Miracle on the prairie: The development of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (original) (raw)
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The purpose of this project is to compile a brief history of Oklahoma art museums, while specifically honoring individual contributors that have made the existence of these museums possible. The emphasis on individual contributors is a result of my employment at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum. With an institutional mission of "[preserving] Oklahoma's unique history while promoting pride in our great state...by telling Oklahoma's story through its people," it was necessary to highlight individuals that helped create Oklahoma's extensive museum network. In addition to the institutional constraints highlighted by the mission statement above, there were several factors that contributed to the selection process for inclusion in the project. The most restrictive of these factors was using Hall of Fame inductees whose portraits were already on hand at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. When a portrait was not on hand, a loan agreements were met with a...
Library of congress cataloging-in-publication data names: armstrong-fumero, fernando, editor. | Hoil gutierrez, Julio, editor. title: Legacies of space and intangible heritage : archaeology, ethnohistory, and the politics of cultural continuity in the americas / edited by fernando armstrong-fumero and Julio Hoil gutierrez. description: boulder : University press of colorado, [2017] | includes bibliographical references and index. identifiers: Lccn 2016056647| isbn 9781607325710 (cloth) | isbn 9781607326595 (pbk) | isbn 9781607325727 (ebook) subjects: LcsH: cultural landscapes-america-case studies. | cultural property-protectionamerica-case studies. | cultural property-america-Management-case studies. | Historic sites-conservation and restoration-america-case studies. | Historic sites-america-Management-case studies. classification: Lcc gf500 .L44 2017 | ddc 973-dc23 Lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056647 an electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open access isbn for the pdf version of this book is 978-1-60732-700-4; for the epUb version the open access isbn is 978-1-60732-720-2. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. front-cover photographs: taperinha plantation (top), cavern of the painted rock, Monte alegre (bottom), courtesy of anna c. roosevelt.
Essay review: Museums: Revisiting sites in the history of the natural sciences
Journal of the History of Biology, 1995
Arguably the most productive sites for research and publication on the natural sciences in the nineteenth century, at least in North America, were the often architecturally dramatic museums of natural history and geology. Built in major cities and some smaller towns, on college and university campuses, and even within the estates of wealthy patrons, natural history museums were symbols and centers for science. In recent years historians of science, as well as anthropologists and sociologists, have concentrated on locations significant for modem scientific research activity, particularly the early academies and the scientific laboratories of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 1 Somewhat surprisingly, to date relatively little historical attention has been paid to the scientific institution most visible to the general public and most essential to those involved in the exploration and ordering of the world's natural phenomena throughout the nineteenth century, and indeed to the present day. Natural history museums were the principal location for dialogues and the exchange of specimens among those debating the identification and connection among natural objects (and, later, human artifacts). Informal staff conversations, routine and pivotal decisions about the display of objects, the codification of specimen identities, and the explanations in museum publi-
2017
After over two decades of planning and 5 years of conserving, packing, and moving, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has finished the first two phases of the largest move of archaeological artifacts in the museum's history and quite possibly in the American Southwest. Framed within the historical background of evolving collection storage over many decades, the Archaeological Research Collections were moved from the Laboratory of Anthropology and another off-site storage location to a new state of the art off-site storage facility at the Center for New Mexico Archaeology (CNMA). Decisions that eased the overall move, including issues resulting from the move and how they were remedied, are discussed. Overall, this particular collections move demonstrates the capabilities that a small staff can have if given enough time, volunteers, and grant resources.
The Past Meets the Future at the Utah State University Museum of Anthropology
Utah Archaeology , 2011
We discuss the founding, growth, and future of the Utah State University (USU) Museum of Anthropology (MOA). In 1963, Dr. Gordon Keller launched what would later become the MOA in the basement of USU’s historic Old Main building in an effort to share archaeological collections with students and to facilitate learning outside the classroom. Subsequently, other professors donated or otherwise transferred the fruits of their anthropological labors to the growing museum’s holdings, as did members of the Cache Valley community. The museum now houses ethnographic and archaeological collections from around the world, a few of which we highlight in this paper, together with examples of our public programming. We weave into our discussion the stories of two historic USU spaces and their roles in the MOA’s evolution: the museum’s current home in the south turret of the Old Main building and the USU Horse Barn-cum-Art Barn, which is the soon-to-be renovated new facility for a much-expanded MOA.
Changes in Historic Site Function: The Johnson-Taylor Adobe
This paper describes archaeological investigations at the Johnson-Taylor adobe in Penasquitos Canyon, San Diego. These studies are focussed on determining changes in the use and function of the adobe area through time. Although these changes actually began about 5500 years ago, with the occupation of the adobe area by native groups, this paper concentrates on the historic period.
From a Tabula Rasa to the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation
The Public Historian
Prior to 2009, South Texas was essentially an archaeological tabula rasa, largely unknown in the academic, public, or grey literature due to its location far from research universities, the state historic preservation office, and cultural resource management firms. Here, we relate how a consortium of anthropologists and archaeologists, biologists, historians, geologists, and geoarchaeologists have embraced a locally focused, place-based STEAM research approach to tell the story of a largely unknown region of the United States and make it accessible to K–17 educators,1 the public, and scholars with bilingual maps, books, exhibits, films, traveling trunks, and scholarly publications. The efforts of the Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley have been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally.