Intensive Learning @ MFS
The World At Your Fingertips
Aidan C The mummy exhibit in the Penn Museum is unique in that it doesn’t clearly express this culture in a humane way. For a place that is built on humanity, the mummy exhibit portrays humans in a way that could be seen as disrespectful seeing as one of the mummies is displayed naked....
Continue readingToday, we spent the day hard at work in Ms. McFeely’s room because there was no museum trip planned. We started the day preparing presentations with pictures from yesterday’s scavenger hunt. After we presented, we were given the chance to do some reading and then discuss as a group. For lunch, we cooked Mac...
Continue readingToday Cabinets of Curiosities went to the Natural History Museum. First, we took an in-depth look at the front of the museum and its intentions of displaying masculinity, imperialism and man’s place in society. Then we ate lunch at Uno’s Chicago Deep Dish Pizza … in New York. After that, we split into teams...
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What does it all mean? is the most essential question we can ask about our day today. We began by using our personal items to create sample museum exhibits and then critiqued them. Once we examined all of the objects we brought in, we worked in small groups to make exhibits (we had to...
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Our first stop will be in Philadelphia. The American Philosophical Society and Peale’s Museum of Natural History were both founded around a basic Enlightenment premise: that humans could and should understand the natural world. Both understood that the natural world behaved according to fixed laws that people could deduce through careful empirical study. These...
Continue readingToday, we began our journey at the American Philosophical Society, where we viewed many very old and very rare documents, and learned how to curate a museum exhibit. We saw an 80 pound book by Audubon filled with life-size pictures of birds (some now extinct), that was worth millions of dollars. The cabinet below...
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