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Finding the Natural Interface: Graduate and Public Education at One University Natural History Museum
Author(s) -
Cordell Linda S.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2000.tb00007.x
Subject(s) - natural history , natural (archaeology) , variety (cybernetics) , higher education , interface (matter) , sociology , public relations , public university , media studies , political science , library science , engineering ethics , engineering , history , public administration , ecology , computer science , archaeology , law , biology , pulmonary surfactant , gibbs isotherm , artificial intelligence , chemical engineering
University natural history museums are much like their public museum counterparts, yet they differ in some important ways including how they are funded and staffed and how they serve their parent institutions. These circumstances provide some unique opportunities for university‐based natural history museums but they also present challenges, especially for their public education goals. While there are surely a variety of creative solutions for resolving these dilemmas, this article explores how the graduate program at the University of Colorado Museum may be seen as an example serving as an interface between diverse facets of the Museum and its several audiences and constituencies. The usefulness of the program as a model and as a means of training and nurturing future museum professionals is discussed.