What does NAGPRA stand for
Native American Graves protection and repatriation act
What is the purpose of napra?
Outline a requirement and process for museums and agencies to return to our native American cultural items to lineage descents culturally affiliated Indian tribes or native Hawaiian organizations
What does NAGPRA require? Museums and other federally funded agencies to do
NAGPRA advisory review committee’s responsible for
4th century BC to 6th century what was the meaning of museum concept?
Research and academic institution meeting venue, festival of poetry and arts. Collection of records. First time of the definition
Alexandrian Museum was what
Embodied modern concept of museum denoting notion of learning from objects Greek mythion seat of the muses
What well known institute was a part of the Alexandrian Museum
Library of Alexandria
What was going on in the medieval times?
Personal collections became property of the church. Religious relics works of arts
What came about 14th century CE 17th century CE?
Cabinets of curiosity
What are cabinets of curiosity?
Early ancestors of museums featured antiques objects of natural history. No classification system of knowledge
When was the first classification in cabinets?
15 CE
What were the eight original categories in the cabinets?
Artificialia
Naturalia
Exotica
Animalia
Mirabilia
Miracula
Antiquitas
What was artificialia
Objects created or modified by human (antiques works of art)
Naturalia
Creatures and natural objects (monsters)
Scientifica
Testaments of man’s ability to dominate nature (clocks and science instruments)
Mirabilia
(overlap with artificialia) finite marvels
Miracula
(overlap with artificialia) infinite and divine models
Antiquitas
(overlap with artificialia) objects of historical importance
What were the guidelines of an ideal cabinet in the 16 CCE?
Historic object, natural history material applied art and crafts fine art
What happened during the enlightenmented era 1685 through 1815?
Systems and scientific methods were being applied to the understand both cultural and nature
Enlightenment era was what for museums
Birth of prototypical public museum, modern museum
What was energized during the enlightenment or?
Ridgid classification system across various kinds of museums, including art, history, natural, libraries
What was happening in Europe during 1685 through 1815?
Transition of collections
Transition of collection
The tradescants cabinet
Ashmolean Museum at Oxford university 1683
Oxford University Museum of natural History 1860