Final Multimedia Presentation

Prompt

Imagine your community needs a new museum or cultural center. To help secure funding for the project, your organization asks you to create a video presentation to rally community support and attract potential investors. Reflect on the questions below:

What community and cultural needs are not met by existing museums and cultural centers?
What new museum might address these community and cultural needs?
Who might be interested in visiting the proposed museum?
How does the proposed museum differ from museums and cultural centers that already exist in the community?

Project Breakdown

In the final project for MST 5173, you will develop a multimedia video presentation about a museum you believe should be built. Students will work on the final project throughout the semester.

Unit 2 - Describe a museum you believe should be built
Unit 4 - Prepare an outline of your Final Multimedia Presentation
Unit 6 - Use MyMedia to share 5 preliminary PowerPoint slides for your final presentation
Unit 8 - Create half of the PowerPoint slides (at least 15) for your final presentation
Unit 10 - Create a full draft of all your PowerPoint slides (at least 30)
Unit 12 - Create a script to accompany the slides for your final presentation
Unit 15 - Use MyMedia to present and record your final presentation

If you have any questions about selecting your topic, please contact the instructor.

Other Topic-Related Resources

Read "10 Steps to Starting a Museum" by Museum Blogger.
Use the American Alliance of Museums website (or any other museum-related organization's website) for information, if needed.
Visit other museums (online or in person) like the one you want to build to get more ideas.

Read articles about other museums.
- The National Museum of African American History & Culture
- National Treasure, Special Delivery, a Mysterious Package Holds Long Lost Civil War Letters from a Young Soldier

Final Submission Content Guidelines

Provide an engaging and compelling video presentation that explains why the museum should be built.

Provide a minimum of 30 slides in the body of the presentation (including the cover slide and bibliography)
Include no more than 2 slides for the bibliography.
Incorporate at least 10 authoritative sources.
- Include at least 4 peer-reviewed sources. Textbooks may be counted as peer-reviewed.
- Use information from local, state, or national websites and government websites, if needed.
Below are some questions you may address in your Final Multimedia Presentation. You are not restricted to the questions below. But you must present a comprehensive and well-detailed proposal.
- What kind of museum would you build? Why?
- What is the mission of the museum?
- What will be the general collection development policy?
- What will be the size and design of the museum in general?
- Where will the museum be located?
- How will you involve the community in your project?
- How will you make the museum special-needs-friendly?
- Will you create a museum with an open-access policy for researchers and educators? Why or why not?
- How will the museum benefit the community?
- Why now? What makes you think that it is a good time to build?
- Why should investors give you their money?
- What are your plans to get funding besides asking the investors in front of you?
- How will the investors benefit from this venture?
- Do you have members for the board of directors yet?
- Do you have a 5-year business plan developed?

Assessment

Students will be assessed according to the grading rubric attached to the assignment. Use the rubric to maximize your score.

Sample Multimedia Presentation

Watch the archived sample below, which was created in a previous MST 5173 class, to get a general idea about what is expected in your Final Multimedia Presentation. The video is shared with the permission of the student.