Anna Thompson interned here in the past, and the organization is looking for another intern:
http://www.openmuseum.org/webpage/show/2917
Monday, March 29, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Discussion Questions for Museum Movement Techniques
Sydney's Questions:
Having been inspired by the chapter I was to create questions for, Chapter One, I am not going to ask questions in the textbook style way – sitting down, around a table –I am going to have the class move around the museum.
The things I might like my classmates to know is:
Favorite type of MMT
The positive effects of the MMTs.
And the negative effects of the MMTS, or the constraints of the techniques.
**These questions do not really come from the book, but is instead more interpretive.**
Martina's Questions:
1. In what ways do you think the Yager museum and or our public program might benefit from utilizing movement techniques?
2. Why do you think it is important for museum educators to use movement techniques?
3. Do you think movement techniques such as these could work in all museums or just a select few? Why or why not?
Having been inspired by the chapter I was to create questions for, Chapter One, I am not going to ask questions in the textbook style way – sitting down, around a table –I am going to have the class move around the museum.
The things I might like my classmates to know is:
Favorite type of MMT
The positive effects of the MMTs.
And the negative effects of the MMTS, or the constraints of the techniques.
**These questions do not really come from the book, but is instead more interpretive.**
Martina's Questions:
1. In what ways do you think the Yager museum and or our public program might benefit from utilizing movement techniques?
2. Why do you think it is important for museum educators to use movement techniques?
3. Do you think movement techniques such as these could work in all museums or just a select few? Why or why not?
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Resources for Upcoming March 23rd Class
Take a look at the website links listed.
Museum Movement Techniques:
http://www.museummovementtechniques.com/index.htm
Creative Techniques for museum teacher/facilitator led:
http://www.vtshome.org/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/adult_resources/creative_writing/index.html
http://rockhall.com/education/inside-the-classroom/toddler_rock/
Virtual Museum:
http://latino.si.edu/education/LVM_Main.htm
Museum Movement Techniques:
http://www.museummovementtechniques.com/index.htm
Creative Techniques for museum teacher/facilitator led:
http://www.vtshome.org/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/adult_resources/creative_writing/index.html
http://rockhall.com/education/inside-the-classroom/toddler_rock/
Virtual Museum:
http://latino.si.edu/education/LVM_Main.htm
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Multiple Intelligence Resource
Here is a great resource from our discussion: http://www.museumofplay.org/education_programs/multi_intel.html
Multiple Intelligence Test
As we discussed in class, here is a link to the Multiple Intelligence Test: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm
The New Guard of Curators Steps Up
The NY Times featured this article of interest about the "new" curators in the museum field:
THE mouth of a giant monster, its razor-sharp teeth glaring overhead and its tongue forming a long red carpet, ushers visitors into the Tim Burton retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Although the intentionally lighthearted chronicle of the filmmaker’s work received only mixed reviews when it opened in November, Mr. Burton’s fans don’t seem to care. More than 450,000 people have already attended the show, and by the time it closes on April 26, attendance is expected to exceed that of recent blockbusters like the museum’s “Van Gogh: The Colors of the Night” last year and “Dali: Painting and Film,” in 2008.
Visitors to the show are relatively young, somewhere in their 30s on average, which makes them a decade younger than usual for MoMA, recent surveys showed. And a surprising one-third of this audience had never stepped foot in the museum before.
“We’d never done anything like this,” said Rajendra Roy, the museum’s chief curator of film, who was one of the show’s organizers. “There’s always a learning curve. Would I have done things differently? I don’t think so.”
For a 37-year-old curator, Mr. Roy seems pretty cool about it all, considering that only a few years ago he started his professional life selling tickets at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Yet as museum directors have come to realize, younger minds attract younger audiences. And Mr. Roy is just one of a growing group of rising curatorial stars cutting quite a different figure from the age-old image of museum curator as a fusty academic. Read more here.
THE mouth of a giant monster, its razor-sharp teeth glaring overhead and its tongue forming a long red carpet, ushers visitors into the Tim Burton retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Although the intentionally lighthearted chronicle of the filmmaker’s work received only mixed reviews when it opened in November, Mr. Burton’s fans don’t seem to care. More than 450,000 people have already attended the show, and by the time it closes on April 26, attendance is expected to exceed that of recent blockbusters like the museum’s “Van Gogh: The Colors of the Night” last year and “Dali: Painting and Film,” in 2008.
Visitors to the show are relatively young, somewhere in their 30s on average, which makes them a decade younger than usual for MoMA, recent surveys showed. And a surprising one-third of this audience had never stepped foot in the museum before.
“We’d never done anything like this,” said Rajendra Roy, the museum’s chief curator of film, who was one of the show’s organizers. “There’s always a learning curve. Would I have done things differently? I don’t think so.”
For a 37-year-old curator, Mr. Roy seems pretty cool about it all, considering that only a few years ago he started his professional life selling tickets at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Yet as museum directors have come to realize, younger minds attract younger audiences. And Mr. Roy is just one of a growing group of rising curatorial stars cutting quite a different figure from the age-old image of museum curator as a fusty academic. Read more here.
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