MATRIX 2001 Workshops Course Alignment Worksheet

Course Alignment Worksheet

Course Learning Outcomes

Associated MATRIX Principles

Learning Activities

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Research, develop, design, fabricate, and install a small museum exhibit, working in collaboration with other members of the class and with representatives of the institutions mounting the exhibit.

Stewardship

Social Relevance

Communication

Classroom Exercises:

Writing Object Labels

Children's Museum Exhibit Development

Collections Management (Year in the Life of an Object)

Collections Management Case Study

Conservation Staff Exercise

Museum Governance

Required texts:

The New Museum Registration Methods

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

Reserve Readings

Special Handouts (12)

Freetown Village Exhibit Project: Conceptualize, research, develop, and design an exhibit in the temporary exhibit space of the Freetown Village in the new Indiana State Museum.