After a very intensive week in the Dawson City Museum (DCM) archives, I am sorting, reading, and analyzing what I found. The documents scanned are interesting and contributing to the narrative(s) about the DCM’s development. In order to help with the analysis, the “Archival Research” series considers the stories archival materials tell, looking at theContinue reading “Archival Research: Arguments Against Centralization”
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Archival Research: Government Relationships
After a very intensive week in the Dawson City Museum (DCM) archives, I am sorting, reading, and analyzing what I found. The documents scanned are interesting and contributing to the narrative(s) about the DCM’s development. In order to help with the analysis, the “Archival Research” series considers the stories archival materials tell, looking at theContinue reading “Archival Research: Government Relationships”
Reflection: A Week at the Dawson City Museum
As some of you may know (and I have documented on @museoception), I am in Dawson City working on the Dawson City Museum Project. Today is my last day, but I simply cannot read or scan any more documents. Seven full days in the archives was too many. So, I am taking time to writeContinue reading “Reflection: A Week at the Dawson City Museum”
Reflections: What interest groups or networks of significance exist in Yukon? What issues have they identified as significant?
As part of my pre-interview reflections for the Dawson City Museum (DCM) Project, this post considers: What interest groups or networks of significance exist and what issues have they identified as significant? Like the posts on ideas and institutions, this post is a preliminary reflection that will evolved as I do interviews. In particular, I suspect there areContinue reading “Reflections: What interest groups or networks of significance exist in Yukon? What issues have they identified as significant?”
Reflections: What actors support and regulate community museums in Yukon?
by Robin Nelson As part of my pre-interview reflections for the Dawson City Museum (DCM) Project, this post considers: What actors – in particular, formal institutions, programs, and policies – support and regulate community museums in Yukon? Importantly, like the post on ideas, this post represents a preliminary reflection – that is, a work inContinue reading “Reflections: What actors support and regulate community museums in Yukon?”
Reflections: Pre-Interview Foundations
by Robin Nelson I am getting ready to start interviews for the Dawson City Museum (DCM) Project – yay! This is my third big interview project. For my MMSt, I interviewed museum professionals about the influence of cultural policy on museum public programming (Nelson 2015). For my PhD, I interviewed Ontario Museum Advisors and peopleContinue reading “Reflections: Pre-Interview Foundations”