Museum Studies:
Portals & General Resources
Museum Studies > Portals
American Association of Museums
Art Institute of Chicago Museum
- Science, Art & Technology
"...began as a year-long course offered by The Art Institute of Chicago to Chicago Public School science teachers interested in exploring the relationship between science and art within a museum setting... Teachers used the information provided to create written guides for museum visits with their students and lesson plans for in-class instruction. The program's overarching goal was to show science teachers that an art museum may be used as a visual library to augment and to enrich established high-school science curricula in chemistry, earth science, or physics."
Sections include: Intro to Science and Art ; Art and Astronomy ; The Chemistry and Physics of Light and Color ; Perception, Light, and Color ; Conservation: Light in the Making and Viewing of Art ; Careers in Science, Art, and Technology ; Lesson Plans ; Self-Guides ; Glossary.
AUMIS - Australian University Museums Information System - (dead link)
Conservation OLine (CoOL)
Resources for Conservation Professionals
"CoOL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials."
- Lexical and Classification Resources
"This page offers dictionaries, thesauri, classification schemes, and related matter primarily of use to those managing preservation libraries, imaging projects, etc."
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) (English or French)
Includes News ; Internet Resources ; General Document Repositories and a lot more.
Mouseia
"...the online resource centre for museologists and museum professionals. Mouseia, a "festival of the Muses," is the culmination of years of scholarship by leading international museologists, now made accessible through the potential of the online environment. Shaped by the vision of Professor Lynne Teather of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Toronto, Mouseia brings together traditional bibliographies of museum literature, and integrates new, multimedia resources, including online journals and discussions of innovations in the field. The result is both a research centre and a forum for the exchange of ideas: Mouseia will provide opportunities for museum professionals, academics, and communities to interact, discuss and develop concepts around heritage and the roles of museums as stewards of expressions of human identity, memory and creativity."
Museen : Museumsrecht, Kulturgutschutz, Denkmalschutz, Museum Law,
Cultural Property Protection (German or English)
"The purpose of this page, part of the Virtual Library Museums in Germany, is to link institutional and private internet offers referring to the protection of cultural heritage (or cultural property) and to the law (or legal issues) concerning museums, archives and libraries...The following list of German and international resources in the World Wide Web has the aim to demonstrate how the different institutions interact."
Museum Learning Collaborative
"...the MLC is assembling a comprehensive annotated literature database that will be an invaluable resource for museum professionals, museum studies students, and others interested in informal learning. In addition, the MLC is compiling a list of university course syllabi which deal with informal learning and learning in museums."
MuseumNet
UK Museums Knowledge Base
A user-friendly database of UK museums
Museums and the Information Age
By Suzzane Keene, Head of Collections Management, Science Museum, London.
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
"...interprets the collective knowledge of the Smithsonian and serves as a gateway to its educational resources. Through research, publishing, and staff development programs for the education and museum communities, the Center promotes the understanding and use of museums.
Smithsonian Exhibit
The Enola Gay Controversy
"How Do We Remember a War that We Won?"
"After about ten months of open, sustained controversy, the Smithsonian bowed to pressure, canceled the original exhibit, and replaced it with one less controversial. That action was both praised and scorned. And the whole episode continues to be a flash point among the indefatigable belligerents of the so-called 'culture wars'...Thus, the pages that follow enable users to experience the evolution of the Enola Gay controversy -- in some sense to relive it -- by reading through a chronological list of documents divided into five 'rounds.'"
By Edward J. Gallagher, Dept. of English, Lehigh University
Many Museum Studies Organizations have specialized Internet directories.
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| Created by: Mike Madin 1998 | Last updated: 07/04/2009