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The Marjorie Barrick Museum (MSM; formerly known as the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History) is a museum located on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), established in 1967.〔AASLH (2002, p.506); Danilov (2005, p.205)〕 The museum was originally instituted as a natural history museum with a focus on the natural history and environment of Nevada and the broader Southwestern United States.〔Taylor (2008)〕 In December 2011, the Barrick joined the UNLV College of Fine Arts and became the anchor of the Galleries at UNLV. The six galleries and one museum that make up the Galleries are each entities in their own right linked through a common administration. The Marjorie Barrick Museum (the Barrick), is a well-known venue for engaging exhibitions and events, and promotes engagement with the visual arts among a broad community including UNLV students, faculty, and staff; the greater Las Vegas community; and the national and international art community. ==History== The founding of a natural history museum at the university—then an institution only a decade old, known as Nevada Southern University〔The university was officially founded in 1957 as the Southern Division of the University of Nevada. The university's name was formally changed to UNLV in 1969.〕—began with a collection of specimens from the Desert Research Institute (DRI), the Nevada System of Higher Education's graduate research institute. In September 1967, the DRI opened a small museum facility in premises across from the university's grounds, as part of an expansion of DRI's activities into southern Nevada. The museum was created under the direction of archaeologist Richard H. Brooks, assistant research professor at the university and a researcher (later director) of the DRI-affiliated Nevada Archaeological Survey. Its exhibits consisted of DRI's local collection of living desert animal specimens and Native American artifacts.〔Mikkelsen (2001); Slaughter (2007, p.2)〕 In 1969 the university took over the management of the museum from DRI.〔Mikkelsen (2001)〕 Brooks remained as director of the university-affiliated museum, and during his tenure the museum's funding was established and further permanent exhibits acquired.〔Slaughter (2007, p.2)〕 The most significant acquisition occurred in 1979, when a private collection of pre-Columbian art was donated by a former UNLV alumna, Mannetta Braunstein, and her husband Michael. These pieces would form the basis of a broadening collection of Mesoamerican and Aridoamerican cultural artifacts, acquired through other donations and further additions from the Braunsteins' purchases in Latin American markets.〔UNLV Foundation (n.d.)〕 In the late 1970s the museum began the process of relocating to premises situated on the UNLV campus, to occupy a building that had contained the university's original gymnasium. Renovations to accommodate the museum were completed in 1981. Further alterations and expansions to the building were subsequently undertaken, and a research laboratory wing was added in 1994.〔 Beginning in 1979 the museum's anthropological collections were greatly expanded, with the subsequent additions of donated collections of ethnographic and archaeological artifacts representing Native American and pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. Brooks left the position in 1981.〔 His successor as museum director was ornithologist and former UNLV president (1973–78) Donald Baepler, who was returning to the university campus after a three-year term as chancellor of the Nevada university system.〔Moehring (2007, p.92); Mower & Wills (2008)〕 Baepler was instrumental in establishing UNLV's Harry Reid Environmental Research Center, and the museum was reorganized to became one of the center's operating divisions. Baepler retired as museum director in 2004, retained a title as emeritus executive director of the museum.〔Mower & Wills (2008)〕 In 1989 the museum was renamed in honor of Marjorie Barrick, a longstanding benefactor of the university.〔Moehring (2007, p.89); Mower (2007)〕 In 1980 Barrick, a former showgirl and prominent philanthropist married to a Las Vegas real estate developer, had gifted UNLV with an endowment of some $1.2million from her late husband's estate, to fund an ongoing series of public lectures at the university. Speakers at the Barrick Lecture Series have included international figures and heads of state, such as Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Mikhail Gorbachev and F. W. de Klerk.〔Danilov (2005, p.205); Moehring (2007, pp.99,129); Mower (2007)〕 In 2011, the Barrick closed its doors to undergo a change of hands with departments as well as begin remodeling of the museum. The Marjorie Barrick ceased to be affiliated with the Harry Reid Center and Department of Archaeology and is now a part of the College of Fine Arts at UNLV. The entire museum underwent drastic renovations, from its Collections Room〔https://barrickmuseum.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/theres-something-going-on-at-the-barrick/〕 to the Exhibition Hall, which changed how the public is able to interact with the space from piece to piece. After the Las Vegas Art Museum (or LVAM) closed its doors in 2009, their collection was left without a home. In 2012 the LVAM collection moved to the newly renovated Barrick Museum, as part of a partnership between LVAM and UNLV.〔https://www.unlv.edu/barrickmuseum/collections〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marjorie Barrick Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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