Who's Who in History
Founder of the first public museum in the United States, according to the film 100 Years of Museums in America
Who is Charles Wilson Peale?
This landmark year marked the establishment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
What is 1870?
The first public natural history museum established in England at Oxford University in 1683
What is the Ashmolean Museum?
A temple dedicated to the muses
What is a museum?
The term used to describe a specialized form of the history museum: an encompassing view of a landscape or historic event
What is a panorama (or cyclorama)?
Founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History
Who is Margaret Taylor-Burroughs?
A term used to describe the reduction of a museum's collections by sale, auction, or trade with other museums
What is deaccession?
A term used to describe museum displays of stuffed animals in natural settings with backdrops
What is a diorama?
A German Cabinet of Curiosity or Wonder
What is a Wunderkammer?
Examples of U.S. outdoor museums mentioned in your text include Greenfield Village, Plimoth Plantation, and _________________
What is Williamsburg?
The founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution
Who is James Smithson?
A term used to refer to large, popular, money-making showcase exhibitions
What is a blockbuster exhibition?
The first ethnographic museum in Europe
What is the National Museum of Ethnology?
Museum professional Nina Simon coined this term to reflect the collaborative social and cocreative opportunities that museums offer to their publics (hint: this one is actually TWO words)
What is the participatory museum?
The first historic house established in the U.S.
What is the Jean Hasbrouck House (George Washington's headquarters)?
Author of The Gloom of the Museum
Who is John Cotton Dana?
Ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and polar bear skins, oh my! This early European collector could not resist these curiosities
Who is Jean de France?
Home of "Sue"
What is the Field Museum of Natural History?
The Greek equivalent of "museum"
What is mouseion?
The National Park Service (NPS), created in 1916 as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, brought the federal government fully into the history museum and historic preservation movement with the passage of this act in 1935
What is the Historic Sites Act?
The anthropologist, whose work affected the development of anthropology museums within the 20th century, who wrote "The value of the museum as a resort for popular entertainment must not be underrated...that counteracts the influence of the saloon and of the race-track is of great importance."
Who is Franz Boas?
A proponent of "art for art's sake," this museum leader insisted that art museums differed from science and history museums in that their collections exist to allow their viewers to experience beauty rather than convey information
Who is Benjamin Ives Gilman?
This early publication provided schematics for organizing collections, reflecting the growing "scientific" focus on identifying and classifying objects in the early 18th century
What is Museographia?
A long, grand hall lit from the side (in Italian)
What is a galleria?
The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 established the National Register of Historic Places and _______________
What is the Advisory Council on Historic Places?