Dr. Soanes' Odditorium of Wonders : the 19th century dime museum in a contemporary context

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dc.contributor.authorEdmundson, Jane
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Fine Arts
dc.contributor.supervisorMills, Josephine
dc.contributor.supervisorRamp, William
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T21:39:53Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T21:39:53Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptioniv, 60 leaves : ill. ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstract19th century dime museums were a North American phenomenon that flourished in urban centres from the mid- to late-1800s. Named thusly due to their low admission cost, dime museums provided democratic entertainment that was promoted to all classes as affordable and respectable. The resulting facilities were crammed with art, artifacts, rarities, living human curiosities, theatre performances, menageries, and technological marvels. The exhibition Dr. Soanes’ Odditorium of Wonders strives to recapture the spirit and aesthetic of the dime museum to invoke wonder in the viewer and to combine art, artifacts, and oddities to provoke questions about the boundary between education and amusement. Both the academic and curatorial texts utilize a mix of methodological approaches appropriate to museology, art history and cultural history: theoretical research into historiographical issues concerning theories of display and spectacle; archival research and discourse analysis of historical documents, and material culture analysis (including the semiotics of display).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3426
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquestyesNoen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Arts, c2013en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Arten_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Fine Arts)en_US
dc.subjectDime museumsen_US
dc.subjectMuseums -- Philosophyen_US
dc.subjectMuseums -- Educational aspectsen_US
dc.subjectMuseums -- Political aspectsen_US
dc.subjectMuseums -- Social aspectsen_US
dc.subjectMuseum exhibits -- Social aspectsen_US
dc.subjectMuseum exhibitis -- Political aspectsen_US
dc.subjectMuseum exhibits -- Educational aspectsen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleDr. Soanes' Odditorium of Wonders : the 19th century dime museum in a contemporary contexten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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