Week 10: WEDNESDAY 5.15pm by David https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm National Museums: the National Museum of Australia/Shanghai Museum/National Museum of China, Beijing en-us 2018-03-22 21:40:08 UTC 2019-05-15 08:37:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png GROUP 1 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/359813919 Ø  What should be the key features and roles of the contemporary national museum?

Ø  How should these specific roles be reflected in the nature of its collections/programs? (e.g. specific programs/areas/exhibitions)
]]> 2019-05-14 09:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/359813919 GROUP 2 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/359814096 Ø  How do national museums differ/relate to other kinds of museums – e.g. state/regional/other national museums/galleries – and how have they changed over time?]]> 2019-05-14 09:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/359814096 GROUP 3 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/359814311 Ø  How can museums represent national ‘identity’? What is the best way to express this in a museum? And to what extent is it possible, for example, to tackle contentious or political issues?]]> 2019-05-14 09:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/359814311 MacDonald, 2003: “A crucial question for museums today concerns their role in a world in which nation-statist identities are being challenged. Are they too inextricably entangled in ‘old’ forms of identity to be able to express ‘new’ ones?” walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/360151179 Can you think of any museums/exhibitions that are actually grappling with this question?]]> 2019-05-15 00:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/360151179 GROUP 4 walker_g https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/360151531
Imagine that you have international friends coming to visit you in your home country - your have planned to take them to your local national museum as a means of filling them in on your country's national history/identity - how would you do this in the museum? What things would you highlight? Is the museum helpful - or not - in informing your friends about your country's history/identity?

[Note - of course you may feel free to critique the basis of this question - e.g. whose 'country' are we speaking of? Do you need to be 'Australian' or 'Chinese' to understand the essence of that country's national museum? etc....]]]> 2019-05-15 00:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/challisd/AHIS90005_2018_Wk10_Wed_515pm/wish/360151531