Dr.Bruggeman and Dr. Lubar

On Friday there was a presentation with the infamous Professor Lubar of Brown University. This was different from most presentations because it was a conversation between Dr. Bruggeman and Dr. Lubar.  They talked about the future of museums and how they are rapidly changing. The museums are different internally from Dr.Lubar started working in museums; he talked about traders, educators and exhibit societies. I did not fully understand the concept of the job of the traders.  He talked about how different museums conveyed different messages. This made me think back to the different types of display modes that exist; the archival, the experience, the interactive and the diorama. These different models help convey the different messages that the museums try to convey. This is an excellent talk to have towards the end of the class because it connects all the different ideas together.  An interesting topic that was addressed in this talk was how people resisted digital history. I have the same feelings about change and I probably would have resisted too, but at the same time America is becoming more technologically advance so for a museum not to have digital tours/histories would be silly. There are some museums that should advance with the times, especially the different house museums and the Wagner Museum.  The Wagner Museum main mission is to preserve the history of the museum and to present it to the public as it was when it first opened in the late 1800s.

                I felt like Dr. Lubar was talking very quietly so I did not hear what he said properly, what I did heard was very interesting. This is a topic that should be address to temple students in the future because museums are what hold the knowledge about the past and the present.