Louis, with graphics and visuals that overlap in continuous motion.Īll three museums share a mainpage which enables the visitor to then virtually enter each museum’s site and explore the ways in which the individual collections link to (or relate to) one another. Decker-Franklin worked closely with designers Allan Smith and Tom Kavanaugh of Triune Communications to make the UMC’s new website symbolic of the way artifacts, stories and individuals overlap in St. Louis area resident, with a stellar background in multiple arts and decades-long experience integrating learning with the arts, this Urban Museum Collaborative takes an innovative, very hands-on approach to the dissemination of history by way of specific artifacts within the museums’ collections.
Spearheaded by Barbara Decker AKA Barbara Decker-Franklin, who grew up in the East but is a long-time St.
Thus, The Eugene Field House Museum, The Campbell House Museum and The Griot Museum of Black History have become partners in a dramatic new program to better share their collections with groups of all ages – from young children to adults – and thereby “unleash their potential for playing more active roles in the St. Louis museums whose focuses overlap in important ways and to make them better known and more accessible to the public. The Urban Museum Collaborative (UMC), which was launched in 2009 under the auspices of the Missouri Humanities Council and debuted to the public during the month of October this year, aims to facilitate a sharing of the treasures and knowledge of three, specialized, downtown St.
Which makes the concept of linking separate museums together as a virtual “museum without walls” not only reasonable but very exciting. History is always personal (being the story of someone or some group) and to the great extent that people interact, sometimes their stories in a given place overlap and our understanding of that place deepens as we perceive these relationships. The history of any place is as broad as the land and water that cover it and as varied and multi-layered as the humans who have impacted it.
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