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Exposition universelle de 1900, Paris. Section de la peinture française au Grand Palais. © Léon et Lévy / Roger-Viollet

Incredibly insightful little article from Robin over at Uni of Leicester. I highly recommend!

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Museums are extremely important because above else, they tell me things are real. They actually happened. Here’s tangible proof of it. It’s one thing to be told in history class or in a book that history happened. That’s never more relevant than now when there’s all this anti-Semitic fear (among many others) that embolden Holocaust deniers. But to see rooms full of items that were taken from the Jewish victims, their names on ledgers, remnants of their lost lives that are reminders to all of us that they WERE real. The atrocities DID happen. And we must never forget, especially as the survivors dwindle in numbers as old age takes them.

Megan M.

I think this feedback is such a perfect example of why a museum collection is such an incredible value to our history.

Do you have a story or feedback about why museums are valuable to you or your community? Email me arts.museum.education at gmail dot com

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The distinctive characteristic of cultural history museums is that they relate the human experience. They have been perceived as the memory of society, having the power and responsibility to decide what should be remembered and taking on the role of narrator and communicating stories of national identity, democracy, progress and enlightenment.

Anna Steen, “Samdok: Tools to Make the World Visible”

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All in all, a rewarding exhibit that sacrificed both the graphic designer half of me, and the museum nerd half! Definitely going to return before it leaves the PEM, but next up is to visit the horror movie posters exhibit there laster this week!

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One of my favorite things the PEM does at the end of every exhibit is shows the work that was put into it. Not everyone favors behind-the-scenes elements, but I certainly like seeing the faces of everyone involved in installing, designing, interpreting, etc the material.

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Hard to tell in the photo (I couldn’t really get in the right position to get a good perspective angle of it) but I really like the way they popped this section of the wall out so as not to cut off the view of the print, and not sacrificing any walking space by jutting out into the area.

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Exhibit maps in the transition points from each room into the next - granted the whole exhibit is just one linear flow, but it was nice to see what had been covered, and what was ahead!

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Greatly appreciated the “look up” graphic notes on the signage - it’s pretty common that trying to match an info plaque to suspended artifacts is a losing battle, but they made it easy on us!

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As a museum studies grad student, and a graphic designer, I know I’m inclined to be nit picky, but this one really got to me. Completely off-kilter signage - no excuse for it.

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Was very impressed by the amount of material they had on the Titanic, including actual furniture from the deck and apartments, maps and posters pre-voyage, and a slew of telegrams from various senders in the midst of the disaster.

#titanic #ocean liners #ships #museum #museum life #museum studies #museology #peabody essex museum #salem #massachusetts

A really lovely balance of tech (not too invasive, but extremely fun to play around with and explore the ship interiors) and gorgeous models. The scale and detail was absolutely incredible.

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The first of many rooms was filled to the brim with gorgeous Cassandre poster prints, a ship model, and an assortment of other great marketing materials - a designer’s dream of a room, to be honest.

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Took a trip (I say trip...I mean 5 minute walk from my home) to the Peabody Essex Museum today to see the Ocean Liners exhibit that I still hadn’t gotten around to but was very much looking forward to! One of quite a few exhibits from the V&A to make the trip across the pond, I was ready for gorgeous design, intriguing interpretation, and exciting objects, and that is most definitely what I got!

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#tbt from our last ride to @leicsmusstud with a crowd waiting patiently to celebrate our arrival, of course. (Or our bus was just really late and they were just relieved we hadn’t gotten lost…one of the two). #msss17 (at School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester)

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This was hilarious. After waiting for our late bus for an hour, some of the students still cheerfully waved to us as we arrived.

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anxiousyetepic

Visitors from the second they step into the museum:

And visitors when given directions:

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Edmund Charles Tarbel, ‘Girl Reading’, 1909, 81.91 x 72.39 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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