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According to Schwarzer, who created America’s first museum habitat diorama, and where was it displayed?
Carl Akeley, Milwaukee Public Museum
100
What form of display of human subjects found its origins in the ethnographic villages of world’s fairs and international expositions?
The Life Group
100
Why are demographics insufficient to evaluate museum audiences?
Demographics will not reveal what groups value in their leisure activities.
100
What are "advance organizers"?
Something that orients visitors, enhances learning and engagement
100
How did your professor get his friend to stop sitting on a minimalist sculpture in a museum?
By showing him a label that corresponded to the sculpture.
200
What anthropologist was responsible for the creation of the American Museum of Natural History’s North Pacific Coast Hall displays?
Franz Boas, around 1900
200
What form of display did George Francis Dow originate in 1907 in Salem, Massachusetts?
Period Rooms
200
What are “discovery workshops” and why are they important?
They include family activities and other things that connect museums to the daily lives of visitors.
200
What do Falk and Dierking mean when they claim that “learning is situated”?
Learning is a dialog between an individual and the environment
200
What do you call those huge 360 paintings exhibited in a circular building?
A cyclorama or panorama
300
What 1976-1979 traveling exhibit “stands above all others in defining the museum blockbuster”?
The Treasures of King Tut
300
What innovations in museum display of fine art did Alfred Barr introduce?
Text and information panels; white walls with pictures hung horizontally, one at a time
300
What are the three audience segments that comprise current and potential museum visitors, and which of the six major attributes discussed above pertain to each group?
Frequent participants, occasional participants, non-participants
300
What are “enabling contexts” and what role do they perform in museum learning?
Events after visiting museums that reinforce learning in museums
300
Provide two names for a very long painting that is displayed by rolling it from one spool to another in front of an audience.
A moving panorama, or "moving pictures"
400
Schwarzer credits four individuals influenced by Bauhaus design precepts with leading the reshaping of American museum exhibition design. Who were they?
Drier, Dorner, Austin, Barr
400
What is the name of the artistic activity that became prominent in the 1990s and that Schwarzer describes as “dissecting and manipulating museums and exhibition techniques"? Your professor presented several examples of this kind of work to you, too.
Institutional Criticism
400
What are some types of public programs that can help museums attract a wider audience?
Children's activities, outdoor experiences, playing musical instruments, arts and crafts, things like that...
400
According to Falk and Dierking, what is the Contextual Model of Learning?
It provides a holistic picture of learning and accommodates the myriad specifics and details that give richness and authenticity to the learning process.
400
What is the name of the place that uses display techniques of natural history museums to lend credibility to displays of biblical archaeology.
The Creation Museum
500
What 1961 exhibit, which Schwarzer describes as “perhaps America’s first participatory science exhibit,” was created be husband-and-wife team Ray and Charles Eames for the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles?
Mathematica
500
What artists curated the 1992 Maryland Historical Society exhibit Mining the Museum?
Fred Wilson
500
What are the six major attributes underlying peoples’ choices regarding how they use their leisure time?
1. social interaction, 2. doing something worthwhile, 3. feeling comfortable, 4. challenge of a new experience, 5. opportunity to learn, 6. active participation
500
What are the eight key factors that are fundamental to museum learning experiences?
1. motivation and expectations, 2. prior knowledge, 3. choice, 4. socio-cultural mediation, 5. facilitated mediation, 6. advance organizers, 7. design, 8. reinforcing events and experiences
500
What is the significance of minimal art for museums?
Minimal art demonstrates that art is dependent on museums and demonstrates the cultural power of museums. Stuff like that.
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