Readings for 9/25 done 9/20

After reading the articles, it has been really interesting to see the larger involvement of more different types of people within the museum community. It is good to have both males and females working together in order to come up with good ideas which will benefit the museum. It is also good to get a good rounded outlook on different cultures through showing collections about them and also having them get more involved in the museum community through volunteering and working on the different collections. This shows how far we have come from having white educated men running all the museums to having women and members of different ethnic groups working together to get museums which show all of the different exhibits which show what they are all about. Examples include the Native American Museum which is now part of the Smithsonian museums, and having different museums talking about the different groups of people which are out there. It was really intriguing to hear from Polly Norstran's view on what should be done. Hearing about some of her background gives a good addition to show that both men and women should work in museums. It was good to learn about the museum culture and some of the problems which go on being the only minority woman working at a museum at this period of time. Also, about what goes on within the museum working to self-censor itself within the collections. There seems to be a lot of interesting objects within the museum's collection which are never shown, which could be seen to be intriguing to see.