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The Teaching Museum at California State University, Fullerton


Ceramic bowls of the Sawos people of Papua New Guinea

 

v    Current Exhibit: The new exhibit, Ceramics of Sustenance: Elaborate Vessels of the Sawos, Papua New Guinea, opens Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm through June 2, 2008 in the Anthropology Teaching Museum (room 424) located in McCarthy Hall. All donations are welcome. Please click here for donations information.

Rare Bowl

A new Anthropology exhibit opened Tuesday night in the Anthropology teaching museum and showcases elaborately designed bowls. View online from the CSUF Daily Titan Multimedia.

 

Ceramics of Sustenance Ceramics of Sustenance
Ceramics of Sustenance

            The Teaching Museum is a 1,000-square-foot locked, alarmed and enclosed space located on the fourth floor of McCarthy Hall adjacent to the entrance to the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton.  Part of the $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation that resulted in completion of the Anthropology Research and Teaching Facility in 1998, the museum is equipped with standard professional museum exhibit cases with secure plexi-covers designed by Paul Johnson of the Bowers Museum Cultural Art. The walls are movable and anchored on tracks in the ceiling, and the lighting is standard museum track lighting utilizing professional low-heat, non-UV lamps.  The main door, a 600-pound sliding door that serves as the normal entrance into the gallery during the exhibit, faces the Anthropology reception desk and constitutes a striking welcome to visitors entering through the curved glass doors into the Anthropology Research and Teaching Facility.

v Past Exhibits include:

t Fall 2007: A World of Puppets: Expressions of Culture

t Spring 2006-January 2007: The Basket is in the Roots,” exploring the role of basket making in the lives of the Native peoples of Southern California, is a new exhibit at Cal State Fullerton. Curated by university students, the exhibit will run from March 6th, 2006 through January 2007 in the Anthropology Teaching Museum (room 424) located in McCarthy Hall. Click here to see pictures of the opening of the exhibit on March 3, 2006

t Spring 2005: Conquest of the Pacific: Society on the Sea

t Spring 2004: Resolving Conflict: Living and Dying in New Guinea

t Spring 2002-June 2003: Doing Curation: The Care of Archaeological and Paleontological Collections

t Spring 2000: Walking in Beauty: Timeless Arts of the American Southwest Indians

t Spring 1999: Armani, Amazonia, RuPaul, and Klein: Creating Identity