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This assignment asked you to write 5 short papers discussing the history of one object at different places and times during its life.
What is the object Journey?
100
This author stated that' The objects people see as special in their home point to different directions in time, revealing different aspects of the self that are important, depending on the person's age."
Who is Csikszentmihalyi?
100
Which assignment discusses the evolution of one object that you are close to?
What is the Object Journey?
100
Cameron discusses these two metaphors for the museum setting that speak to its purpose.
What are Temple vs Forum?
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This author wrote how to look at everything.
Who is Finn?
200
Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned to make murals that depict Indiana History. What famous US president was depicted in one of these murals?
Who is Abe Lincoln?
200
Ellen Goodman writes in Holiday traditions of an artifact that belonged to her grandmother. She states, "to have a holiday without this would be disrespectful to her memory".
What is her grandmother's China?
200
In Lightyears ahead of its time, Setoodeh discusses the life cycle of this toy from loved artifact to discarded thing.
Who is Andy from toy story?
200
his article discusses the elite notion of the museum and argues that instead of being out in the woods, it should be centrally located for accessibility to all.
What is The Gloom of the Museum?
200
This artist was known for his ready-mades, manufactured objects that the artist By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the object became art.
Who is Duchamp?
300
The Wylie House visit did not use labels to tell narratives, yet had stories embedded in artifacts. One object in the front hall had a rich presence that is the only living artifact passed down from the Wylies.
What is the cactus?
300
This exhibition at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures showed objects from life across the world. This exploration of cultural relationships can be related to the Destination Culture article.
What is the Life stage exhibit?
300
ccording to Petroski i his book The evolution of useful things, What makes a fork a fork?
What are its tines?
300
This is a term for a room in a museum that is set up to resemble a particular time and place in history.
What is a Period Room?
300
This is the artist that displays artifacts next to each other, like silver and slave shackles, to discuss the hidden curriculum of a museum.
Who is Fred Wilson?
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In the reading 'Bicycles for Afghanistan', Vonnegut uses this term to describe a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless. Examples of these, for him, the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows--and any nation, anytime, anywhere.
What is a granfalloon?
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In the Wylie letters, we read several from this husband to this wife that were signed "affectionately yours".
Who are Margaret and Andrew Wylie?
400
This artifact provides e a way to spend money, move it and promise it to somebody else emerged in the 1950's.
What is the credit card?
400
Sometimes this is chosen by the artist or the person who commissioned the painting and is never changed, but this is rare. Sometimes the subsequent owner might have chosen the it and it choice itself may be of historical interest. But generally the museums' curators deal with this sort of thing.
What are the frames?
400
This article began to indicate the ethical ramifications of putting animals, people and their artifacts on display to make them exotic.
What is destination Culture?
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This letter was written by Walker and starts "Beloved, A few days ago I went to see the little house on R Street where we were so happy". She goes on to discuss objects in the house and their personal meaning to her.
What is Letter to my young husband?
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In Shenk's “The Things We Carry: Seeking Appraisal at the Antiques Road show”, what object did this author take to get appraised?
What is a Remington-Rand Manual Typewriter with script was Hebrew?
500
This article discusses the things that children, teenagers, parents, and grandparents keep in their houses to discuss who they are.
What is "Why we need things"?
500
This type of museum has a power to "evoke history and put the visitor into direct contact with it" and make them feel comfortable in a familiar context according to Leftwich.
What are House museums?
500
This chapter discusses what's missing in the museum.
What is David Carr's What I saw in the museum