Draft Big Ideas
1. Why do we collect?
2. Personal journeys create meanings in objects
3. Collecting is timeless
Draft Mission Statements
1. Visitors will question the meaning of collecting objects and the choices they make when collecting
2. Visitors will question how they give meaning to the objects they collect.
3. Visitors will explore how culture and temporal context give objects personal meaning.
Ideas:
1. Some are authentic, some are not: how do you know? Authenticity?
2. How do you choose what you want to collect?
3. Re-create a room: how did she displays the objects?
4. How does display matter? Lots of stuff all together vs an object on its own?
5. Travel methods: luxury vs not-luxury?
6. Collecting culture
7. What do you do with the things you collect?
8. People collect today for the same reasons they did then. But some is different
9. Similarities and differences to now
10. Archaeology
“Journey” can mean a lot of different things
Physical travel: Victorian, her story …
Purchasing of objects: market, centennial (compare to a mall?)
Travel for a purpose vs. someone who comes across it and falls in love with it
Centennial expo as a way of travel = window to the world
Like the internet today
What are museums?
We collect stuff
Museums are collections of stuff
Museums are collections of culture
Will we understand museums better?
What did she do with her objects? Museum.
What do we do with our stuff?
Basket people making baskets = art
Pot people making baskets = not art: making money off of tourists
What’s the difference? To her? To them? To us?
For the general feel of the exhibit:
What did she experience on her trip?
Feel of then vs. feel of now
Set in Victorian times, with little off-set panels for modern day stuff
Overwhelming
Bright colors
Clutter, like natural history museum
Stuff. Looking through stuff. Where’s Waldo? Busy.
Feel of natural lighting
Interactives
Post-cards for the visitors
“money” to buy and choose stuff with
Why do we care?
Glamour of travel?
Exotic trip
People want to travel
Travel and methods etc may have changed, but the collecting is the same.
Concept of journey is something people then share with people today
From in class:
Personal collections. We all are collectors in some form.
Where do we put things? What do we do with them?
On display in homes
On fridge
In museums
Educate the public
Basis of museums is collection
If you go somewhere, and don’t take an object, you are still collecting … ? What are you collecting? Collecting memories.
What makes it a collection? As compared to accumulation, bunch of junk …
How has definition of collection changed over time?
Is it about what you bring back to share about your trip and/or your personal identity?
Travel does not have to be around the world.
Relation between objects, meaning, time and place, context
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