I love the film made by the Science Museum of Minnesota, Journey: Museums and 
Community Collaboration, about what they did with a controversial exhibit about 
Columbus that they had rented, and decided not to cancel, even after major 
protests of the exhibit in Florida, where it originated. What they did was much 
smarter--they recontexualized the whole exhibit within another exhibit about 
the native people of the Americas, and wrote new labels that they added (they 
didn't remove the original labels) to each exhibit section. Museum News covered 
the story, probably 1993.

Therese Quinn

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> > Hello all,
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> > I have two separate and slightly related questions.  I have been
> > teaching an introduction to museums course for the past three years.
> > One of the assignments I have students do is research and present on
> > a Controversial Exhibit or an ethical dilemma.  This works well when
> > my enrollment is down, but the course is gaining in popularity and
> > I'm running out of controversial exhibits.  I'm wondering what
> > exhibits members of the list could suggest.  They are covering "Enola
> > Gay", "Sensation", and "Old Glory, the American Flag in Contemporary
> > Art" as well as some controversial exhibit topics, such as sex,
> > Mapplethorpe, and displaying nudes.  What other exhibits come to mind?
> >
> > Second, I am looking for suggestions for museum videos.  Not videos
> > with museums, or videos by museums about their collections/exhibits,
> > but videos about a museum.  I have one from The Heard Museum, which
> > is great, and I have some recordings from the PBS series "Great
> > Museums" (some episodes are helpful, others not so much).  Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Keni Sturgeon
> > Jensen Arctic Museum
> > Western Oregon University
> > Monmouth, OR 97361
> >
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