Exam 1

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Museology

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Study of museums

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What is a museum?

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A permanent, public, educational institution which cares for collections systematically

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Museography

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Body of techniques

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Mouseion

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Temple dedicated to the muses. A place of the muses. Look upon beauty, discuss ideas with others, experiment with natural phenomenon and to be amused

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Cabinets of couriosities

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Private collectors displays. Encyclopedic

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World fairs

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Reflected and generated a public interest in science, art, and in visiting exhibitions

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Ethics?

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How people treat one another everyday

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Consequential ethics

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Outcomes determine the morality of the act. Times when is is legitimate to lie

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Egoism

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Act in own self interest; consequential ethic

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Pragmatism

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Whatever works; consequential ethics

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Utilitarianism

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The greatest amount of good for the greatest number of ppl.; consequential ethics

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Non-consequential ethics

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Morality comes from something else. Consider these before you think of consequences

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Teleological

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Judges rightness of action in terms of external goal or purpose; non-consequential ethics

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Deontogical

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Feature within actions themselves determine if they are right; non-consequential ethics

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This is the group of staff responsible for the care, interpretation and acquisition of the colllections.

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Back of the house

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The museum department responsible for the installation of traveling exhibitions.

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The exhibits dept.

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Social media and web site development are the responsible of this department

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The public affairs dept

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This is the staff position that selects, preserves, and makes available primary sources

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The archivist

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This staff position is the functional manager of an area and responsible for the intellectual control of the collections.

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The Curator with the big C

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These are organizations whose governance is vested in a board of trustees

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Nonprofit

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This is the legal obligation to exercise your powers in order to benefit another

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Fiduciary relationship

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It’s purpose was to help harmonize and modernize laws governing non profits

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The revised model nonprofit corporation act

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This is the knowledgeable monitoring of the organization’s administers

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Informed oversight

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The obligation to disclose any conflict of interest is one of these which were established by the sibley hospital case ruling

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Severe obligation

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Rules that establish the lowest acceptable standards for citizens

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Laws

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A theory

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A body of assumptions

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It's primary purpose is to raise the level of professional practice and establish "best practices"

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Code of ethics

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These represent an amplification of professional norms and are beyond what must be done for minimal results

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Best practices

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Because museum codes of ethics cross social and political boundaries and deal with issues that are profession-wide, they are often referred to as.

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Professio-centric

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The place of muses

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Mouseion

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An exhibition area for pictures and sculpture

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Gallery

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These reflected and generated a public interest in science, Art, and in visiting exhibitions

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World fairs

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Botanical gardens, zoos, and aquariums can be considered museums with these types of objects

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Fungible objects

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All objects collected at a single time from a single source

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Accession

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School of thought that asserts that the outcomes determine the mortality of the act

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Consequential ethics

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Acting in your own self interest

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Egoism

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First proposed by Aristotle, this school of thought stresses that mortality is a learned behavior

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Virtue or character ethics

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Also known as the golden rule, this principle states that the maxim is right if one would want to be treated that way themselves

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Principle of reversibility

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This ethical system bases right or wrong on divine authority and religious belief

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Divine command ethics

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Based on the work of Joseph fletcher, this school of thought instructs its adherents to "do the loving thing"

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Situation ethics

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A set of objects forming a meaningful whole

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A collection

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Because objects in museum collections have been removed from their original context, they referred to as this

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Recontextualized objects

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Collecting in which the staff makes a significant effort to acquire objects in keeping with its collecting agenda

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Active collecting

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A gift in all but legal title

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Permanent loan

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The possession of right of ownership

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Legal title

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The position in the museum that answers directly to the board of trustees

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Director

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The person is who often the ambassador representing the museum to the public

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Curator

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The person responsible for maintaining object records

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Registrar

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Volunteer guides

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Docent

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An individual who consciously acts and can therefore be held responsible for his/her actions

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Moral agent

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Legal recognition of the special rights of a creator

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Copyright

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The law passed in 1990 mandating the return of human remains to culturally affiliated tribes

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Native American graves protection and repatriation act. (Nagpra)

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The act passed in 1990 that attempt to establish legal standing for the concept of droit moral

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Visual artist rights act (vara)

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The endangered species act and the bald and golden eagle protection act are two examples of this

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Laws protecting plants and wildlife that affect the quality of museum title

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The way that donors can affect the quality of the museums title

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Restricted gifts

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On the positive side, it is said to promote connoisseurship and enhance professional knowledge

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Personal collecting

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Generally considered a conflict of interest and the IRS will not accept these professional assessments

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Object appraisals

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Generally viewed as a conflict of interest, often these an only be accepted if they are of normal value

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Gifts

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This is how trustees deal with conflicts of interest

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Disclosure

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The legal duty that forbids engaging in conflicts of interest for a museum trustee

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Duty I loyalty

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A tracking number that is assigned to an object

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Catalog number

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Anything produced or shaped by humans

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Artifact

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An assemblage of objects for educational or aesthetical purposes

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Exhibition

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Private collectors displays of their objects which started during the renaissance and continued throughout the 19th century

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Cabinet of curiosities

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The act of taking care of the collections

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Conservation