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And for those going to AAM, the Registrars Committee and the Museum Heritage
Group is hosting a visit to MJT on Monday evening.
Janice Klein
Chair, RC-AAM
Registrar, The Field Museum
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At 08:50 PM 2/21/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>For this subject, I think an important museum to study is the Museum of
>Jurassic Technology in Culver City (near Los Angeles), California. The
>museum is also described in Lawrence Weschler's "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of
>Wonder" (1995).
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>Timothy K Winkle wrote:
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>> I am a graduate student in the Department of Popular Culture at
>> Bowling
>> Green State University. I am currently working on a project involving
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>> museum hoaxes (intentional or unrecognized) and the continued display
>> of
>> hoax objects in museums. I am interested in input from any and
>> everyone
>> on this topic, secifically:
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>> 1. Historical or current hoaxes in which museums have played a
>> significant
>> tole in their perpetration or dissemination. For example, the
>> Piltdown
>> Man hoax (possibly) perpetrated by curators of the British Museum.
>>
>> 2. Hoax objects that are displayed today as museum pieces. For
>> example,
>> the Cardiff Giant at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown.
>>
>> Particularly welcome would be any comments or information from museum
>> workers at such sites. I would very much like to know how such
>> objects
>> are labeled and interpretted, and how their status as frauds are
>> incorporated into the museum's overall purpose.
>>
>> I thank you in advance, TIM
>>
>> TImothy K. Winkle
>> Department of Popular Culture
>> Bowling Green State University
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