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Anthropology 402 (Museum Studies & Technology): Digital Exhibits

Instruction guide for Anthropology 402 classes focusing on Museum Studies and technology.

Featured CSUF Projects: Digital Exhibits

Amanda Gorman Inaugural Poet

This digital exhibit was curated in Spring 2021 by Andrea Jackson, then a CSUF Cultural Anthropology Graduate Student and student assistant for the Pollak Library Exhibit Program. It is built on Adobe Express pages.

The "Amanda Gorman Inaugural Poet" digital exhibit home page

Routes and Roots of American Tourism and National Identity

This digital exhibit and interactive digital map was built by CSUF alumn David Wells for completion of his M.A. in History in 2020. Although the live project no longer exists in its original form, the project has been web archived by the Pollak Library University Archives & Special Collections using Archive-It. The website was created using a self-hosted instance of Omeka Classic. The digital exhibit was built using the Exhibit Builder plugin. The interactive mapping functionality was built with the Geolocation plugin, the Neatline plugin, and Map Warper to georeference images.

Home page to the web archived version of this project

Power in Identity

This 2024 immersive 3D digital exhibit was curated in 2024 by Yajaira Vilchis-Alvarez, an M.A. Student in Cultural Anthropology. She worked on this exhibition as a CSUF DEFCon (Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium) fellow. The 3D version of the physical exhibit – previously on display in the Teaching Museum in McCarthy Hall – was built using Matterport Digital Twins.

Opening view of the digital exhibit "Power in Identity".

Social Justice Through Procedural Fairness

CSUF students in Dr. Charles Cunha's Criminal Justice courses in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 researched different social justice themes in the criminal justice profession and worked in teams on the digital narratives that are part of Dr. Cunha's Social Justice Through Procedural Fairness digital exhibit project. Students in one of his Fall 2025 courses are adding to the digital exhibit. Students collaborated in small groups on the ArcGIS StoryMaps digital multimedia narratives, which are curated together into themes using ArcGIS StoryMaps Collections. Dr. Cunha uses an ArcGIS Hub website as a home page for the exhibit, with the thematic collections embedded in a Hub page.

StoryMaps Collection: "Social Justice Through Procedural Fairness"

The Zines to the Future! Exhibit

This interactive digital exhibit was curated by CSUF English Literature professor Dr. David Sandner in 2020. It is built on Adobe Express pages as a digital component to the physical exhibit Dr. Sandner and his team curated for the Pollak library.

The home page for the "Zines to the Future" digital exhibit.