This thesis examines the display of Navajo baskets and examines some of the possible meanings Navajo baskets can reveal. Acknowledging that the meaning of a work of art changes when it is placed in different environments, the thesis explores what meanings are revealed and what meanings are concealed in basket displays in three venues: the trading post, the natural history museum, and the fine art museum. The study concludes that the fine art museum has the most potential to foster a dialogue about the contemporary Navajo, whose identity is a product of continuity and change. Chapter one discusses the basket's connotation as one of continuity and change, a meaning essential to understanding the contemporary Navajo. It becomes clear that when looking for the meaning of tradition and adaptation, the institutional utterance of an exhibition venue must be one that allows a complex modern Navajo identity to emerge. Chapter two examines the institutional utterance of the trading post. In such a setting, meanings of a mythical past emerge from the basket. The environment of the trading post reveals a romantic view of the Old West that hides the meaning of the contemporary Navajo from patrons and viewers. Chapter three focuses on the natural history museum and the effects of its institutional utterance on the Navajo basket's significance. In this learning environment, the Navajo basket acts as an artifact and meanings emerge about Navajo ritual and history. However, natural history museums often educate audiences through means like curiosity cabinets and living history displays that distance the contemporary Navajo. It is the fine art museum that has the most potential to reveal the adaptive, contemporary Navajo, discussed in chapter four. Art museums validate baskets as art objects when they exhibit them with Western painting and sculpture. Such displays can hide the contemporary Navajo in a discussion of formal elements. However, when an art museum exhibits a basket as a meaningful object, it allows the basket to reveal the Dine's desire for cultural continuity and the long Navajo history of adapting to changing environments.

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The purpose of the study was to (1) identify pedagogical touring competencies needed by volunteer docents in art museums, (2) catalog the competency statements into major competency categories, (3) validate the list of competency statements, and (4) compare priority designations awarded each statement by the individuals within the two major subgroups: museum staff and volunteer docents. In conclusion, many of the needs represented by the highest ranking competencies in each category are seldom addressed in the traditional volunteer docent training program. This study showed that abilities to help the child feel comfortable in the museum and combinations of abilities to help the docent make judgments regarding the presentation of the material require attention and, at the very least , special training. It is recommended that training personnel in art museums identify the needs of volunteer trainees and design training programs less on traditional guidelines and more on the specific needs appropriate to the task.

Este trabalho tem como objeto o Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand MASP e sua inserção na cidade de São Paulo, nos primeiros 10 anos de atividade em sua primeira sede na rua Sete de Abril. O objetivo é compreender o Museu de Arte e sua inserção na cidade do ponto de vista da sua operatividade, como laboratório do moderno, através das diversas frentes de sua ação cultural propostas por Pietro Maria Bardi e Lina Bo Bardi na construção da identidade moderna do museu, contando com a colaboração de arquitetos e artistas estrangeiros. Pretende também identificar as relações existentes entre os discursos elaborados por seus criadores e o discurso dos arquitetos dentro do debate internacional em torno do papel dos museus e da arquitetura moderna nas cidades do pós-guerra, contexto em que se entende o projeto museológico proposto para o MASP inserido nas discussões internacionais relacionadas à renovação do papel dos museus na cidades. / The present thesis object of research is the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand MASP and its insertion in the city of São Paulo, during the period of the first 10 years of activities in its primary headquarters at Sete de Abril Street. The main goal of the study is to understand the Art Museum from the operative perspective, as a modern laboratory, throughout the several activities proposed by Pietro Maria Bardi and Lina Bo Bardi at the construction of a modern identity for the museum, counting with the collaboration of foreign architects and artists. Also aims to identify the existing relations between the speeches of its creators and the architect speeches within the international debate about the role of the museums and modern architecture at post war cities, context in which the musicological project proposed to MASP is comprehended inserted in the international discussions related to the reassessment of the role of museums in the cities.

Essa tese trata do perfil dos museus universitários - sua origem, desenvolvimento e perfil atual -, com ênfase para os museus de arte. Procura definir o que seria um museu universitário modelo e busca identificar o quanto desse modelo existe na prática. Descreve a formação e as características dos museus da Universidade de São Paulo e dos museus universitários de arte no Brasil. Analisa a coleção e o museu de arte da Universidade de São Paulo - Coleção de Artes Visuais do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros e Museu de Arte Contemporânea - diante do modelo proposto para museus universitários. E finalmente, discute a necessidade da Universidade de São Paulo possuir ou não essas coleções de arte. / This thesis addresses the profile of university museums - their origin, development and current profile– with emphasis on art museums. It attempts to define what a model university museum should be and to compare it to the existing situation. It describes the foundation and characteristics of the University of São Paulo museums and of university art museums in Brazil. It analyses the art collection and the University of São Paulo art museum - Visual Arts Collection of the Brazilian Studies Institute and the Contemporary Art Museum - in comparison to the university museum model proposed. And finally it discusses the need for those art collections in the University of São Paulo.

Este trabalho tem como objeto o Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand MASP e sua inserção na cidade de São Paulo, nos primeiros 10 anos de atividade em sua primeira sede na rua Sete de Abril. O objetivo é compreender o Museu de Arte e sua inserção na cidade do ponto de vista da sua operatividade, como laboratório do moderno, através das diversas frentes de sua ação cultural propostas por Pietro Maria Bardi e Lina Bo Bardi na construção da identidade moderna do museu, contando com a colaboração de arquitetos e artistas estrangeiros. Pretende também identificar as relações existentes entre os discursos elaborados por seus criadores e o discurso dos arquitetos dentro do debate internacional em torno do papel dos museus e da arquitetura moderna nas cidades do pós-guerra, contexto em que se entende o projeto museológico proposto para o MASP inserido nas discussões internacionais relacionadas à renovação do papel dos museus na cidades. / The present thesis object of research is the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand MASP and its insertion in the city of São Paulo, during the period of the first 10 years of activities in its primary headquarters at Sete de Abril Street. The main goal of the study is to understand the Art Museum from the operative perspective, as a modern laboratory, throughout the several activities proposed by Pietro Maria Bardi and Lina Bo Bardi at the construction of a modern identity for the museum, counting with the collaboration of foreign architects and artists. Also aims to identify the existing relations between the speeches of its creators and the architect speeches within the international debate about the role of the museums and modern architecture at post war cities, context in which the musicological project proposed to MASP is comprehended inserted in the international discussions related to the reassessment of the role of museums in the cities.