Life on Display - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life on Display write by Karen A. Rader. This book was released on 2014-10-03. Life on Display available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education. Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.
The Politics of Display
The Politics of Display - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Display write by Sharon Macdonald. This book was released on 2010-10-05. The Politics of Display available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about 'science' and 'objectivity' are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in point. The Politics of Display charts the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display. The Politics of Display brings together an array of international scholars in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and history. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine, and locations include the United States of America, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Spain. This book is an excellent contribution to debates about the politics of public culture. It will be of interest to students of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, museum studies and science studies.
Science on Display
Science on Display - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science on Display write by Carolyn Dale. This book was released on 2007-06. Science on Display available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Practical and inspirational display ideas for Science lessons with activities designed to encourage children to pursue their own lines of enquiry and investigation.The themes practice key skills, provide a display idea and a clear focus of learning, and are suitable for whole class and small group work across the primary age range.
Science Museums in Transition
Science Museums in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science Museums in Transition write by Carin Berkowitz. This book was released on 2017-07-19. Science Museums in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know it—an institution of expert knowledge built to inform a lay public—was still very much in formation during this dynamic period. Science Museums in Transition provides a nuanced, comparative study of the diverse places and spaces in which science was displayed at a time when science and spectacle were still deeply intertwined; when leading naturalists, curators, and popular showmen were debating both how to display their knowledge and how and whether they should profit from scientific work; and when ideals of nationalism, class politics, and democracy were permeating the museum's walls. Contributors examine a constellation of people, spaces, display practices, experiences, and politics that worked not only to define the museum, but to shape public science and scientific knowledge. Taken together, the chapters in this volume span the Atlantic, exploring private and public museums, short and long-term exhibitions, and museums built for entertainment, education, and research, and in turn raise a host of important questions, about expertise, and about who speaks for nature and for history.
Display and Interface Design
Display and Interface Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Display and Interface Design write by Kevin B. Bennett. This book was released on 2011-03-09. Display and Interface Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Technological advances in hardware and software provide powerful tools with the potential to design interfaces that are powerful and easy to use. Yet, the frustrations and convoluted "work-arounds" often encountered make it clear that there is substantial room for improvement. Drawn from more than 60 years of combined experience studying, implement
