Wednesday, May 21, 2008

What I learned at the ACUMG meetings in Boulder (Katy Blanchard)

A lot of people are capitalizing on the Darwin anniversary this year: Northwestern's book of the year is The Reluctant Mr. Darwin.

Listening to the conference, this year entitled: Interdisciplinarity and the Empowerment of the University Museum, I started jotting down ideas that I thought we could bounce around:

-Programming in unusual places
-Can we do a science of conservation show?
-A crosscultural myth show? Students on campus could all read a book, ties into history, different cultural departments, art history, etc.
-We could pick a year, or a century and showcase material from that time in each gallery--a new case per gallery?
-Outdoor film series in the Warden Garden
-Video walk throughs
-Show involving children, easy tie in to the visitors
-With the presidental election, a propaganda show?

Just throwing ideas out in the forum in which we have for now

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