Post Office Museum

Museums serve as a way to connect with the public on a large scale, and the knowledge held within exhibits can be a fruitful experience for those who choose to visit these institutions. Experiencing all that a museum has to offer, no matter how well intentioned, can at times be confusing and overwhelming to the individuals visiting the site. The Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian dedicates itself to Native Americans in North and South America, and worked tirelessly with varying tribes to create a new standard. Some visitors and scholars found their work to be successful in design and approach while others found it to be lacking in execution. This institution does not approach Native American history in a familiar fashion; however it does cover an expansive period of time, and produces a great amount of detail while generating powerful emotions.

Museums have long served a purpose as cultural staples. For every museum, big and small, careful consideration is used in selecting its contents. When securing new items for a museum, it is most important to consider public appeal, educational value, and cost-effectiveness.

The museum focuses on teaching and making visitors aware of the local culture that once was. Its main exhibits are farming tools and items you would see and use on a working

The 22,000 square-foot exhibition space contains more than 20 galleries. This museum showcases over 30,000 artifacts. The exhibitions are set up as a time traveling experience that takes visitors across hundreds of years and across the globe. The journey begins in Africa, the cradle of human life and continues on to the slave trade, and the contribution to African culture. In the end, the journey discloses with remarkable triumphs in medicine,

The museum displays a vast array of items donated by locals that depicted life in the late 19th and 20th century.

Museum of Fine Arts, a government-funded museum that houses a collection of 19th and 20th

The fifth area of the exhibit is called winter lodge. This shows how the elders of the Anishinabe have stories that have been told and songs that have been composed about how reliable they are. Families of the Anishinabek had to repair and forge new tools for hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering crops, and other activities. In the Ziibiwing center I saw some stone weapons and tools displayed in a protected

It was not only the new ideas of what made the settlement house a success. Addams and her colleagues lived among the poor in the settlement houses. It was a way to fully understand how the other half lives, learn from them by experiencing how they live in the communities. Addams visited Toynbee Hall which taught her to discover the life of the poor and have a first hand account and understand the daily activity. (Addams, pg.78) The nursery provided care to the children while parents were working and poor women, who are dealing with unsupportive husbands. (Addams, pg.111) With the safety of the children, factory condition were unsafe for children to be working there. There was one boy that was injured from a machine in a factory , which led to his death. The factories acted in such carelessness as they replaced the child with another worker. Illinois State Bureau of Labor was investigated the child labor in the factories. The Factory Laws of Illinois regulated the sanitary conditions of sweatshops and fixing the age to begin working at 14(Addams, pg. 123). The Juvenile Protective Association was created to protect the children in the city and improve the conditions affecting their lives.The association communicated with other associations to stop the sale of liquor and tobacco to minors. (pg. 168) In public health measures, the workers of the house created a small incinerator to reduce the garbage problem in the city. An investigation began to garbage collection as it was suspected that buildup of garbage led to the rising death rates (Addams,

They display vary from actual replications of stores, the wildlife that can be found here, and the Native American artifacts that were found in this city. Most of the exhibits are pleasing to look at and well organized. They did a great job with making the replica store displays interactive with getting to press the button to hear the telling of what is being viewed and getting to learn more about this area from history. Some areas, though, are more cluttered and hsve quite a lot to try and take in all at once. An example of this is the area with the war memorabilia. In the display case there is a lot of objects such as photos or items like canteens and clothing items all lumped together. It is neat to look at and learn more about the army and war our veterans were a part of, but this display is bit overwhelming. There does not seem to be any true inaccuracies in the displays at the museum. There could potentially be small ones like an item being put in the wrong display in the store replications that might keep it from being completely historically accurate, or the dinosaur exhibit could be inaccurate because the dinosaur replica is of one that was thought to have roamed here. There is chance that it may not have which leaves it open to the potential to be a historically inaccurate

I hope to see museums make more concerted efforts to educate the public. Too many exhibits are of the “passive, didactic looking” than like the engaging Object Stories program (Dartt, Murawski). Exhibits should seek to tell untold narratives, and programs should be places of communication and cross-cultural encounters. For too long, difficult confrontations have been avoided, both inside the museum, and by dominant communities

The mission of the museum is to preserve society's highest ideals, and has created a living cultural experience on social justice and human rights that creatively re-imagines the future of community, society and spaces.

The Florence Griswold Museum’s Mission statement, that is found on their website, is “The Florence Griswold Museum fosters the understanding of American art, with emphasis on the art, history, and landscape of Connecticut.” I feel this accurately describes the location I visited. The Florence Griswold Museum is not only an art museum it is also the house Florence lived in, and the grounds that many artists stayed on. The purpose of the house was too board many artists that wanted to come to the artist colony and by doing so impacted many lives. The art museum is a building of four rooms. There are three rooms that house the museum’s collections and the current exhibitions. The other room is the visitor amenities, the orientation film, and a small little shop. My favorite piece of art in the art gallery was the “Peony Window Panel, Richard Beatty Mellon Mansion in

Since the Museum's opening in 1931, the collection has grown to more than 12,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs, representing nearly 2,000 individual artists and providing the most complete overview of twentieth-century American art of any museum in the

Next, each room of art were unique. When I get into each room, some things that surprise me that each room was very exclusive, original and uncommon. Also, the rooms were very enlightened and I personally felt that each room had something for everyone in the family. Another thing that I noted of the museum was the accessibility of each floor, so anybody can go and have a great time without

A greater number of educators are looking to museums to help them attain their educational objectives. Howard Gardner has identified Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood as the perfect environment for stimulating the natural curiosity of a child. Furthermore, in response to demands for new educational approaches, older children are using museums to develop their critical facilities in art and design (Campbell, 1992).