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Welcome - Museum studies, sometimes called
museology, is the field that encompasses the ideas and issues
involved in the museum profession—from the practical, day-to-day
skills needed to operate a museum to theories on the societal
role of museums.
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The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
(SCEMS) assists the museum community in acquiring and strengthening
its understandings and practices of museology. This website is
one of the Center's tools for serving the educational and informational
needs of the field. |
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Smithsonian ALL ACCESS Digital Arts Program CAMP |
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Friend Making + Digital Tools + Smithsonian Resources = All Access Digital Arts Program.
A two-week, multi-media summer camp for Washington, D.C.-area teens with cognitive disabilities, promoting interactive, project-based learning experiences at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn ArtLab+ in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access and the Smithsonian Accessibility Program.
Session Dates: August 5-9 & 12-16, 2013
Time: 10am-2pm
Location: ArtLab+ at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (7th and Jefferson DR SW, in the Sculpture Garden)
ALL ACCESS Digital Arts Program Camp is an opportunity for high school students with cognitive disabilities in the Washington, D.C.-area to participate in a two-week multi-media camp at the Smithsonian Institution. Students participate in supported interactive learning experiences during the summer program comprised of up to 20 peers at the Hirshhorn Museum’s ArtLab+. Students explore areas of interest at different Smithsonian museums in a way that is tailored to meet their individual needs. After facilitated exploration and documenting their experiences using digital recording devices, students compile their digital media, create a digital movie, and share their digital work using social media with their camp peers and friends. The week culminates with a student movie premiere and reception for parents and friends. The camp is FREE to students and made possible by the generosity of a Smithsonian Youth Access Grant.
Download the application: APPLICATION
For questions or additional information please contact tspinale@si.edu. See what we do at: www.facebook.com/AllAccessDigitalArtsProgram. |
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Rewarding Museum Participation and Learning: New Approaches |
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“Rewarding Museum Participation and Learning: New Approaches,” a symposium on digital badging programs that reward achievement, featuring Maxwell L. Anderson, the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, on “Changing the Currency of Museum Membership: Participation v. Cash.”
Replay available here. |
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Locate professional-development opportunities and information
for making informed career decisions and finding a job. |
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Look into opportunities to research museology issues
at the Smithsonian.
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Find professional associations and special interest groups,
on-line references, bibliographies, curriculum tools and
materials, and much more. |
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Watch past presentations hosted by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies on topics relating to museology. |
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Latest Research & Reports |
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Dr. Helen Graham
University of Leeds and Smithsonian Fellowship in Museum Practice Fellow (2010-2011)
All Access Digital Arts Camp Report (.doc | .pdf)
Related content:
All Access Digital Arts Camp
Museums for Us
Accessibility Resources
Smithsonian Accessibility Program
Dr. Hadwig Kraeutler
Belvedere Museum of Austrian Art, Vienna & SCEMS’ Merit Award Recipient 2011
The museologist, writer, educationalist Alma S. Wittlin (1899 - 1990) (.doc | .pdf)
Related content:
Smithsonian History
Museum Education Resources
Dr. Olaug Andreassen
Documentalist/Anthropologist, Oslo, Norway and Smithsonian Fellowship in Museum Practice Fellow (2010-2011)
Project Report: Making Digitized Collections Useful. What can we learn from current Smithsonian work with source communities?
( .pdf | link)
More Useful Collections Blog
Related content:
Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center
Collections Resources
Ms. Tine Seligmann
Curator Learning Museum & SCEMS Professional Visit 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
May I share a story with you?—on different approaches to user involvement (.doc | .pdf)
Related Content:
Learning Museum
Evaluation and Visitor Studies
LOOKING for more reports? Go to: Alumni and Research Reports |
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