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Connect with my Loss: The Museum of Broken Relationships as an Empathetic Institution
(University of Kansas, 2021-05-11)As contemporary museums increasingly desire to add empathetic dimensions to their exhibits and receive the benefits of relating with their audiences, there is an assumption that it is the content itself that triggers an ... -
Tsan Nawenagahnt: Looking ahead in a good way
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A Museum in Possession of a Nazi-Looted Painting: A Case Study
(2019-03)Since the end of World War II, Holocaust survivors and the families of Holocaust victims have searched for, identified, and sought the return of artworks stolen from their collections by the Nazis. For as long as these ... -
Betwixt and Between: Bridging the Gap between Field and Repository
(2019-04)All too often, archaeologists have viewed curation as a process that manages, rather than investigates, archaeological collections. The resulting curation crisis is the result of a serious imbalance between the continued ... -
The Indigenous Arts Archive: Indigenizing the Spencer Museum of Art’s Database
(2019-04)The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas stewards over 3,000 works by Native North American peoples. Spencer employees have documented these objects, along with another 7,500 art works in the Global Indigenous ... -
Content Preservation and Digitization of Maps Housed in the KU Natural History Museum Division of Archaeology: An Analysis of Opportunities and Obstacles
(2017-04-27)The purpose of this research is to explain the obstacles museums face in preserving map collections, as well as the steps museums can take to overcome these obstacles. The research begins with a brief history of paper ... -
Controversy and Collaboration: Recommendations for Using the Participatory Museum Model
(2017-05)Contemporary American society is fraught with racial tension, making representation of all races and cultures an especially poignant issue. Museums are places where comprehensive narrative interpretations can result in ... -
Saving Historical Museums from the Grave: Making Museums More Resilient
(2016-04-29)In the past ten years, over fifty museums have closed in the United States. These have ranged from large history museums to medium-sized science centers to small niche museums. They were located in both urban, suburban, ... -
Improving Access at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Division of Archaeology
(2016)This paper begins with an historical background of the archaeological collections at the University of Kansas and a description of the Division of Archaeology as it stands today. From there, it defines what access is, what ... -
10 Steps to Social Justice: A Guide to Engaging in Successful and Dynamic Museum Social Work
(2016)Today’s museums are eager to become a more relevant force in the struggle for social justice through the use of their programming and decision-making. Unfortunately, implementing these socially oriented programs for the ... -
Lowering Barriers to User-Control: Considerations for Museum Visitors with Severe Mental Illnesses
(2016-04-19)Surveying the current state of museum accessibility to visitors with severe mental illnesses, this report aims to illuminate an almost entirely invisible issue. While many museums nationwide are creating special programs ...