Face value: Objects of industry and the visitor experience

Public Historian

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 33-48

  Roth, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751228812     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3379577     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. Howard Learner, White Paper on Science Museums (Washington, D.C.: Center for Science on the Public Interest, 1979)
2. Joseph J. Corn, "Tools, Technologies and Contexts: Interpreting the History of American Technics," in Warren Leon and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 241-43
3. George Basalla, "Museums and Technological Utopianism," Winterthur Conference Report (1973), 353-60
4. Gary Kulik, "Designing the Past: History-Museum Exhibitions from Peale to the Present," in Leon and Rosenzweig, eds., History Museums, 26-31
5. Thomas W. Leavitt, "Towards a Standard of Excellence: The Nature and Purpose of Exhibit Reviews," Technology and Culture 9 (January 1968): 70-75
6. Brooke Hindle, "How Much is a Piece of True Cross Worth," in Ian M. G. Quimby, ed., Material Culture and the Study of American Life (New York: Norton, 1978), 5-20
7. Eugene S. Ferguson, "Hall of Power Machinery: Museum of History and Technology," Technology and Culture 9 (January 1968): 75-85
8. and Laurence F. Gross, "Problems in Exhibiting Labor in Museums and a Technological FLx," Technology and Culture 34 (April 1993): 392-400
9. Mike Wallace, "Industrial Museums and the History of Deindustrialization," The Public Historian 9, no. 1 (Winter 1987): 9-19, quotation on 12
10. Mary H. Blewett, "Machines, Workers, and Capitalists: The Interpretation of Textile Industrialization in New England Museums," in Leon and Rosenzweig, eds., History Museums, 262-93; quotations on 268, 270
11. Journal of American History 85 (June 1998): 164-69, quotation on 169, emphasis added
12. Hayden White, The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 1 (quotation), 7, 188-91
13. Robert C. Post and Arthur P. Molella, "The Call of Stories at the Smithsonian: History of Technology and Science in Crisis," ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 3 (1997): 44-82, quotation on 62, emphasis in original
14. Stephen Bitgood, Design and Evaluation of Exhibit Labels (Jacksonville, Ala.: Center for Social Design, 1986)
15. Harold K. Skramstad, Jr., "Interpreting Material Culture from the Other Side of the Glass," in Quimby, Material Culture, 189
16. Lawrence Fitzgerald, "Hard Men, Hard Facts and Heavy Metal: Making Histories of Technology," in Gaynor Kavanagh, ed., Making Histories in Museums (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1996), 106-20
17. James C. Hippen, "Industrial Textile Machinery: Five North American Museums," Technology and Culture 10 (October 1969): 570-86
18. Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), esp. 235-38
19. see Lefebvre, The Production of Space, Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 222
20. David Nye, American Technological Sublime (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994)
21. Glen Fleck, ed., A Computer Perspective by the Office of Charles and Ray Eames (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973)
22. Harris Shettel, "Exhibits: Art Form or Educational Medium?" Museum News 52 (September 1973): 32-41
23. Ross J. Loomis, "Please! Not Another Visitor Survey," Museum News 52 (October 1973): 20-26
24. and C. G. Screven, "Learning and Exhibits: Instructional Design," Museum News 52 (January-February 1974): 67-75
25. Screven, The Measurement and Facilitation of Learning in the Museum Environment: An Experimental Analysis (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974)
26. Catherine M. Howett, "Where the One-Eyed Man Is King: The Tyranny of Visual and Formalist Values in Evaluating Landscapes," in Paul Groth and Todd W. Bressi, eds., Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 85-98
27. and Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality, William Weaver, trans. (San Diego and New York: Harvest/Harcourt Brace, 1986), 18-21
28. Mieke Bal, "Telling, Showing, Showing Off," Critical Inquiry 18 (Spring 1992): 556-94, quotation on 589
29. Steven Lubar, "Exhibiting Memories," Museum News 75 (July/August 1995): 60-73
30. Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces," Diacritics 16 (Spring 1986): 22-27
31. Penelope Bodry-Sanders, Carl Akeley: Africa's Collector, Africa's Savior (New York: Paragon House, 1991), 34-39, quotation on 39
32. Nancy Oestreich Luric, A Special Style: The Milwaukee Public Museum, 1882-1982 (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1983)
33. Frederic Lucas, Fifty Years of Museum Work (New York: The [American] Museum [of Natural History], 1933)
34. Karal Ann Marling, ed., Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance (Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1997)
35. "Interpretive Environments," in T. Wayne Hunt, Designing and Planning Environmental Graphics (New York: Madison Square Press, 1994), 186-216