Assignment 2: Final Project Milestone 2

A City Museum: Permanent Exhibit

Recall that for the Final Project, you are the director of a museum and you must select a permanent exhibit for the museum. You are committed to ensuring that the objects, themes, and ideas in the exhibit represent all the important groups and peoples that have created your city’s identity.

In Final Project Milestone 2, you will consider the connection between group and ethnic identity and how that is represented in your city.

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, located in this week’s Learning Resources area for applicability to this Assignment.

Write a 300-word paper in which you do each of the following:

MUSEUM CONTENT

Here we begin to look at how this new museum will provide important resources to a variety of groups and ethnicities within your city. The city officials would like you to decide on an exciting permanent exhibit that is consistent with the chosen theme of your museum by:

1. Describing what you feel should become the most important permanent exhibit in your new museum.
2. Explaining how this permanent exhibit will use objects, themes, and ideas to represent the citizens who make up the city and/or will meet the needs of the city’s residents.

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