Negotiating the transformation of a workspace into a classroom and museum at James Madison's Montpelier
Author(s): Katherine E Seeber
Year: 2013
Summary
James Madison’s Montpelier is the plantation home of the forth president of the United States, and author of the U.S. Constitution. The historic home is located in the Piedmont Region of Virginia, and has had an archaeology program since 1985. Throughout the years, like any department it underwent a multitude of changes from the beginning to present. However, for the last several years we have employed a vigorous public archaeology program educating all ranges of people from archaeology students, to retired adults, and families. This paper shall address the positive and negative consequences that are inevitably hatched when a program such as our must transform our workspaces (primarily the laboratory) continuously from full-scale archaeology lab, to classroom, to museum space and back again.
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Negotiating the transformation of a workspace into a classroom and museum at James Madison's Montpelier. Katherine E Seeber. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428745)
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Keywords
General
Public Archaeology
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Public Workspace
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transformation
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Contemporary
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 468