Week 2 Proposal:Information for lower income people in museums

 Museums have a difficult role in society. They have to provide information to a wide variety of people, including disabled, less educated, and even people that speak different languages. While some museums have made strides towards improving on these factors, it seems overall there are areas that could be improved. For example, museums have to make information available to those with less educational backgrounds than the people who discovered the information. This means the researchers have to either remove more complicated pieces of information or put the research into simpler terms, which can lead to people taking museum information out of context. For my research proposal, I'm interested to see how museums decide how to best represent information for people with less education. Do museums provide enough context with the rest of the exhibit? Does the added context for the museum matter, or will people take things out of context regardless? And does the context removed depend on the museum?

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