And for those going to AAM, the Registrars Committee and the Museum Heritage
Group is hosting a visit to MJT on Monday evening.

Janice Klein
Chair, RC-AAM
Registrar, The Field Museum
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At 08:50 PM 2/21/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>For this subject, I think an important museum to study is the Museum of
>Jurassic Technology in Culver City (near Los Angeles), California.  The
>museum is also described in Lawrence Weschler's "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of
>Wonder" (1995).
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>Timothy K Winkle wrote:
>
>> I am a graduate student in the Department of Popular Culture at
>> Bowling
>> Green State University.  I am currently working on a project involving
>>
>> museum hoaxes (intentional or unrecognized) and the continued display
>> of
>> hoax objects in museums.  I am interested in input from any and
>> everyone
>> on this topic, secifically:
>>
>> 1. Historical or current hoaxes in which museums have played a
>> significant
>> tole in their perpetration or dissemination.  For example, the
>> Piltdown
>> Man hoax (possibly) perpetrated by curators of the British Museum.
>>
>> 2. Hoax objects that are displayed today as museum pieces.  For
>> example,
>> the Cardiff Giant at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown.
>>
>> Particularly welcome would be any comments or information from museum
>> workers at such sites.  I would very much like to know how such
>> objects
>> are labeled and interpretted, and how their status as frauds are
>> incorporated into the museum's overall purpose.
>>
>> I thank you in advance, TIM
>>
>> TImothy K. Winkle
>> Department of Popular Culture
>> Bowling Green State University
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