In an exhibition called UnEarthing the Secret Life of Stuff: Americans and the Environment, the Strong Museum uses nineteenth- and twentieth-century domestic artifacts to ntroduce its audience to the subject of environmental history. The author, who served as principal researcher for the exhibit, discusses strategies for using material culture analysis to explore both the ideas about nature that everyday objects convey and the changing historical relationships between people and their surroundings that objects embody. Examples from the exhibit show how museum audiences can be enlisted in the effort to make environmental meanings from their material culture. Résumé Dans le cadre d'une exposition intitulée U...
Material and interactive exhibits are important elements of many sites of learning, including scienc...
This chapter explores changing approaches to material culture in the history of science and ways tha...
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temp...
Rapid environmental degradation, a pressing issue in the twenty-first century, is almost unimaginabl...
As a name, “Anthropocene” would seem to signal that this geologic epoch is both because of humans an...
A notable sophistication has taken place in the field of environmental history, as a result of the e...
In this article I interrogate the complex relationship between nature and culture by examining how t...
My current body of work captures and displays a humanity manipulated geological history. I use and r...
Between 1876 and 1997, the exhibition policies and practices of the minera-logical collections of th...
open access articleThis article surveys the state of the field of material culture within the discip...
Museum objects have biographies shaped by their material, geographical and cultural origins, their i...
International audienceResult of a collaboration between two former students from the National Museum...
For fifteen years, I have researched, published, lectured, and taught about art and ecology, focusin...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...
There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeo...
Material and interactive exhibits are important elements of many sites of learning, including scienc...
This chapter explores changing approaches to material culture in the history of science and ways tha...
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temp...
Rapid environmental degradation, a pressing issue in the twenty-first century, is almost unimaginabl...
As a name, “Anthropocene” would seem to signal that this geologic epoch is both because of humans an...
A notable sophistication has taken place in the field of environmental history, as a result of the e...
In this article I interrogate the complex relationship between nature and culture by examining how t...
My current body of work captures and displays a humanity manipulated geological history. I use and r...
Between 1876 and 1997, the exhibition policies and practices of the minera-logical collections of th...
open access articleThis article surveys the state of the field of material culture within the discip...
Museum objects have biographies shaped by their material, geographical and cultural origins, their i...
International audienceResult of a collaboration between two former students from the National Museum...
For fifteen years, I have researched, published, lectured, and taught about art and ecology, focusin...
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behin...
There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeo...
Material and interactive exhibits are important elements of many sites of learning, including scienc...
This chapter explores changing approaches to material culture in the history of science and ways tha...
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temp...