Presentation: Museums and Their Communities
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- The presentation explores the evolution of museums and ways in which museums can make themselves more useful to their immediate communities. Suggestions included involving people in the decision making, fundraising, and membership of museums; understanding the role of urban projects as they relate to museums; and determining the contributions the museum can make toward solving problems which plague its community and its residents. Additionally, the concepts of the branch museum and the neighborhood museum are explained. Quotes by S. Dillon Ripley and John Kinard are integrated into the presentation.
- Presentation. AV002677: music and narration only, consistent beeping throughout recording. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1970s
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Narration
- Music
- Topic
- African Americans
- Museums
- Community museums
- Museums and community
- Museum techniques
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Citation
- Presentation: Museums and Their Communities, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.AV09-021, Item ACMA AV002677
Related Content
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Conference Recordings
- Scope and Contents note
- This collection contains video and audio recordings of conference sessions and seminars held at, hosted by, or attended by personnel of the Anacostia Community Museum. It includes recordings from the years 1973-1992, with the majority being created in 1976. Notable conferences documented in the collection include the First Annual Black History Museums Seminar in 1976, the Black Records Conference, and the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum's Sixth Anniversary Seminar.
- Date
- 1973-1992
- bulk 1976-1976
- Extent
- 3 Linear feet
- 7 Sound recordings (7 audio cassette sound recordings)
- 59 Video recordings (29 open reel 1/2" video recordings ; 30 VHS 1/2" video recordings)
- Provenance
- Many of the video recordings originally recorded onto 1/2" open reel were transferred to VHS in 1990.
- Citation
- Conference Recordings, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Video recordings
- Conferences
- Museum records
- Topic
- African Americans
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.AV09-021