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Online Interpretation Guideline For Historic House Museums, Olivia A. Weixlmann

Museum Studies Theses

What does it mean to be a museum in 2020? How do cultural institutions, charged with preserving our history, navigate the challenges of the modern world? Technological advances including the internet, quickly produce an abundance of media outlets baiting attention that impact the sociopolitical climate driving civil unrest, and ideological division. The surplus of competing information from technology driven outlets result in audiences being overwhelmed and left questioning if the information they're receiving is from a reliable source.

A Proposition For A Beer Museum, Alexa R. Templeton

Museum Studies Theses

Abstract

While the craft brewing industry and subsequently beer tourism are ever-expanding, we only have a few ideas about what beer tourism is and what drives it. The purpose of this study is to take proposed concepts from other beer tourism studies and to expand their ideas into a working design for a museum. The exhibits displayed in this museum will include many components that beer tourists want when they explore the world of beer, such as beer history, making beer, beer styles, and of course tasting beer. These concepts will be presented through text, images, hands-on interactives, and objects, …