Carl Akeley’s revolution in exhibit design at the Milwaukee Public Museum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary David Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Exhibit Design ◽  
Public Museum

William Smyth (1838–1913), a commercial taxidermist of Dunedin, New Zealand

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosi Crane ◽  
B. J. GILL
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Professional Interaction ◽  
New Zealand Birds ◽  
Public Museum

William Smyth, unable to get work in a New Zealand museum, ran a commercial taxidermy business at Caversham, Dunedin, from about 1873 to 1911 or 1912. His two decades of correspondence with Thomas Frederic Cheeseman at the Auckland Museum provide a case study of Smyth's professional interaction with one of New Zealand's main museums. We have used this and other sources to paint a picture of Smyth's activities and achievements during a time when there was great interest in New Zealand birds but few local taxidermists to preserve their bodies. Besides the Auckland Museum, Smyth supplied specimens to various people with museum connections, including Georg Thilenius (Germany) and Walter Lawry Buller (New Zealand). Smyth was probably self-taught, and his standards of preparation and labelling were variable, but he left a legacy for the historical documentation of New Zealand ornithology by the large number of his bird specimens that now reside in public museum collections in New Zealand and elsewhere.

Using survey questions to identify and learn more about those who exhibit design thinking traits

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 92-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqualyn Blizzard ◽  
Leidy Klotz ◽  
Geoff Potvin ◽  
Zahra Hazari ◽  
Jennifer Cribbs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Exhibit Design ◽  
Survey Questions

scholarly journals Legislative regulation of museums activity in the Second Rzechpospolita Polska

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
Nataliia Zakharchyn
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
State Council ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legislative Proposal ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Public Museums ◽  
Draft Bill ◽  
And Control ◽  
Law Making ◽  
Public Museum

The article considers the creation of the legislative basis regarding the museums’ activity in interwar (1918-1939) Poland. Temporary organization of common government authorities in 1918 suggested subordination of museums of interwar Poland to the Ministry of religion andpopular education. It also describes changes in subordination of the museums and some features of law-making process. In April 1918, the Department of Art of the Ministry processed and offered the first project of temporary law on museums. According to the legislative proposal, state politics in the museum industry had to be implementedusing the special museum abstract within Department of Art. In the draft, there were a few types of museum identified: the main ones (national) and regional, educational and special. It was necessary to legislate on determining andidentifying main directions of the activity, to organizationally form the framework of their functioning, for the sake of museum professional work activization, controlling their activity, help with creation of new collections and support of some old ones. It is stated that his fact was understood by the representatives of the organizations that were either connected to museum industry or played a catalytic role in museum reforms in the interwar period, for instance, The Union of Museums of Poland.It was the Union that the draft law “Onthe trusteeship for the public museums” was prepared by. Apart from the draft law, the project of the implementing regulation to the bill regarding establishment and activity of the Museum State Council was adopted. In the article, the process of establishing the draft law is considered. The article reflects the representation of modified law “On the trusteeship for the public museums” in the Parliament of Second Rzechpospolita Polska. In the parliament, the draft bill was considered as a framework, which determines the concept of a public museum. According to the bill, Minister of religion and education implemented the trusteeship and control of the activity of the public museums and approved theirstatutes. The articlealso reviews the aims and tasks of the adopted law and further implementing regulations, particularly, on the establishment of Museum State Council.

scholarly journals Pares de vasijas gemelas policromadas con figuras pintadas del área maya

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. De Borhegyi ◽  
Lee A. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Public Museum

Aunque las vasijas gemelas policromadas con figuras pintadas son comunes en las tumbas y ofrendas del área de cultura andina, son muy raras en Mesoamérica. Por esta razón, el par de vasijas gemelas policromadas con figuras pintadas de la colección del Milwaukee Public Museum, es de notable interés. Como las de la costa sur del Perú (ver figs. la y 1b), las vasijas gemelas policromadas del área Maya no están hechas en molde. Parecen representar el claro intento del artesano de producir un par gemelo.

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