City Museum

A City Museum: Focus

Recall that for the Final Project, you are the director of a museum and you must select a focus for

the museum. When thinking about the appeal of a museum, you must think in terms of who will

visit it and what it will mean to those

visitors. Your audience will be mainly residents of the very

city that you celebrate but, in order to be successful, your museum will also need to attract

visitors from all over the world. How can you appeal to a worldwide audience?

In Final Project Milest

one 1, you first select the museum's focus. Then, you apply a wider, global

lens to that choice.

To prepare for this Assignment:

·

Review the “Final Project Summary” document in the Week 1 Learning Resources area.

·

Review the resources you chose using the gui

delines provided in the “Student

Contributed Resource Worksheet” document in this week’s Learning Resources area for

applicability to this Assignment.

The Assignment:

Write a

250

-

word

proposal in which you do each of the following:

·

State the museum focus

that you will use for your Final Project. Recall that the choices

are:

o

Industry and Commerce

o

History and Natural History

o

Science and Technology

o

Arts and Culture

·

Explain why this focus is important to, and evident in, your city.

M

y

city

is Camden

A

labama

·

Explain how this focus wou

ld be relevant to a visitor from another global city.

A City Museum: Focus

Recall that for the Final Project, you are the director of a museum and you must select a focus for

the museum. When thinking about the appeal of a museum, you must think in terms of who will

visit it and what it will mean to those visitors. Your audience will be mainly residents of the very

city that you celebrate but, in order to be successful, your museum will also need to attract

visitors from all over the world. How can you appeal to a worldwide audience?

In Final Project Milestone 1, you first select the museum's focus. Then, you apply a wider, global

lens to that choice.

To prepare for this Assignment:

 Review the “Final Project Summary” document in the Week 1 Learning Resources area.

 Review the resources you chose using the guidelines provided in the “Student

Contributed Resource Worksheet” document in this week’s Learning Resources area for

applicability to this Assignment.

The Assignment:

Write a 250-word proposal in which you do each of the following:

 State the museum focus that you will use for your Final Project. Recall that the choices

are:

o Industry and Commerce

o History and Natural History

o Science and Technology

o Arts and Culture

 Explain why this focus is important to, and evident in, your city. My city is Camden

Alabama

 Explain how this focus would be relevant to a visitor from another global city.