Lab Museum Design & Interpretation

“United we stand, divided we fall.”

Museum Homepages that I liked:

http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm

    -extended menu format

    -rotating gallery

http://www.africanamericanmuseum.org/

    -scrolling text -- good for quotes

http://roerich.org/museum.html?mid=about_en

    -NICE LAYOUT!!

Ok, one of the limitations of Flickr...you can't put more than 200 photos in storage. Now, those groups that uploaded prior to the archaeology group have no way to access their images.

....any ideas how to fix it?  

Ok...

What did you like? On the centennial site, We liked the videos, and the photographs, aka the visual resources. Most people are visual learners, we are naturally drawn to these sources. It also added an interactive element to the site. The student website made a similar use of the interactive element through their inclusion of audio sources. In terms of the physical exhibit, we liked the buildings by decade, from a historic aspect. We also liked how Mason and Randolph are referred to as the "Golden Horseshoe." 

After our discussion in class today, I remembered reading this article back in August. It is not immediately relevant, but I think the authors does say something important regarding the meaning of the myth.  They say, "As a term, myth is much misunderstood; hearing it, many people take the word to mean "lie," when in fact a myth is a story, a narrative, that explains individual and national realities—how a person or a country came to be, why certain things happen in the course of a life or of history, and what fate may have in store for us. Myths are a peculiar hybrid of truth and falsehood, resentments and ambitions, dreams and dread." Myth does have a grain of truth.

Follows the evolution of the Frontier in Virginia....includes Alexander Spotswood!!

Alexander Spotswood

"The Rappahannock River valley above the fall line was settled in a different way than the James. The largest role was played not by a family like the Randolphs, but by a single individual, Alexander Spotswood. As lieutenant governor of Virginia (the governor drew a large salary but never left England), Spotswood brought German miners to excavate iron ore found on his vast holdings in the Rappahannock River basin. In 1714 they founded Germanna. Spotsylvania County was organized in 1720, and by 1727 settlement nearly had reached the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Germanna within the Frontier Myth: A Tale of Myth versus Reality

By Kati Singel, Nathan Smith, Betsy Flaig and Trillian Hosticka

“Undubbed by king, yet knights are we,

To sacred trust beholden;

And our insignia shall be,

http://americanimage.unm.edu/clip?id=120

--Ingenious (http://www.ingenious.org.uk/) -  Bringing  together images, articles and contributions for debate from the archives of the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, the National Railway Museum, the Science & Society Picture Library and the Science Museum Library, this website offers a mash-up of the resources of all these museums together. Although it is not your typical mash-up, it shows the concept of collaboration towards a final product that allows users to more efficiently access these museums and their resources through a single site.