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Innovative Niche Scientists: Women's Role in Reframing North American Museums, 1880--1930 (2013)

Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 55, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 153-174

DOI: 10.1111/1600-0498.12017

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue “Beyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge”
Language: English

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Museums Women in science Science education and teaching Science and gender 19th century 20th century, early United States Griffin, Delia I. Bragg, Laura Mary Gallup, Anna Billings

Women educators played an essential role in transforming public museums that had been focused on collections and research into effective educational and informational sites that engaged broad publics. Three significant innovators were Delia Griffin of St. Johnsbury Museum in Vermont who emphasized hands-on learning, Anna Billings Gallup who shaped a distinctive model museum for children in Brooklyn and Laura Bragg of the charleston Museum who established strong collaboration with the local public schools. Joining museum curatorial staffs and professional associations that were largely male, these women educators and their peers typically provided pedagogical insights and teaching skills that enabled them to work effectively with school systems, teachers, pupils and parents. Genuinely interested in natural science, they shaped careers which included opportunities to engage with science, provided a considerable degree of autonomy and enabled them to experiment with hands-on learning. They built networks of museum educators and influenced the young American Association of Museums. Women museum educators created a bridge between semi-public natural history establishments for collection, preservation and scientific research and an active audience of teachers, pupils, visitors and patrons. Their efforts transformed museums into sites for education and broad public access to science in the early 20th century.

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Description On the museum education work of Delia Griffin, Anna Billings Gallup, and Laura Bragg.

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Essay Review Maria Elvira Callapez; Vanessa Silva (2014) 'Beyond the Academy – Histories of Gender and Knowledge'. Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 166-172). unapi

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Article Oertzen, Christine von; Rentetzi, Maria; Watkins, Elizabeth S. (2013) Finding Science in Surprising Places: Gender and the Geography of Scientific Knowledge. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 73-80). unapi

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