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Item DEDICATED ART ROOMS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN IN FINE ARTS MUSEUMS(1997)This master's project focused on how art educators in fine arts museums can create developmentally-appropriate dedicated art rooms for children from the ages of four to seven. The purpose of this project was to produce guidelines to show art educators how to set up dedicated art rooms for children between the ages of four to seven; how to guide and facilitate young children and their adult partners in these art rooms; and how to become aware of young children's learning styles and emotional needs so they may be guided in these art rooms.Item DATABASE DIALOGUES: EXAMINING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN VENDORS AND MUSEUMS(2010)A collections manager at a regional natural history museum opens a package he's been waiting weeks for. He carefully takes out the stuffed and mounted California Valley Quail; it is as beautiful as he remembers it being the first time he saw it in the old man's house. This quail makes a wonderful new addition to the museum's collection, just in time for the new exhibit. The collections manager begins to record the bird's information—dimensions, donor information, description, and he assigns the quail its accession number. He also draws a small sketch of the bird while making a mental note to mention the new specimen to the Audubon Society at the meeting next week. This collections manager, and this situation, could take place in 1910, 2010, or any time in between. Museums record information about their objects to help present and future staff rediscover the object later for an exhibition, conservation, a visit by a stakeholder like the Audubon Society, or an educational program. Without this recorded information no one but the collections manager would have any idea the quail existed; no one, not even other museum professionals working at the same institution, would have access to it. Paper records, card catalogs, and collections databases have all served the same purpose: to increase access to a museum's collection. Unlike records on paper, however, databases can be designed to do more than record basic information about an object. Computer technology has made it possible to increase access more than card catalogs ever could.Item DAYLIGHTING MUSEUMS: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES(1996)The purpose of this study is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of the effects of daylight in museums. This master's project investigates the use of daylighting sources in museums as well as their application combined with traditional electric lighting sources. The product of this study is The San Francisco Booklet of Daylight. It was designed to facilitate museum professionals' understanding of daylighting and to help them consider the potential use of daylight in their buildings. This project explores the most recent discoveries in the daylighting field as well as interactions with electrical lighting sources already available, including the latest fiber optics and other similar lighting devices.Item CURRICULUM VITAE: AN INQUIRY INTO NINETEENTH CENTURY WALLPAPERS USED IN AMERICAN HOUSES(1978)Wallpaper is one of the decorative arts of relatively recent date. The earliest known piece is a sixteenth-century fragment dated (by the printing on its reverse) in the reign of Henry VIII. This "Cambridge fragment," found in 1911 in Christ's College, Cambridge, England, has been reconstructed by modern science to show its pomegranate design. For several centuries, members of the craft guilds in England and on the continent manufactured wallpaper with woodblocks, using distemper colors, and a simple flatbed press. These products were very small in size, but for use as wallpaper these separate woodblock prints had to be glued together in large sections either before or after printing. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, machinework replaced handwork, and in the decorative art of wallpaper, its manufacturers, rather than designers, became leaders. A landmark in technology, for example, is the cylinder press, which radically changed both production methods and products. 'Endless" rolls of paper made possible the lengths of wallpaper we know today. Other related changes affecting wallpaper production came from the infant science of chemistry, as inks of different colors and properties were developed for polychromatic printing presses.Item Development of a Prototype Microclimate Case(1993)Research suggests the microclimate case has become an effective method for the preservation of museum objects. While microclimate exhibition cases can be found in museums today, many are expensive, mechanical systems prone to failure, poorly constructed, and fabricated with materials that cause damage to museum objects. This research project primarily investigated a passive method to be employed in microclimate cases as an alternative to the problematic active systems. The purpose of the research was to develop a microclimate case that would stabilize the RH for an extended period of time. Based on the investigative research, a microclimate case was developed that was simple and affordable in design, constructed of inert materials, devoid of mechanical parts, and adaptable to different kinds of museums. The microclimate case as defined was built as a prototype case. The prototype case was then specifically tested to determine if the RH could be stabilized for an extended period of time. The case performance was measured by monitoring the rate of air exchange into the case for several weeks.
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