Our new director has a similar vision of creating a feeling of "home"
within our Whaling Museum. To help facilitate this idea, tonight we're
having our fist ever "Jammy Gam."
Our first overnighter for children will include a concert with seafaring
readings, a scavenger hunt, and a "whale sighting," where will introduce
our new mascot, Clara the Whale (some of you might find this of
interest, because I believe about a month ago someone posted a question
about mascots in museums). Indeed, it seems there is a big push for
learning by experience.
Unfortunately for me, to contribute to this experience, I volunteered to
work the graveyard "night watch" shift. :)
-Jeff
Jeffrey S. Bowen
Assistant Membership Coordinator
Nantucket Historical Association
P.O. Box 1016
Nantucket, MA 02554
Phone: 508-228-1894 x 116
Fax: 508-228-5618
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From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Micah Zender
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:30 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] "it all begins with what we do here creatively."
An interesting article about the NYC Opera this morning on the USA Today
site. The new
director of the Opera seems to get the fact that catering the Opera to
the publics
interests, and not just that of his current patrons will make accessible
something that has
for a long time been regarded as entertainment for the eliete.
I see interesting parallels within the museum world in the problems that
he's addressing.
As museums have often removed themselves from the general public in
order to hold
themselves more in line with acadamia, and high-art, rather than a
source of cultural
entertainment. (generalizing)
I'm not looking to start a flame war - quite the opposite. Anyone have
any ideas on what
sort of strategy they think might work for moving a museum more into
this light? Where
the museum doesn't become the next theme park, or more simply, to make a
museum
feel like a place they 'want' to be in. More like a home than a school?
As our culture shifts back towards being an Oral society, and not a
Literate scociety the
culture of learning, and interaction is going to take a huge leap away
from the 'studious'
museums, and more towards an 'experience.' Something that gives them
fuel for
communication. The days of looking things up in encyclopedias, are to be
replaced by
google searches and Wikipedia. What parallels can be drawn in the
museum?
here's the link.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2006-10-05-metropolitan-oper
a_x.htm
Always poking the fire! :)
Micah
Micah Zender
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