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This is very helpful. I am giving a keynote address in Milwaukee in early
October with the title "The History of Museums." I will appreciate
additional literature suggestions that will take me beyond this interesting
material on science museums. What about art, history, children's,
specialized, etc.? Thanks for the help.
Mac West
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Hi Matthew,
Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen it, and I wondered what happened with the
research.
C
On Sep 1, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Matthew White <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Try:
>
> Rader, Karen A, and Victoria E.M Cain. "From Natural History to
> Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science
> and Nature." Museums and Society 6, no. 2 (2008): 152 - 171
>
> Available as PDF:
> http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents
> /volumes/radercain.pdf
>
> Here is the abstract:
>
> This paper explains how and why many American museums of science and
> nature moved away from the traditional content and methods of natural
> history in the period from 1930 to 1980. It explores diverse
> motivations for the shift from dead, stuffed displays to live,
> interactive exhibits, and the consequences of that shift for museums as
both educational institutions and as institutions of research.
> Ultimately, it argues that debates over museums' content and display
> strategies drew strength from and reinforced a profound transformation
> in the institutional history of twentieth-century American science and
> technology: namely, the separation of research and public education.
> By the late 1960s, the American museum landscape had been transformed
> by this development. Older natural history museums competed for
> visitors and resources with 'new' style science museums, and although
> both remained popular cultural institutions, neither had achieved a
> coherent new institutional identity because debates about the role of
> the museum in science continued. Thus, we suggest, in the
> mid-twentieth century natural history and science museums were more
> important in both the history of biology and the history of science's
public culture than has previously been acknowledged.
>
> There are lots of great articles on specific museums and
> education/display. There was also a special section of the History of
> Science Society's Journal Isis on the history of science and museums.
> The full reference is: Isis, Vol. 96, No. 4, December 2005
>
> Good luck,
>
> Matthew White
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>> All,
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>> I am co-teaching a course at Penn this year entitled "The Informal
Learning Experience" (which is WAY COOL!!). I am looking for one or two
articles (not books) about the history/evolution of science museums. Any
suggestions?
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> Nancy Peter, Ed.D.
>> Director, Out-of-School Time Resource Center
>> 3815 Walnut Street
>> University of Pennsylvania
>> Philadelphia, PA 19104
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