[NHCOLL-L:2] Museology

[Christine Chandler]

I'm forwarding this from the dinosaur list, anyone care to comment?

>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 08:33:54 -0500 (EST)
>Reply-To: th81 at umail.umd.edu
>Sender: owner-dinosaur at usc.edu
>From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81 at umail.umd.edu>
>To: dinosaur at usc.edu
>Subject: Museology

>
>What would the ideal early 21rst Century dinosaur hall look like at a given
>museum?

>That is, what do you, the interested public, want to see in future dinosaur
>exhibits?

>I'm looking here for all aspects: particular mounts (of taxa previously not
>mounted; of new and interesting positions...); means of organizing exhibits;
>type and topic of text; interactivity (if so, what kind); life
>reconstructions or not; etc.

>Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
>Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
>Dept. of Geology              Email:tholtz at geol.umd.edu
>University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
>College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661



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Christine Chandler                  Tele: (203) 432-3760
Vertebrate Paleontology             Fax:  (203) 432-9816 
Yale Peabody Museum                 E-MAIL: christine.chandler at yale.edu
170 Whitney Ave., P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118

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