Projects - Museum Studies

Creating a searchable history.

Berge, Courtney E. (2017-06-22)

Throughout the summer and fall of 2016, I worked on a project for the Mayborn Museum Complex in Waco, Texas. For 6 months, I worked to archive the Mayborn’s digital born photographs. These images were taken at events, ...

MAW museum 2.0 : bringing participatory programs to Waco.

Doyen, Matthew. (2017-06-22)

During the Fall of 2016 and the Spring of 2017, I partnered with the Museum Association of Waco (MAW) to create a Traveling Community Museum. The public outreach project was completed in two phases. In the first phase, we ...

A curious collaboration : explorations in exhibition development.

Norris, Jenna. (2017-06-22)

This project focused on gaining experience in the exhibition development process and in planning and management of traveling exhibitions. The product of this learning experience was the creation of an auxiliary exhibit ...

Harding Black : rediscovered.

Garland, Joshua Shawn. (2016-09-08)

This project documents the effort to process and exhibit the Harding Black Collection. Donated to Baylor University in 1995, this collection of approximately 12,000 ceramic objects by the master ceramist and researcher ...

Cleaning out the attic : evaluating and refining the Heritage textile collection at Historic Waco Foundation.

Childers, Rebekah. (2014-05)

This graduate project was completed at Historic Waco Foundation in Waco, TX. The project consisted of the examination and evaluation of the women’s textiles in HWF’s Heritage Collection on an item-level basis. Objects were ...

From private collection to public exhibit : designing a Native American Exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Young, Kathleen Marie, 1990- (2014-09-05)

The project, From Private Collection to Public Exhibit, involved evaluating a large collection of Native American artifacts at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and using those artifacts to create an object-based ...

Making a molehill out of a mountain : creating a policies and procedures manual for the Confederate Reunion Grounds.

Salinas, Megan. (2014-09-05)

The goal of this project was to assist Dixie Hoover, Site Manager for the Confederate Reunion Grounds (CRG) in Mexia, Texas, in creating a cohesive set of policies and procedures for the site. The CRG was recently transferred ...

Art framed by archives : building a special collections archive at The Grace Museum.

Dietz, Amanda Faith. (2014-09-05)

Although archives and museums may be viewed as institutions that have little to do with each other, both entities acquire and preserve objects of cultural importance and make them accessible to the public. This project ...

Take me to the movie show : curating and creating digital content.

Lovell, Hannah Haney. (2014-06-11)

The digital presence of museums has continually grown in recent years. This project examines the processes of digitizing a collection and creating digital content. The goals of this project were to select 155 pieces from ...

Illuminating masterpieces : the Martin Museum of Art Collections Crowdsourcing Project.

Hallinan, Margaret E. (2014-06-11)

The Martin Museum of Art Collections Crowdsourcing Project was designed to assist in researching and managing the museum’s permanent collection. With a small staff and obligatory demands of basic collections care, changing ...

From vision to verity : the Mayborn Museum Complex Oral History Project.

Sielaff, Steven K. (2014-01-28)

The Mayborn Museum Complex Oral History Project documents the capital campaign, design, construction and formal dedication in 2004 of the Mayborn Museum Complex at Baylor University through the use of oral history interviews. ...

Redesigning the Recycle Discovery Room at the Mayborn Museum.

Knight, Kathryn B. (2013-09-16)

This project revolves around the redesign of the Recycle Discovery Room at the Mayborn Museum Complex. The room has been redesigned to expand the topic of recycling to include sustainability, thus the renaming of the room ...

From farm to market : digitizing the Confederate Reunion Grounds collection for public access.

Galbraith, Danica R. (2013-09-16)

This graduate project was completed at the Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site in Mexia, Texas, over the course of six months in 2012. The project included inventorying, cataloging, rehousing, digitizing, and ...

Museums and exercise : a smart workout.

Brown, Whitney T. (2013-09-16)

In 2010, First Lady, Michelle Obama launched an initiative to combat childhood obesity called Let’s Move!. One year later, the First Lady expanded the initial idea to Let’s Move: Museums and Gardens. Many museums were ...

Cleaning skeletons from our closets : the repatriation movement in the United States of America, New Zealand and Canada.

McCarthy, Mary K. (2013-05-15)

This project explores the complex issues that still surround NAGPRA and offers current solutions to American museums struggling with them. The chapters examine the current state of repatriation efforts in the United States, ...

Diamonds and denim : a case study of large-scale western art exhibitions and sales as museum fundraising opportunities.

Perez, Lauren A. (2012-08-08)

This project will discuss the varying styles and similarities of large-scale exhibitions and sales within museums specializing in the art of the American West, primarily focused on the Western Artists of America Show and ...

Engaging visitors in historic buildings : Dallas Heritage Village's revitalization project in the Citizen's Bank building.

Cavenah, Kelli A. (2012-08-08)

Although most museums have transformed from dim, dusty, quiet places of private intellectual pursuits into vibrant, educational institutions, many historic homes and buildings have struggled to make the leap into the ...

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