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Date(s) - 04/08/2021
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Thirsty for knowledge? Enjoy happy hour in your own home with one of our Museum’s awesome specialists. Living Room Lectures deliver social interaction with educational elements, and everyone is welcome. Cheers!
How do our cultural lenses affect our understanding of science? What role do museums play in creating, upholding, or questioning these lenses? Join Lizzie Oakley, an Anthropology Ph.D. candidate, as she explores these questions. Lizzie will discuss the potential of museum exhibits to challenge misconceptions about the nature of science that exist in broader cultural beliefs. She will dig into the role that anthropology can play in museum science exhibits, and examine how science and anthropology are currently represented in museums. She’ll also share how museums reflect cultural viewpoints back to their visitors through interpretative methods, such as the objects on display, labels, and more.