Museum Collections
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This document discusses various ways museum collections and resources can be utilized to enhance humanities education. It provides examples of using museum images to illustrate concepts, teach particular forms, hook students into topics, and provide virtual tours. Archives are also highlighted as a way to bring history to life, such as through photographs, illustrations, and recordings from museums.
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- 1. Utilizing Museum Collections to Enhance the Humanities http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/handbook/hb118.html http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/meesterwerken http://www.louvre.fr/media/repository/ressources/sources/ illustration/atlas/x196image_59546_v2_m56577569830615660.jpg
- 2. Using Museum Images to Illustrate Ideas The British Museum:http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlight s.aspx The Sutton HooTreasures: “…love of beauty, joy in creation, perfection in craftsmanship [flourished] in the Dark Ages…” ~ Rupert Bruce-Mitford
- 3. Using Museum Images toTeach a Particular Form The Johnson Art Museum:http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/handbook/ hb118.html Vanitas Paintings: “Vanitas paintings…have their own internal logic… and are meant to challenge the intellect…”
- 4. Using Museum Images as a Hook to Interest Students in aTopic The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_dat abase/ The Puritans: How can you identify this man as a Puritan? What elements convey this?
- 5. VirtualTours The Dickens Museum: http://dickensmuseum.com/vtour/ What elements make this homeVictorian? The Peabody Essex Museum: http://www.pem.org/visit/yin_yu_tang.php What elements characterize Chinese homes?
- 6. Using Museum Archives to Bring History to Life The Smithsonian: http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb= true?_pageLabel=detail&negNum=2004-26275&action=detail TheVoting Machine (illustration) The Foundling Hospital Museum: http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/oralhistory.php Recordings of former residents
- 7. Prepared by Eileen Bach Concordia International School Shanghai C. 2010