Natural History Museums, past, present and future. Science Museums and the rise of the interactive by Georgina Walker https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am Tuesday 10 am Seminar en-us 2020-04-16 06:08:02 UTC 2025-11-30 17:08:40 UTC hello@padlet.com GROUP 3: Bunjilaka at Melbourne Museum walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/514896151 Virtual Exhibition https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.8032229,144.9722905,2a,19.3y,335.26h,80.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXAVSgfoJ6eVV4_jqGlMUyg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 ]]> 2020-04-19 03:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/514896151 Group 2: Smithsonian National Museum walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175817270 2021-02-08 09:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175817270 Group 2: NEMO Science Museum walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175817807 2021-02-08 09:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175817807 Group 4: American Museum of Natural History walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175819157 2021-02-08 09:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175819157 GROUP 2: Do natural history/science museums appeal equally to all age groups? Is this an issue? walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175821610 Use the Smithsonian National Museum and NEMO Science Museum as case study examples]]> 2021-02-08 09:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175821610 GROUP 3: How different are today's natural history museums from previous decades? walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175821875 Use the Melbourne Museum's First Peoples Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre as case study example]]> 2021-02-08 09:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175821875 GROUP 4: What different techniques are used by natural history museums to communicate complex understandings? - list examples, discuss their relative effectiveness walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175822144 Use the American Museum of Natural History as case study example]]> 2021-02-08 09:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1175822144 GROUP 1: To what extent have natural history/science museums been challenged by recent developments in the internet/media/entertainment/zoos etc - do we still need natural history museums? walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356069202
Use the Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks as case study examples]]> 2021-03-26 05:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356069202 Group 1 - MELBOURNE MUSEUM & SCIENCEWORKS walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356069460 https://museumsvictoria.com.au/scienceworks/at-home/ ]]> 2021-03-26 05:15:35 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356069460 Consider some of the current issues relating to the display and communication of object/ideas in Natural History and Science Museums walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356077516
  • To what degree should museums seek to teach primarily through 'neutral' didactic displays, or should they use everything at their command to make their point, including all the rhetorical devices of entertainment and spectacle?
  • Have dioramas gone the way of the dodo? Or is there a case to be made for their revival?
  • To what degree should museums seek to present objects/information as a completed body of knowledge, or, rather, as an ongoing process that is always provisional and never complete? If our current sensibilities incline us more towards the latter, then how can museums actually achieve this in a way that visitors can understand?
  • If museums of these kinds are not necessarily all about objects, then what are they about? And how would they differ then fundamentally from other forms of communication media/entertainment?
  • Why should people feel the need to go to natural history museums to study animals - when they might just as well go to a zoo to study living animals instead?
  • Is the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris a space that "has impressed with its use of subliminal context setting to illuminate the unlost magic of merely cleaned up and re-dusted collection items" (Hicks 2001).
  • What criteria should we use to judge the success or failure of a science museum or exhibition?


    • ]]>     2021-03-26 05:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356077516     End of the Wild: Museum's long-running taxidermy exhibition to close walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356095398 The Age Bianca Hall
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    ]]>     2021-03-26 05:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356095398     A WILD chapter in the museum story to close after 11 years walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356097379 Melbourne Museum 14 JANUARY 2021]]> 2021-03-26 05:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356097379 Museums Victoria acquires the world’s most complete and most finely preserved Triceratops walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356097622 Melbourne Museum 02 DECEMBER 2020]]> 2021-03-26 05:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1356097622 Our History - Treasures - Museums Victoria, 2004 walker_g https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1365987664 2021-03-29 22:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1365987664 Museum of Anthropology Vancouver https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1366016617 Out of all the anthropological/natural history museums I've been to this was by far the most respectful, I would suggest having a look at their way of exhibiting indigenous objects]]> 2021-03-29 23:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/walker_g/AHIS90005_nat_hist_mus_tues10am/wish/1366016617