Utilizing Museum Collections to Enhance the Humanities

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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

Utilizing Museum Collections to Enhance the Humanities