Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
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1. ASSIGNMENT
Topic : MUSEUM
Submitted to Submitted by
Jibi Teacher Julie.K.Joy
Candidate Code : 13350015
Natural Science
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1 Introduction 1
2 Aims and Objectives 2
3 Importance of Museum 3
4 Role of Museum 4
5 Important of Museum in biology science 5
6 Etymology 6
7 Purpose 7
8 Management 8
9 Exhibition Histories 9
10 Conclusion 10
11 National Museum 11
12 Reference 12
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Introduction
Museum is a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic or
cultural interest are stored and exhibited. They are institutions that collect, safeguard
and make accessible art facts and specimens, which they hold in trust for society. This
definition includes art galleries with collection of works of art as well as museums
with historical collection of objects museum has achieved a nationally approved
standard in management, collections care and delivery of information and visitor
services. Several types of museums are seen in our world, they are national museums,
local authority museums, university museums, historical museums etc. Most large
museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in
small cities, town and even the country side. The Louvre Museum in Paris (France)
one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. The Uttizi Gallery, the
most visited in Italy and one of the most important in the world.
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Aims and Objectives
The aim of the museum is to facilitate a process of development and
organisational change within museums and galleries that are committed to active
partnership with this communities. Museum will support and develop them to place
community needs, values and active collaboration at the core of museum and gallery
work, involve communities and individuals in decision making processes and ensure
that museums and galleries play on effective role in developing community skills.
To support museums and galleries through a process of organisational change,
through which they place collaborative work at the heart of thus organisations,
building suitable partnerships with communities and involving them in decision
making
To support collaborative and reflective approaches to skills development and
learning
To establish a network of organisations who participatory practice is exemplary
and inspiring
To gather, document, analyse and disseminate** compelling evidence of
positive impact and best practice in museums and galleries of different sizes
and types, as part of a wider strategy to achieve significant shifts in
participatory practice within the sector nationwide.
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Importance of Museums
Museums provide a unique interactive experience of getting up close to things
we usually see in books, newspapers or on the television. Seeing the Monalisa for
example is a totally different experience to seeing one of the millions of printed
versions; the perception you get of something from a second-hand source is often
completely different to the one you get when you see something with your own
eyes.
In terms of education, going to a museum can bring what is taught in schools to
life, by seeing artefacts or paintings for example. If children are learning about the
Remans for example and they go to an exhibition full of armous and weapons
dating from that period, they are more likely to find it interesting and want to learn
more about it. Museums can then be an extremely valuable source of creativity,
particularly organisations such as art galleries or photography exhibitions, as many
people find they are inspired and subsequently want to try such activities
themselves.
Museums are also a significant factor in attracting tourists to an area and can
therefore be instrumental in helping the local economy in terms of supplying a
passing tracle as well as offering local people employment.
Museums are also instrumental to research programmes in this country. For
many people undertaking research, museums provide an unrivalled wealth of
information and resources as well as archives, scholars and highly trained.
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Role of the Museum
Visiting a museum is often sterotyped as an activity confined to those going on
a school trip or member of the middle or upper classes. In reality however, a trip to
a museum can be enjoyed by all and can be both a pleasurable and educational
experience. The primary role of a museum is to be a source of education, whether
it be through showcasing collections of cultural products such as pieces of art,
telling the story of something.
Today, museums are more focused than ever on the promotion of a more
interactive, wide- reaching educational experience.
Museums have made their exhibitions more enjoyable for children by making
more interactive displays and introducing concepts such as quizzes or treasure
hunts to keep children amused. Research shows that children who are regularly
taken to museums are more likely to go to them in thus adult life and therefore
creating a positive perception of museums in young children can be extremely
important.
In our modern society, it has become necessary and indeed urgent for museum
to redefine their missions, their goal their functions and their strategies to reflect
the expectations.
7. Importance of Museum in biology science
Biological research museums have a mission similar to that all libraries, but
instead of preserving books, biological collections preserve individual organisms.
Collection grow continuously though activities of faculty, students and other
researches as well as by exchange with other museums. As they grow, collections
increase in value preserving samples of natural variation, documenting the
occurrence of specie in space and time, and providing a critical basis for our
understanding of species identity. Biological collections are also the source of
information regarding phytogenetic relationships, whether morphological or
genetic.
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Etymology
The English ‘Museum’ comes from the Latin word and is pluralized as
‘museums’ which denotes a place or temple dedicated to Muses (the ptron
devinilies in Greek mythology of the arts) and hence a building set apart for study
and the arts especially the Museum for philosophy and research at Alexandria by p
tolemy I Soter about 280 BCE. The first museum/ library is considered to be the
one of plate in Athens.
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Purpose
The purpose of modern museum is to collect, preserve, interpret and display
items of cultural, artistic or scientific significance for the education of the public.
The purpose can also depend on ones point of view. To a family looking for
entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, a trip to a local history museum or large city
art museum could be a fem, and enlightening way to spend the day. To city
leaders, a healthy museum community can be seen as a gauge of the economic
health of a city and a way to increase the sophistication of its inhabitants.
Museums are above all storehouses of knowledge.
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Management
The roles associated with the management a museum largely depends on the
size of the institution, but every museum has a hierarchy of governance with a
Board of Trustee serving at the top. The Director is next in command and works
with the Board to establish and fulfil the museums mission statement and to ensure
that the museum is accountable to the public. Together the Board and the Director
establish a good system of governance that is guided by various other documents
such as an institutional or strategic plan institutional code of ethics, bylaws, and
collections policy.
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Exhibitions histories
An exhibition history is a listing of exhibitions for an institution, artist or a
work of art. Exhibition histories generally include the name of the host institution,
the title of the exhibition and the opening and closing dates of the exhibition.
The following is a list of major institutions have complete have exhibition
histories.
Amon Cartee Museum, Fortworth, Texas (1961-Present)
Brooklyn Museum (1846-present)
The Art Institute of Chicago (1883-present)
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (1948-present)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (1901-present)
Dahesh Museum of Art, New York (1995-present)
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Conclusion
A museum is an importance that cares for collection of artefacts and other
objects of scientific artistic, cultural historical importance and makes them
available for public viewing Museums provide interactive experience of getting up
close to things we usually only see in books, newspaper or on the television. The
Louvre Museum in Paris (France) one of the largest and most famous museums in
the world. In terms of education going to a museum can bring what is taught in
Schools to life, by-seeing artifacts or paintings for example. Museum are also
significant factor in attracting tourists and also to instrumental to research
programs in this country.
