Project Musings

Musings○ Since a museum is a site of interpretation and not storage for dusty objects, how can we move our audience from understanding the museum as a place for dead cultures and defined knowledge to understanding the museum as a place which presents culture and history that is connected to the here and histories is always developing and changing? • Young (Aboriginal?) community members choose an object from the collections, describe how they relate to/interpret that object • How do we make museum collections more responsive to the community?• Walk through museum with people, have them find an object, talk with them, reflect on it. • Bring a friend (Sisters in Spirit) and a classmate? Go through museum with a few different people, separately?• Could I have them come through the gallery with me free? I would buy them lunch/coffee after for their help?• Come to class with a report/interpretation of our walks!!!• Would we chose one area/object in the multiversity gallery? Would I ask them to begin with exploring artifacts on their own culture?

1) Create lectures/tours by youth on object they choose2) Audio-tour of different peoples' interpretations3) Informal interviews with young women about their thoughts on a MOA artifact

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Final Project

Young Indigenous Women's Relation to MOA Artifacts

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Pseudonyms - strong women of Westeros (Game of Thrones)○ Arya, Sansa, Daenerys, Cersei, Catelyn, Margaery, Ygritte, Missandei, Melisandre, Gilly, Shae, Brienne, Talisa, Osha, Asha, Ellaria, Arianne, Obera, Nymeria, Visenya, Rhaenys, Lysa, Ros

North American Aboriginal Artifact • Permanent collection - great hall, Bill Reid exhibit, outside exhibits, multiversity gallery

Guiding Questions• Choose an object• Why did you choose this object?• How do you feel about/interpret/relate to this object?• Do you know if/how museums collaborate with communities?• How might museums better collaborate with the community?• How do we make museum collections more responsive to the community?