Lab Museum Design & Interpretation

• March 22nd - Kerry Barile will be joining us to talk about her research at Germanna
• March 20th -Status Report/Schedule/Technology Link
• March 10th - Working Exhibit title: "Germanna - Myth and Mystery on the Virginia Frontier"
• February 12th - Working Bibliography Link. & 2/13
• February 1st - Notes for Learning from Museums discussion on 2/1
• January 30th - Notes for Museum Experience discussion on 1/30
• January 23rd - Museum Trip
• January 18th - Class notes from discussion on Berger
• January 18th - Berger's "Ways of Seeing" Discussion Questions
• January 16th - Wikified Syllabus
• January 16th - Interactive Course Calendar
• January 16th - del.icio.us Tutorial

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This upper-level lab course offers a unique introduction to the world of the contemporary museum. Recent issues in the museum world center around emerging technologies that facilitate new ways of archiving, searching, and presenting information as well as allowing new possibilities for sharing, learning, and socializing in relationship to this information. Students will spend the first several weeks of class examining some of the issues at the heart of the “Museum Experience,” i.e., its mission as a self-paced, sociable form of teaching, learning, and experiencing information. Together, we will explore both the theoretical and practical side (often a false dichotomy) of virtual exhibit production, working collaboratively to design and produce a series of on-line exhibits. See more course details in the syllabus.