Humanities Profiled: Barbara Franco and the City Museum

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Title

Humanities Profiled: Barbara Franco and the City Museum

Subject

Museums.
History
Local History Museum education.

Description

E. Ethelbert Miller interviews Barbara Franco, the Executive Director of the Historical Society of Washington, DC.

She talks about the establishment of the City Museum. She discusses the history and original purpose of the Carnegie Library building, and how the museum will attract an audience.

Franco also discusses the museum field and the advanced interpretation techniques of the Holocaust Museum in DC and the Smithsonian Native American Indian Museum.

Franco gives a brief institutional history of the Historical Society of Washington, DC, comparing its development to other city and state historical societies in the U.S.

The footage is unedited. Several still images are shown at the end of the reel.

Creator

Humanities Council of Washington DC

Source

Program - Humanities Profile

Publisher

Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Date

2001
9-20-2001

Rights

Copyright 2001 Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Format

VHS
.mpg

Language

English

Type

Video

Identifier

06.P.2001
37

Coverage

Washington, DC
Ward 2
Mt. Vernon Square

Moving Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

VHS

Duration

00:35:59

Compression

.mpg

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