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EXPLORING ECOTOURISM

World Museums

ART AND CULTURE FORUM

If you want to understand what makes a place tick, visit a museum.

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This resource guide reviews how the best museums orient visitors and engage locals.

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g An Open and Shut Case - Melissa Biggs
g Crossing the Eco-Cultural Divide - Alvin Rosenbaum
g Anthropology Guide
g Walk with the Weavers

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b World Museums Group
g Museo de Arte Popular (Mexico)
b Brooklyn Museum
b Goddess Mut
b Museos de Mexico
b Museo de Antropologia de Salta - Nfer
b National Museum of the American Indian - Melissa Biggs
b American Museum of Natural History - Melissa Biggs
b Museo Nacional de Antropologia - Melissa Biggs
g Mexico City Anthropology Museum - Ron Mader
b Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares - Melissa Biggs
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b Brooklyn Museum - Flickr
b Building an On-line Community at the Brooklyn Museum: A Timeline
b Graffiti Exhibit - Brooklyn Museum
b Brooklyn Museum

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

International Museum Day is celebrated around the world on May 18. The International Council of Museums has promoted the initiative since 1977.

AUSTRALIA

b National Museum of Australia
b National Gallery of Australia
b Nimbin
b Nimbin

NEW ZEALAND

b Our Space - Flickr

ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB

b National Museum of the American Indian
b Mint Museum of Art
b Hobo Museum (Iowa)
b Charles M. Schulz
b Bridge Museum Sarajevo
b Southwest Museum of the American Indian

DEFINITIONS

A museum is a 'permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education, enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.'
- International Council of Museums (ICOM)

A FEW WORDS ABOUT MUSEUMS AND MARKETS

Mexico's traditional markets link the present with the past and the future.

A friend leads first-time visitors through Mexico City's Anthropology Museum in Chapultepec Park. He purposefully stops at the maquetas (models) that depict markets held in the days before the arrival of the Spanish. Take a look, he says. There is a great diversity of products bartered, traded and sold.

A day or two later he takes his visitors to a traditional city market. What do you think the visitors see?

Markets provide a living connection to the past. They impart lessons that are both educational and nutritional.

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