Type of Document	Thesis
Author	O'Donnell, Shannon Kathleen
Author's Email Address	sko04d@fsu.edu
URN	etd-04132009-215023
Title	Junior Grows Up: The Development of the Tallahassee Museum, 1957-1992
Degree	Master of Arts
Department	History, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Jennifer Koslow Committee Chair Heike Schmidt Committee Member Pat Villeneuve Committee Member
Keywords	Junior Museums Tallahassee Museums
Date of Defense	2009-03-18
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis analyzes the history of the junior museum movement in the United States by specifically examining the Tallahassee Museum in Florida. The Tallahassee Junior Museum was founded in 1957 to provide interactive education in natural history to school age children. In 1992 the Tallahassee Museum removed ―Junior‖ from its name, signifying a change in mission and audiences. The name rebranding marked the end of the junior museum trend. Junior museums are underrepresented in the historiography of museum studies, and this thesis aims to contribute to this literature by filling this gap through the use of archival documents, oral histories, and various secondary sources. Studying the development of the Tallahassee Museum also shows how changes in museum theory affected the practices of the institution.
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