>Barbara Narendra wrote : >As I understand it, the problem was that the previously successful team >approach--curator+educator+designer--was abandoned and the scientific >content of the exhibit (Does outrigger canoe ring any bells?) was put under >the control of an exhibit developer. See John Terrell [the curator], >"Disneyland and the Future of Museum Anthropology," American >Anthropologist, vol. 93, no. 1, March 1991, p. 149-153. Thank you Barbara. As I said, it was a remembrance rather than legal testimony. My discussions with other curators at the time and the implications of the labels sent to me indicated this lack of satisfaction with the scholarly thesis. It is interesting that you note the "team approach" of the curator-educator-designer as being that which was disregarded. I remember the discussion with curators from LA and San Fran at the time focusing on the situation as resulting from the lack of curatorial guidance and that is why I remember it as not being an affirmation of the team theory. As museum budgets diminish, the idea of educators working with directors and board committees on exhibits, with curators only hired as part time consultants, has been discussed in my presence a number of times. I guess the "team approach" can have different implications to different people. Thanks for your citation. Paul Apodaca Bowers Museum Santa Ana, CA [log in to unmask]