{"id":3444,"date":"2015-02-23T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:55:49","slug":"curate-an-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/categorisation\/curate-an-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Curate a Museum Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provide students with a range of images relating to the topic. They\u00a0imagine they are curating a museum exhibition on four separate walls. How will they categorise the images into four categories? How will they caption them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong>: Portraits of Napoleon, Stalin or other dictators with a penchant for propaganda. Images of the Middle Ages. Images relating to the British Empire (both positive and negative). Political cartoons about appeasement and Hitler&#8217;s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of the images may be deliberately obscure &#8211; students should place these to one side. In a second phase of the exercise, the teacher provides caption slips which have to be matched to each image prior to further thought being given to the exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Students could choose the images \/ images of artefacts themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Students could even construct the exhibition and place it in a public area, or design a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/museum-in-a-box\/\">Museum in a Box<\/a>&#8216;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3054\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/yr10_weimar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3054\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/yr10_weimar-300x225.png\" alt=\"Year 10 Historians designing an exhibition about the Weimar Republic\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Year 10 Historians designing an exhibition about the Weimar Republic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provide students with a range of images relating to the topic. They\u00a0imagine they are curating a museum exhibition on four separate walls. How will they categorise the images into four categories? How will they caption them? Examples: Portraits of Napoleon, Stalin or other dictators with a penchant for propaganda. Images of the Middle Ages. Images&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/categorisation\/curate-an-exhibition\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":3324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[189,199,200,212],"tags":[244,259],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3_Students_at_work.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Ty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}