Museum Footnotes: Making History Museums Transparent for Visiting Students

• In Event: 35.082 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 35.082-7 - Engaging Students With History Concepts and Content

Abstract

Teaching K-12 history with museums is hampered by a lack of transparency or “footnotes.” This paper discusses a rationale for opening up the process in which museums construct the past, advocates for a new conceptual model akin to exhibit footnotes, and presents findings from a case of footnotes imbedded in a history museum exhibit.

Authors

• Alan Marcus, University of Connecticut

• Jennifer S. Kowitt, University of Connecticut