"How does an artist make a sculpture or a painting? What tools do they use? What happens to the artwork next? This fun, inside look at the life of an artwork shows the journey of two artists' work from studio to exhibition. Stopping along the way we meet colorful characters--curators, photographers, shippers, museum visitors, and more!"-- Provided by publisher

"Eight-year-old Hmong American twins Astrid and Apollo are looking forward to the traveling museum, where replicas of dinosaurs, mummies, and prehistoric creatures will be on display. But Astrid is NOT looking forward to seeing the mummies--especially after she and Apollo watch a scary movie in which mummies come back to life! Apollo tries to convince Astrid to conquer her fear of 'things that can't happen.' But at the traveling museum, Astrid, Apollo,...

"The CD contains a 6-minute video of the Excellent Judges process--the orientation meeting, the exhibition visit, and the discussion meeting. ... The photographs on the CD are in color and have captions that are based on comments--reactions and feelings--made by a judge as he or she visited the exhibition and wrote notes. On the CD, you can link these comments to related information listed in the Framework."--P. xii.

"This full-color book uses real-world examples, museum and exhibition design studio profiles, historical and contemporary voices, and draw on the author's own creative practice and exhibition making experience, as well as contributions from his extensive network of international museum, attraction, and design professionals"-- Provided by publisher.

"Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how museums can...

"Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery's Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and Greenwood Rising, which commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. These museums are challenging historical...