1st Edition
Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World Mentoring, Collaborations, and Interactive Knowledge Transfer in Times of Transformation
Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World demonstrates that digital literacy, creativity, and resilience, as the COVID-19 pandemic has so vividly illustrated, are now vital components of the classroom and of the curator’s toolbox.
Museum studies students are increasingly asked to engage with new team dynamics and collaborative models, often relocated to the virtual world. Authored by academics, cultural heritage partners, students, and alumni, the chapters in this volume move beyond a consideration of the impact of digitisation to envision new strategies and pedagogies for fuller, more sustainable approaches to cultural literacy, exhibition, and visitor engagement. International case studies present models of collaborative practices between teams of diverse sizes and professional backgrounds. The volume demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the use of a variety of pedagogically and culturally significant hybrid and virtual models that provide innovative learning modalities to meet the needs of future generations of digital native patrons. This book offers meaningful strategies that will help academic and cultural heritage institutions engaged in museum studies to survive — and even thrive — in the face of future disasters by expanding programme accessibility beyond the physical confines of their buildings.
Museum Studies for a Post-Pandemic World will be of interest to students and researchers engaged in the study of museums, the arts, cultural management, and education. It should also be of interest to museum practitioners around the world.
INTRODUCTION.
Adaptative, Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, and Inclusive Online and Hybrid Strategies to Inspire the Post-Pandemic Museum Studies Classroom
Leda Cempellin and Pat Crawford
PART I – WHY WE GATHER: CONNECTING AND SHARING
1. Belonging and Being Human: Developing a Framework to Teach Museum and Heritage Studies Online During a Crisis and Beyond
Chiara O’Reilly and Anna Lawrenson
2. Gathering Online: A Collaborative Project with Graduate Museum Education Students During COVID-19
Briley A. Rasmussen and Carissa DiCindio
3. Museum Studies in Our Own Backyard: We Have an App for That!
Lisa Marotz and Kathryn Plank
PART II – PIVOTING OUR PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS TO AFFECT CHANGE
4. Remote Internships During Intersecting Pandemics: Recognising the Significance of Social and Emotional Learning for Adults
Martha M. Schloetzer
5. Lessons Learned from a Pandemic: How COVID-19 and the Racial Justice Crisis Impacted University of San Francisco’s Social Justice-Focused Museum Studies Curricula
Javier Plasencia, Paloma Añoveros, Paula Birnbaum, Karen Fraser, Eyal Shahar, Karren Shorofsky, Steven Tulsky
6. The Next Evolution of Museum Studies: Museum Masterclasses in Augmented and Virtual Reality
Heather McLaughlin and Laura-Edythe Coleman
7. Perspectives on Virtual Internship Programming from a Collegiate Museum Practices Programme, Host Museum, and Post-Graduates
Adriana R. Dunn, Leslie Luebbers, Neecole A. Gregory, Rachel Wilson, Cannon Fairbairn
PART III – CREATIVE TENSIONS: BRIDGING THE ACADEMIC-WORKFORCE GAP
8. Redefining the Museum Placement in a Post-pandemic World: Challenges and Opportunities Presented by the Virtual Model
Margaret McColl and Delia Wilson
9. Digital Storytelling and Digital Skills in Museums
Anra Kennedy
10. Immersive Digital Learning: Transforming an Onsite Simulation into a Powerful Virtual Learning Experience
Megan Gately, Colleen Hill, Jessica Johns, and Anthony Pennay
11. Collaborative Conservation E-Course Across Borders: Interpretation and Presentation of an Uncomfortable Heritage Site in Berlin
Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir, Katelyn Williams, Steven Cooke, and Iain Doherty
PART IV – THE IMPACT OF SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE IN TRANSFORMING MUSEUM STUDIES
12. Mapping Memories and Making Meaning: Community-Engaged Heritage Studies and Research
Hannes Engelbrecht and Martina Jordaan
13. Re-Imagining Museums from the Screen: The Challenges and Opportunities of Pandemic Learning
Dalia Habib Linssen and Martina Tanga
14. From Streets, to Galleries, to Internet: Defining “Contemporary Museum Space” in Chinese Art Exhibitions Pre- and Post-Pandemic
Shaoqian Zhang
CONCLUSION
Ready for Change: The New Resilient Cultural Heritage Professional in the Post-Pandemic Era
Leda Cempellin and Pat Crawford
Biography
Leda Cempellin (Research Doctor, Università degli studi di Parma) is a Professor of Art History, Coordinator of Museum Studies minor, and current Associate Director of the School of Design at South Dakota State University. She published The Ideas, Identity and Art of Daniel Spoerri with Vernon Press (2017).
Pat Crawford is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and the Director of the School of Design at South Dakota State University. She earned her Master’s in Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University and her PhD in Environmental Design and Planning from Arizona State University. She co-authored several APLU reports on employability skills for the series From Academia to the Workforce.
