Field House Museum

Click through the hotspots to learn about important parts of an exhibit. While you explore think about exhibits you have seen and if they have these element? Are there any elements here that you think shouldn't be considered essential? Are there any elements you think are missing?

What's in an exhibit?

Using this template create a descriptive label for an object. Consider what you might want to make an exhibit about. What kind of objects would you include in your exhibit? What research might you need to do about your object to interpret it?

Create Your Own Label

Parts of a Label

How does presenting different information change how the viewer sees an object?

Comparing Interpretations

Students will explore how museums tell different stories with the same objects, and how to tell their own stories with objects.

Educator Overview Telling Stories with Objects.pdf

Telling Stories With Objects

Reading: Informational Texts

English Language Arts

Careers

Careers in Museums

The next two slides are labels for this object. While you read think about how they are different. What do you think the exhibit that each of these labels are in is about? Think about what aspects of this object make it important.

What aspect of the toy does this label focus on? What might an exhibit that includes this label be about? What does the label make you think about? What kind of research would be needed to make this label?

Resource Kits

Object Library

Museums

Telling Stories With Objects

Comparing Interpretations

Background Knowledge

Wind-Up Figure