MUSM 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Systems Theory
24 Sep 2016
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What"s a museum: a building in which interesting and valuable things are collected and presented for the public a. i. Educating the public: what"s an ecosystem? b. i. Interconnected elements formed by a collection of organisms that can impact each other b. ii. This is also an accurate description of a museum: holistic museum and inner vs. The number an object is given when it enters the collection d. ii. 1986 is the year it came to the museum d. ii. 2. The above is work within the inner museum e. Inner and outer play on each other e. i. Ex: if nobody shows up for an exhibit (outer), then maybe research (inner) is negated on the topic, and switched to something else f. Ex: local economy, global economy, memory institution f. iii. Ex of how global economy affects museums: f. iii. 1. War->like art looted from homes by the nazis in wwii f. iii. 2. Ex: isis has destroyed their own culture"s artifacts f. iv.
