Making History
Makerspaces for Museums and Historic Sites
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2023
144 pages
979-8-7651-7519-4 (ISBN)
Description
While first person interpretation and historic crafts have long been part of the museum world, current movements in the maker movement in libraries and schools have occurred mostly outside of the museum world. Instead, Makerspace in Museums: Hands-On History in Museums and Historic Sites shows the importance of the Maker Movement for museums and historic sites, and presents a roadmap to building, planning, researching, and using a makerspace alongside more traditional museum programming. It calls for a revitalization of living history, which can be done through makerspaces and the maker movement.
Highlights include:
Why museums and makerspaces are a natural fit togetherWays to organize and create a makerspace in a museum of any budgetCreating a makerspace and culture of making that is inclusive and for the entirety of the communityStrategies for researching historic making techniques and adapting them to the modern worldCreating meaningful makerspace-centered programming The processes and methods explored in this book will help produce a sustainable makerspace that will help the museum or historic site that adopts it reach new audiences, creating growth and new museums stakeholders. Likewise, through calling for a recalibration of living history through the language of the makerspace, this project calls for new approaches to living history. Thus, it is a call for a disruption to the status quo and a push towards sustainable and meaningful living history.
Highlights include:
Why museums and makerspaces are a natural fit togetherWays to organize and create a makerspace in a museum of any budgetCreating a makerspace and culture of making that is inclusive and for the entirety of the communityStrategies for researching historic making techniques and adapting them to the modern worldCreating meaningful makerspace-centered programming The processes and methods explored in this book will help produce a sustainable makerspace that will help the museum or historic site that adopts it reach new audiences, creating growth and new museums stakeholders. Likewise, through calling for a recalibration of living history through the language of the makerspace, this project calls for new approaches to living history. Thus, it is a call for a disruption to the status quo and a push towards sustainable and meaningful living history.
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05/2023
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Tim Betz is a museum professional, historian, and artist. He is executive director of the Morgan Log House, a historical society in Lansdale, PA. He is an instructor of art history at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and is completing his PhD in history at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem PA.
He is particularly interested in historic processes and historic craft, which he uses as a tool for understanding the past.
He is particularly interested in historic processes and historic craft, which he uses as a tool for understanding the past.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Makerspaces and the Maker Movement
The Maker MovementA Genealogy of the Maker MovementA Place for Making: Makerspaces and HackerspacesCritiques of the Maker MovementThe Maker Movement and History MuseumsChapter 2: History and the Maker Movement
The Maker Movement at Historic SitesHistoric Making ManifestoThe Maker Movement and Living HistoryIf You Love It, Let it Go: Museums, Power, and MakingChapter 3: A Pedagogy of Museum Making
Just what is Pedagogy Anyway?Museum Education and Constructivist ThinkingMaking to Learn: the Makerspace and Museum EducationMeasuring Success in the Historic MakerspaceChapter 4: Making a Makerspace in Four (Somewhat Easy) Steps
AskingFundingLocatingMaintainingChapter 5: Putting the Makerspace to Work: Programming
Programming Your Historic MakerspaceProgramming Curiosity at Your MakerspaceThe Historical Makerspace and Regular ProgrammingWorkshopsMaker Programming Out of the MakerspaceThe Virtual Makerspace and Make From HomeChapter 6: Recreating the Past
Recreating the Past: a MethodologyA Hairy ExampleFriends in Historic PlacesChapter 7: Making as History
Experimental Archaeology and the Museum MakerspaceWhat Making Can Show UsProcess as Artifact: Interrogating Intangible Cultural HeritageWhere else but the Museum? Who else but Museum Professionals?Do!Appendices
Appendix A: Making and Your Site: Assessment WorksheetAppendix B: Your Mission and Your MakerspaceAppendix C: Historic Makerspace Sample BudgetAppendix D: Makerspace User AgreementAppendix E: InventoryAppendix F: Recipes and ProjectsWalnut InkVictorian Mourning JewelryEgg Tempera PaintOil Paint Appendix G: ProgramsDrop In WorkshopHistory Happy Hour
Introduction
Chapter 1: Makerspaces and the Maker Movement
The Maker MovementA Genealogy of the Maker MovementA Place for Making: Makerspaces and HackerspacesCritiques of the Maker MovementThe Maker Movement and History MuseumsChapter 2: History and the Maker Movement
The Maker Movement at Historic SitesHistoric Making ManifestoThe Maker Movement and Living HistoryIf You Love It, Let it Go: Museums, Power, and MakingChapter 3: A Pedagogy of Museum Making
Just what is Pedagogy Anyway?Museum Education and Constructivist ThinkingMaking to Learn: the Makerspace and Museum EducationMeasuring Success in the Historic MakerspaceChapter 4: Making a Makerspace in Four (Somewhat Easy) Steps
AskingFundingLocatingMaintainingChapter 5: Putting the Makerspace to Work: Programming
Programming Your Historic MakerspaceProgramming Curiosity at Your MakerspaceThe Historical Makerspace and Regular ProgrammingWorkshopsMaker Programming Out of the MakerspaceThe Virtual Makerspace and Make From HomeChapter 6: Recreating the Past
Recreating the Past: a MethodologyA Hairy ExampleFriends in Historic PlacesChapter 7: Making as History
Experimental Archaeology and the Museum MakerspaceWhat Making Can Show UsProcess as Artifact: Interrogating Intangible Cultural HeritageWhere else but the Museum? Who else but Museum Professionals?Do!Appendices
Appendix A: Making and Your Site: Assessment WorksheetAppendix B: Your Mission and Your MakerspaceAppendix C: Historic Makerspace Sample BudgetAppendix D: Makerspace User AgreementAppendix E: InventoryAppendix F: Recipes and ProjectsWalnut InkVictorian Mourning JewelryEgg Tempera PaintOil Paint Appendix G: ProgramsDrop In WorkshopHistory Happy Hour
