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. On Sun, 25 Sep 1994 14:30:19 -0700, Kevin Coffee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>On Sat, 24 Sep 1994, Paul Apodaca wrote: > >>The "team approach" has also had a number of failures that are important to >>consider. The most notable was the debacle at the Field Museum wherein the >>"team" so fouled the curatorial approach that curators resigned and wall >>labels were put up disavowing the exhibit. I believe Museum News carried >>articles about that situation.... > >This statement is unsubstantiated. > >Could you identify when this incident happened? The exhibition? The >curator(s) who resigned? The labels you allude to? The issues of Museum >News that you say reported on this or your source for this information? > >Kevin Coffee >Manager of Exhibitions >American Museum of Natural History >[log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Barbara Narendra. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++