Crossroads of Continents * RFD Alaska

该提案要求支持举办关于土著人民的展览 阿拉斯加和西伯利亚的文化，前往土著和非土著 阿拉斯加农村的土著社区。 展览由 来自西伯利亚和阿拉斯加的200件小型手工艺品 考古和人种学博物馆收藏，档案 照片，本土工艺和传统艺术，世纪 图形艺术和视频。 课程包和 将制作教育材料和录像， 展览场地。 这些教学材料， 包括一个展览目录，将被设计为 “独立”组件也是如此。 史密森尼北极研究中心选择了 “Crossroads of Continents *RFD Alaska”作为原型 该项目将导致建立标准， 以博物馆为基础的教育推广计划， 农村地区的社区， 博物馆通常不存在。 这一目标尤其 在阿拉斯加具有挑战性，距离很远，人口 中心很小，而且有独特的问题， 交通、通信、安全和语言将成为 克服 该项目是一个理想的一个在这一大部分的基本 展览的研究工作已经完成。 现在需要的是发展本土教育 与核心方案配套的地方举措 展览，并制作展览和展览 分类. 一旦开发出来，这个项目的经验 不仅将指导阿拉斯加的未来计划， 也遍布北极圈

This proposal requests support for an exhibition on Native cultures of Alaska and Siberia for travel to Native and non- Native communities in rural Alaska. The exhibition consists of 200 small artifacts from Siberian and Alaskan archeological and ethnographic museum collections, archival photographs, Native craft and traditional arts, 20th century graphic arts, and videos. Curriculum packets and educational materials and videos will be prepared for use in the exhibition venues. These instructional materials, including an exhibit catalogue, will be designed to serve as "stand-alone" components as well. The Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center has selected "Crossroads of Continents *RFD Alaska" as a prototype project that will lead toward establishing standards for museum-based educational outreach programs for use in native communities in rural regions where professionally staffed museums usually do not exist. This goal is especially challenging in Alaska, where distances are great, population centers are small, and there are unique problems of transportation, communication, security, and language to be overcome. The project is an ideal one in that much of the basic research for the exhibition has already been accomplished. What is needed now is to develop a Native education component and local initiatives to accompany the core exhibit, and to produce the exhibition and the exhibition catalogue. Once developed, the experience of this project will serve to guide future programs not only in Alaska, but also throughout the Circumpolar North.