utilizing museum collections to enhance the humanities
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Utilizing Museum Collectionsto Enhance the Humanities
http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/handbook/hb118.html
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/meesterwerken
http://www.louvre.fr/media/repository/ressources/sources/illustration/atlas/x196image_59546_v2_m56577569830615660.jpg
Using Museum Images to Illustrate Ideas
The British Museum:http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights.aspx
The Sutton Hoo Treasures:“…love of beauty, joy in creation, perfection in craftsmanship [flourished] in the Dark Ages…” ~ Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Using Museum Images to Teach a Particular Form
The Johnson Art Museum:http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/handbook/hb118.html
Vanitas Paintings: “Vanitas paintings…have their own internal logic… and are meant to challenge the intellect…”
Using Museum Images as a Hook to Interest Students in a Topic
The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/
The Puritans: How can you identify this man as a Puritan? What elements convey this?
Virtual Tours
The Dickens Museum:
http://dickensmuseum.com/vtour/
What elements make this home Victorian?
The Peabody Essex Museum:
http://www.pem.org/visit/yin_yu_tang.php
What elements characterize Chinese homes?
Using Museum Archives to Bring History to Life
The Smithsonian:
http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true?_pageLabel=detail&negNum=2004-26275&action=detail
The Voting Machine (illustration)
The Foundling Hospital Museum:
http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/oralhistory.php
Recordings of former residents
Prepared by Eileen Bach
Concordia International School Shanghai
C. 2010