Museum Report Assignment
The Museum Report is one of the summative assessments in this course; it is worth 15% of your overall grade. The report is intended to encourage you to engage with art in-person and in a real life setting. Museums are assets in our communities providing opportunities for personal enrichment that you should be aware and know how to access. I hope you enjoy learning about Museums as you work on this report.
ONLINE ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM REPORT INSTRUCTIONS
The Online Alternative Museum Report is designed to investigate the history of individual museums, their impact on culture, and how you find connections to some artworks in their collections. Submit the online alternative report to the same assignment dropbox (below) as the normal assignment, and observe the same due date.
To complete the Online Alternative Museum Report, there are very specific instructions; for full credit you need to follow them closely. Please take the time to review them carefully. The link to the instructions is here: Online Museum Report.
Online Alternative Museum Report
Alternative Online Museum Report
ASSIGNMENT FORMAT: FILE UPLOAD
You must upload a document in the correct file format for this assignment. This assignment should be written in a word processing system, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. To upload it to the assignment dropbox, please saved the document as a Word document (file extension = .doc or .docx) or a PDF (most word processing systems will allow you to use the “save as” feature to save the file in the .doc, .docs, or .pdf format). Do Not use the following file types, (they will not be visible in Canvas and I will not be able to download or access them): .pages / .zip / or a url link to an online document).
OBJECTIVES
Identify the history and cultural context of current art museums.
Engage in self-guided exploration of the Visual Arts, and art objects as a form of cultural and social expression.
Analyze the Content, Form and Context of artworks from the selected museum, according to the concepts and vocabulary learned in this course.
INSTRUCTIONS:
For the museum report, Choose from one of the art museums listed below. Write a review of the museum covering the points below. Please start each section of your essay with the question you are answering (for an example, please see the sample file below)
Question 1: What is the history of the Museum?
To answer this section, look for information such as the following:
Where did the collection come from, how and why did it come together in this museum?
Why is it located where it is?
Question 2: What kind of artworks do they collect?
To answer this section, look for information such as the following:
how do they organize their collection?
How do they describe the different areas of their collection?
Is there any explanation of why they focus on those types of artworks?
Question 3: What artworks from the museum are the most popular, or most famous?
To answer this section, look for information such as the following:
look for a “highlights” or “featured” section on their website
Question 4: What Artworks Do I connect With?
To answer this question, choose 5 artworks from the museum you feel connected to because of something you learned in class. To discuss them more in-depth please address the following:
list each artwork in a separate paragraph. Begin the paragraph by identifying the artist, title, and date of creation for the artwork as the first line of the paragraph.
In one or two sentences, explain how and why you feel personally connected to this artwork (for example, what caught your attention and drew you in).
For the rest of the paragraph, explain a direct connection to something you learned in this class about Content, Form, Context, or Interpretation. This needs to be more than just a of the artwork, this should explicitly point out connections between some specific aspect of the artwork to something specifically learned about Content, Form, Context, or interpretation, and use vocabulary from the analysis worksheets.
Use the worksheets below and Teacher Notes to identify the concepts and vocabulary in Content, Form Context and/or interpretation that you should apply here.
Note: You should write about 5 pages. If you find you cannot write 5 pages about one museum, you can answer the above questions for a second museum. There is more information about the format below:
List of Museums
Please investigate the following museum websites to complete the questions above. If you wish to report on a different museum please get clearance in advance.
Musee D’Orsay, ParisLinks to an external site.
Louvre, ParisLinks to an external site.
Chicago Art InstituteLinks to an external site.
The Prado, MadridLinks to an external site.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYLinks to an external site.
The Museum of Modern Art, NYLinks to an external site.
The Norton Simon MuseumLinks to an external site.
The Getty Center/ Getty VillaLinks to an external site.
the Philadelphia Museum of ArtLinks to an external site.
The Boston Museum of Fine ArtsLinks to an external site.
Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumLinks to an external site.
Requirements, Scoring, and Assessment
SCORING:
This assignment is worth up to 100 points based on length. Properly formatted, well written, and correctly completed papers will receive 20 points for each full page of text, up to 100 points maximum. For more information see the rubric located in the assignment dropbox.
TURNING IN YOUR PAPER:
Please use the same assignment dropbox as you would use for the regular Museum Report. You can find the dropbox in the Assignments tab in the course menu, or in the weekly modules.
REQUIRED PAPER FORMAT:
For full credit, papers MUST include the following:
List your name, CRN, and name of the museum and the title Alternative Museum Report in a single line at the top of the first page only.
Do not start a new page for each artwork discussed, just continue the next paragraph without a page break.
Use 12 pt. type, double-space, and 1 inch Margins, saved in PDF or Word format (see format example below)
use a normal font type, such as Times New Roman or Arial. Do not use expanded fonts or bold formatting to increase the paper length.
Use normal paragraph style; do not use outline formats, automatic numbering features, or bullet points.
There should be no extra spaces between paragraphs. When you complete a paragraph, hit “enter” only once, to start a new paragraph. Do not include excessive spaces.
Only the first line of each paragraph should be indented, do not indent whole paragraphs.
Please start each section of your essay with the question you are answering (see format example below)
Submit only one file for your report. If you write about 2 museums, include both in the same file.
DO NOT the following file types: .pages / .zip / or url link to an online document
All photographs should be added at the end of the paper. Do not include photographs as part of your text. Photographs do not count as part of the 5 pages total.
Limit quoting other sources: I prefer that you take what you have learned and put it into your own words. Quoting is sometimes acceptable, but please limit your quotations, and strive to translate new information into your own words. (see “Citing Your Sources” section below for more information)
All quotations from online sources must be cited appropriately: please see the “Citing your Sources” section below.
If you use citations please include them at the end of the report, or on a separate page. Citations do not count as part of the 5 pages total.
Must be turned in on or before the due date in the correct assignment dropbox. Late papers will not receive more than ½ credit.
Here is a visual sample of correct and incorrect formatting (click on the arrow icon next to the title to preview or download): Sample Format for Online Alternative Museum Report
Actions
NOTE: USE ONLY MS WORD COMPATIBLE DOCUMENTS OR A PDF. DO NOT ATTACH A “GOOGLE DOCS” LINK, A “.ZIP” FILE OR “.PAGES” DOCUMENT. Here are my recommendations for text editing software: Writing Resources (Links to an external site.)
Avoid Plagiarism!
The paper is about your thoughts, your curiosity, and your experience. I have already read and am not interested in re-reading what has already been written about these places. I am interested only in your own impressions in your own words. Please read and understand the following Ventura College policies that define plagiarism and avoid plagiarism in your own paper.
Plagiarism: as defined by Ventura College:
Plagiarism is the act of presenting someone elses work as ones own. Examples include:
Copying and pasting text from websites or other electronic sources and presenting it in an assignment as your own original work.
Copying and pasting text from printed sources (including books, magazines, encyclopedias or newspapers) and presenting it in an assignment as your own original work.
Using another students work and claiming it as your own original work (even if you have the permission of the other student).
please review the full Academic Dishonesty policy of Ventura College here: Academic Dishonesty PolicyLinks to an external site..
CITE YOUR SOURCES:
It is very important that, if you choose to quote the words of others, that you give them proper credit for their intellectual products. In the world of academia, there are guidelines on how to give credit to your sources, this is called “citing” your sources, and when you include it in your report, it is called a “citation.” A citation has two important parts to it:
Acknowledge what you used:
if you copy any of the wording exactly, you need to use quotation marks (“”) around the wording to acknowledge that they are not your words; these are called direct quotes.
if you use the observations and ideas from your source, even if you rewrite it or put to put it into your own words, you need to point out that you used someone else’s ideas or observations. If you point out an observation or idea that is not your own, you need to point out where it came from.
Acknowledge where it came from:
give credit to the website, book, and/or author where your observations, ideas, or direct quotes came from by including a list at the end of the paper, or an inline citation.
There are many different styles for how to do a citation properly. For this kind of paper I like the MLA style. The link below is a good site for simple directions on how to create a proper MLA citation, Since you are probably using online sources to write this report, I suggest that you scroll down to the section “Citing Online Articles with no Author or Date” for guidance on how to create your citations. Link: MLA Citations.Links to an external site.
If you would like a more in-depth tutorial on MLA citation style, here is another good resource: Link: Purdue Writing LabLinks to an external site.
Please keep in mind that the instruction above (see “Required Paper Format”) ask that you limit quotations from other sources. I much prefer that you put things in your own words.
DON’T OVERUSE CITATIONS
While you might find interesting information on websites or books, the whole idea of this assignment is for you to make your own observations. If you are authentically making your own observations, then you will not need to make many citations. I am much more interested in what you have noticed from looking yourself, not what you find that other people have noticed. For that reason, please pay attention to your plagiarism score (described below).
PLAGIARISM DETECTION
Your submission will be submitted through plagiarism detection software, so please be careful to submit only your own original work. The detection software will generate a report and show a percentage of how much of the paper is not your own work. Taking into account cited quotations and artwork identifications, your plagiarism percentage score should be under 10%.
Resources:
Use these worksheets as needed to make connections between your chosen artworks and the analysis of Content, Form, Context using the appropriate vocabulary:
Analysis Worksheet: Content
Analysis Worksheet: Form
Analysis Worksheet: Context
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