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This study was an exploration into how seniors who participate in art workshops at the senior center experienced and made sense of their art museum visitations. In light of the rapidly increasing aging population in most countries around...
There are several motivating and satisfying factors that affect volunteer retention. Organizations need to know what these factors are in order to make the volunteer’s role more satisfying and therefore improve rates of retention. The...
Research indicates that there is a disconnect between public perception of the interior design profession and the actualities of the profession. This disconnect has influenced, and is influenced by, the two predominate factors. The first...
Many museums have been critically characterized as elitist institutions that offer few inclusive services to meet the needs and interests of marginalized populations and communities (Hill, 2016; Sandell & Nightingale, 2013). Some museums...
Internships have become a vital part of museum training, the premier way to gain field experience, and a service often required of perspective museum professionals (Danilov, 1994). One of the museum field's top organizations AAM (1978)...
This qualitative, soft-systems case study examined the digital strategy development process at a large Midwest art museum in the United States. The study explored the process of working together to create the strategy, the role of...
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways graduate students' interpretive lenses manifested in reflective storytelling of their collaborative object-based learning (OBL) experiences with Andean textiles in the John and Mary...
As museums continue to shift from being object-centered to visitor-centered, they also need to reconsider their exhibition development practices to become more relevant to their communities. In alignment with this premise, this double...
The Socially Inclusive Role of Curatorial Voice: A Qualitative Comparative Study of the Use of Gatekeeping Mechanisms and the Co-creation of Identity in Museums
Museums, and museum professionals, engage in a significant role within society. This dissertation is a qualitative exploratory study of the ways in which museum professionals promote or hinder the social inclusivity of museums through...
Increasingly scholarship reveals art museums, their exhibitions, and collections, are instrumental in shaping visitors' larger social and cultural values (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000; Luke, 2002; Sandell, 2002) and identity (Leong, 2005;...
As part of their inherent work, museum personnel (both staff and volunteers) in almost every role, across every museum type, size, and subject communicate complex, interpreted, shared, disputed, communal, fallible, changing, and plural...
Displays of dinosaurs have become a staple of modern natural history museums, but these did not emerge until the turn of the twentieth century. Through the work of Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in this field (despite...
Steven Conn recently argued that as museums change from warehouses of artifacts focused on public instruction to a different model of education by engagement, their emphasis on objects will become less necessary. This dissertation...
This dissertation project, “Museums of the Mind: The Ekphrastic Imagination in the African American Literary Tradition, ” at its core is a project of redress and reclamation that seeks to uncover the connection between the non-inclusive...
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