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100
Where is the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum?
Bilbao, Spain
100
To what institution did American multi-millionaire J. P. Morgan bequeath his collection?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
100
According to Schwarzer, who created America’s first museum habitat diorama, and where was it displayed?
Carl Akeley, Milwaukee Public Museum
100
What are Bragg Boxes?
Kits that contain educational materials on museum collections, displays, etc.
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 justification did the French authorities offer for the confiscation of Italian paintings during Napoleon’s campaign of 1796-1797?
Conservation and restoration
200
What was the name of the 1913 New York exhibition that Schwarzer describes as “the first large-scale public showing of Modern Art in the U.S.”?
The Armory Show
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 early twentieth-century museologist’s study, published in Scientific Monthly in 1916, served as a precursor to the visitor studies of the 1980s?
Benjamin Gillman
200
What do you call those huge 360 paintings exhibited in a circular building?
A cyclorama or panorama
300
What do museums such as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, the Wing Luke Asian Museum and the El Museo del Bario have in common?
Subject matter is more inclusive and diverse so as to appeal to a more diverse audience.
300
What are UNESCO and ICOM, what functions do they serve, and when were they founded?
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; International Council of Museums. 1946.
300
What are “enabling contexts” and what role do they perform in museum learning?
Events after visiting museums that reinforce learning in museums
300
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several scandals arose over National Endowment for the Arts funding of controversial art exhibitions. Name two of those exhibitions and explain why were they so controversial?
West as America, Enola Gay, others......
300
One architect had all his teeth pulled in order to win the opportunity to design a museum. Who was the architect and which museum did he design?
Frank Lloyd Wright; Guggenheim, NYC
400
Where and when was America's first museum formed
Charleston, SC in 1773
400
What particular types of natural history collections have, according to Schwarzer, served as “lightning rods in the controversy over evolution” in recent years and why have they been seen as controversial to some?
Dinosaur collections; contradict biblical accounts of creation.
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
How does Rand describe the importance of socializing in museums?
Visitors go to museums for a social outing with friends and family. They expect to talk, interact, and share the experience.
400
Nineteenth-century American cultural elites felt inferior to their European counterparts because America lacked a similar material cultural history. What did Americans use to try to match European cultural treasures?
National parks were created in which natural wonders are exhibited to the public.
500
Who founded the Mouseion of Alexandria?
Ptolemy Soter
500
Alexander explains that “leaders of the historic preservation movement agree that its great future growth lies not in the museum field.” Where does it lie?
Historic Districts, such as Charleston, SC and New Orleans, LA
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 are the four categories of cultural items covered by NAGPRA?
1) Human remains, 2) funerary objects, 3) sacred objects, 4) cultural patrimony
500
What is the name for the group that: 1) lobbies for tax cuts that result in funding reductions to museums, and then 2) offers to fund museums affected by #1 above, but does so with conditions that control activities of museums, such as exhibitions.
The donor class.