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Dear Eric,
John Falk wrote a book that was published this spring called /Identity
and the Museum Visitor Experience,/ which addresses many of the ideas
mentioned in your course description (and title!). Here's a link to more
information on the book: http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=214
Best,
Stefania
Stefania R. Van Dyke
Museum Studies and Practice
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Karen Reeds wrote:
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> That sounds like a terrific course!
>
> I suggest Terri McNichol, Ren Associates
> (http://www.benshen.com/renassociates/about.htm), as a guest speaker.
> She recently shared with me a draft of an essay-in-progress that seems
> pertinent to your class's themes. It's about a very fruitful
> assignment she has given community college students for a number of
> years. She has required them to visit museums (often their first
> time), to choose a single piece of non-Western art, and to write about
> their responses to the object.
>
> Beyond showing how this bears on museum audiences and cultural
> diversity, Terri connects the students' experiences to larger issues
> of sustainability, organizational development, and critical thinking.
>
> Rather than simply inviting Terri to talk about this project, you
> might want to have her give a mini-workshop--in effect, replicating
> the assignment with your students and then talking about how to use
> the strategy in practice in other settings. I think it would provoke a
> very interesting discussion.
>
> Karen
> Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
> Independent exhibit curator and museum consultant
> Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of
> Pennsylvania
> Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America exhibition,
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>> Eric Siegel <[log in to unmask]> 11/22/2009 8:04 PM >>>
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>> Hello, all: Preeti Gupta and I are co-teaching a class with the
>> above title at the NYU Museum Studies Grad program. Its a new
>> course, so I am trying to think who we could invite to come speak as
>> guest lecturers beyond the usual suspects. Ideally they would be new
>> yorkers, or in the area.
>>
>> Also, if you have cool ideas for readings or media that we should
>> know about that would be great too.
>>
>> Here is the course description....
>>
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>>
>> This course will combine readings, project based learning, and
>> dialogues with museum leaders to address the intersection of museums,
>> the communities they serve (or aspire to serve), and the individual
>> visitor. As cultural diversity becomes the norm for communities
>> throughout the country, museums are challenged to develop strategies
>> to engage with this diversity. At the same time, the motivations of
>> museum-goers as individuals or in small groups continues to be a
>> topic of considerable interest and research. The course will address
>> both the theoretical and applied approaches to understanding new
>> audiences and building institutions and programs that address the
>> emerging needs and concerns of these audiences. Eric Siegel, the
>> Director and Chief Content Officer of the New York Hall of Science,
>> with nearly 30 years of experience in museums throughout the boroughs
>> of New York City, will co-teach this course with Dr. Preeti Gupta,
>> the Hall of Science's Senior Vice President for Education and Family
>> Programs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Eric Siegel
>> esiegel at nyscience dot org
>> projects web site at http://www.etsiegel.net
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