ISBN:
9781789201239
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
334 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Museums and Collections 11
Keywords:
Museum Ethnography, Smithsonian, Natural History, National Museum of Natural History, Deep Time Exhibit, Curation
Abstract:
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsoniańs National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world́s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations and Table -- Foreward -- Jennifer Shannon -- Prologue: Fieldnotes from the Badlands -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology A: Lists of Relevant Leadership -- Chronology B: Geologic Time Scale -- Chronology C: Fossil Exhibits Timeline -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Increase and Diffusion: Early Fossil Exhibits and a History of Institutional Culture -- Chapter 2. Group Dynamics: Exhibit Meetings and Expertise -- Chapter 3. Group Dynamics: The Roots of Team Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 4. Content Development: Debates about Interconnected Processes and Static Things -- Chapter 5. Content Development: The Roots of Interpretive Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 6. Diffusion and Increase: Shifts in Institutional Culture from Modernization to Now -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Coda: The Natiońs T-rex -- Appendix A: Consent Form -- Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires -- Sample Team Interview Questionnaire -- Sample Oral History Interview Questionnaire -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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