OK, you're saying that we should overlook incorrect statements, willful or
not, for the sake of promoting the museum, or in this case, the offer of
the teaching position?  I wasn't saying that the present program is
dishonest in its representation of itself; who knows, maybe everyone there
had forgotten all about their predecessors. And, my understanding of the
job market is that pointing out such mistakes will do nothing to impede the
many applications that will be directed to Ms Ellis and the program.
        Adrienne DeAngelis


>While I don't doubt for a second the correctness of Adrienne's assertion,
>and there are few topics about which I know less than the history of museum
>education in the San Francisco Bay Area, I can't help but wonder if there is
>any industry or profession that has less business than the museum field to
>be pointing out the inaccuracies, ambiguities, or logic of the superlative
>assertions of another profession's promotional literature.
>
>Do we really want to pull on that thread? : )
>
>
>--
>Matthew White
>Director of Museums
>Mount Washington Observatory
>www.mountwashington.org
>
>
>
>
>Adrienne DeAngelis Wrote:
>
>> Hello--
>> A small historical note here:  SFSU was certainly not the "first
>> educational
>> institution in the San Francisco Bay area to offer museology courses": that
>> honor goes to the long-closed Lone Mountain College (formerly San Francisco
>> College for Women), which had an M.A. program in museum studies.  The
>> program worked closely with a number of museums in the area and had a very
>> good reputation.  The college closed in about 1978.
>>
>> Adrienne DeAngelis
>
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