Titlebook: Connecting with Our Ancestors: Human Evolution Museum Experiences; Shelley L. Smith Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author

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Introduction: A Movable Armenia,omplexity of achieving the proper balance. Additional topics in this chapter include the appropriate use of technology and the requisite level of seriousness when humans are the focus of museum exhibits.

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The Texas Museums’s Texas Memorial Museum, the sole university-located museum surveyed, which formerly displayed the . exhibit funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The chapter ends with a “Side Trip” to San Antonio’s Witte Museum, focusing especially on the difficulty of conceptualizing Deep Time.

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The West Coast: Californiasial Cerutti Mastodon site. San Francisco’s . provides a good comparison case for Cleveland’s human origins exhibit (Chap. .), as both foreground the Ethiopian early hominin fossil record. Additionally, the California Academy includes content relevant to the interpretation of modern human biological variation.

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Content and Changers and staff decide what to include in exhibits? Who makes these decisions? What are the most important points to convey in human evolution exhibits? Answers include consideration of the differing missions of the museums and the desire to provide visitors with unique experiences.

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Fantasy and Realityd content: scientists, educators, designers, artists, administrators, or all together in dynamic interaction? This chapter encourages creative thought while simultaneously emphasizing the significant challenges involved in implementing exhibit construction and modification.

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Education and “Edutainment”omplexity of achieving the proper balance. Additional topics in this chapter include the appropriate use of technology and the requisite level of seriousness when humans are the focus of museum exhibits.

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Carsten Niebuhr, ‘Sinus Persicus’, 1765ast. This chapter emphasizes the importance of museum volunteers who provide critical free labor. Finally, a Side Trip to the Denver Zoo indicates the reinforcement of the “we-are-primates” message visitors to the zoo will gain.

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