Resultados para "The Museum" en Política y ciencias sociales

What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to “dumb down” their work? What internal changes are required? Based on a multi-year, Kress Foundation-sponsored study of ten innovative American and European collections based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field.

The Amsterdam History Museum houses some of the most famous Dutch Masters' paintings. One of the best ways to see Amsterdam is with a guided canal boat ride on its famous street-lined canals.

Over 100 years of automobile history are celebrated at Murphy's Car Museum in Oxnard, California. There are over 50 cars in the indoor museum that visitors can get close to and sometimes sit in.

Audio Journeys explores the Maya Music Museum in La Antigua, Guatemala, with the museum founder and director. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

In 1867 the Dominion of Canada was formed. In 1931 Canada became an independent nation within the Commonwealth. We are exploring Ottawa, Canada's Capital, in the Province of Ontario. Our exploration begins on Parliament Hill and ends across the Ottawa River at the Civilization Museum.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the National Currency Museum of Canada, where we find out about the history of money around the world.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the largest canal systems in the United States. The Erie Canal no longer flows through Syracuse, but along its former banks, the weigh station was restored as a museum.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores Quebec City, Quebec, in early February during its annual Winter Carnival - the largest winter carnival in the world. Before the Carnival begins on the weekend, we have time to find out about some of Quebec's history at the Museum of Civilization. Francois Tremblay, the director of exhibitions, meets us in the lobby of this very large, state-of-the-art, award-winning museum complex.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Soulsville USA (Memphis), where 800 singles, 300 albums and numerous movie music scores are detailed and displayed.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores the 200-year-old village of Potsdam, New York. The village is home to The Crane School of Music, the first school of its kind to teach teachers how to teach music.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International is on a road trip through the Southwest United. On Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona, still has the look and feel of a Wild West town. Holbrook, about 100 miles east of Flagstaff, was once the roughest, toughest, most lawless town of the Old West. We explore the Navajo County Courthouse Museum. Some people, including our guide, believe the 1898 courthouse is haunted.

Over the last few decades, governments have increasingly sought to reclaim indigenous artifacts from museums abroad. Yet inappropriate calls for repatriation should be resisted. Encyclopedic museums do more than house artifacts; they also spread cosmopolitan ideas.