Re: Museum Studies Examples Request
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Thank you very much, Brent, and everyone else who responded.
I truly appreciate learning about your classes and the academic programs you offer.
With thanks, Anna?
Anna Conlan
Neil C. Trager Director
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY 12561 Tel: 845.257.3847 ? Pronouns: she/her/hers
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Anna:
Over the years, the Georgia Southern Museum has worked hard to ensure that while we maintain a strong outreach program to the community, we are also well integrated into the academic program of the University. Some of our successes have been:
1. a standing relationship with the Art Department where each Fall a senior graphic design course divides the students into teams that compete to develop the winning design for the museum's next changing exhibit which is fabricated in the Spring semester.
The Museum and its faculty curator serve as the client and provide a budget, content, and direction for the teams. They in turn develop an overall layout and look for the exhibit including ideas for interactives, marketing materials, and related merchandise.
We meet half way through the semester to give them feedback on their proposed designs and choose a winning design?at the end of the semester.
2. a unique collaboration between the museum, the Department of History, and the local Convention and Visitors Bureau where I teach an Graduate Introduction to Museums course as part of the MA in History with a concentration in Public History. It is the
only course I teach as an adjunct member of the department. Otherwise I am administrative staff. The course introduces students to the history and many functions of museums, especially through the lense of exhibits. The final project of the course is the students
to develop and fabricate an exhibit in a 1000 sq foot gallery on local?history at the Convention and Visitors Bureau. The CVB provides the budget for fabrication and the services of a graphic designer.?
3. The museum regularly collaborates with professors across the university who would like to have the museum integrate with their course to have students disseminate their research and learning in that course by developing an exhibit as part of the course
objectives. These range from individual case exhibits to larger spaces in the library or a gallery reserved for student projects.
4. Each year we call for proposals from graduate students, primarily in History and Anthropology, and accept one to work with the museum to create an exhibit on their thesis research in a special case in our permanent gallery on cultural history of Georgia's
Coastal Plain. This allows us to highlight student research not currently represented in the gallery, and provide them another important dissemination point for their work. Recent exhibits have looked at the preservation of African American cemeteries and
the stories of slavery they preserve, the importance of mules in southern agriculture, the Georgia oystering industry and the loss of African American oystermen through government regulation, and an upcoming exhibit on the history of the introduction of Mexican
food traditions in Georgia.
Brent
On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 10:33?AM Anna Conlan via
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Brent W. Tharp, Ph.D.
Director, Georgia Southern University Museum 912-478-5444 /
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History
Board Member - Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau?
Vice President - Bulloch County Historical Society? Accreditation & MAP Peer Reviewer - American Alliance of Museums? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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