of collection was systematically set on just one floor of around 150-year old museum, such as from the formation of earth with lava explosion to minerals, rocks, fossils, taxidermied ancient animal specimens and huge skulls. After about an hour of introduction of museum and touring all exhibitions, I found some fascinating parts in it.
Philadelphia Museums Field Research Analyses
I do not typically think of heritage as being debatable – I take for granted that family history, or a nations history, can only be presented as fact.This weeks tour of Eastern State Penitentiary was not only a museum lesson, but a lesson in prison and reform history as well. Our tour guide, Toby, was extremely knowledgeable about its history and current reform practices giving Eastern State relevance in today's world. Our tour lasted about an hour and a half and yet we only went through a fraction of the space and it made me think - is it necessary to preserve the entire crumbling structure when they might be able instead to keep just a part of it while still being able to educate and also make space for something else?
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Visiting the Academy of Natural Sciences was interesting especially for considering the concept of new media. Museum workers refer to their exhibits in jest as “The Dead Zoo,” but in reality that’s part of what the Academy offers to visitors.
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I had an interesting visit at the Powell House which I now must comment on.
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Heritage has recently become a major trend within museums.