2007B FRQ #1

Post date: Apr 29, 2013 8:25:20 PM

1. The following prompt is based on the accompanying six sources.

Introduction: Museums are collections of artifacts. Although museums can represent interests from fine arts to whaling, people who visit museums sometimes fail to realize that every exhibit, every display case, represents a series of human decisions: some individual or group of individuals has to decided to include a particular piece of art or specific artifact in the museum's collection. 

Assignment: Read the following sources (including the introductory information) carefully. Then write an essay in which you develop a position on the most important considerations facing the person responsible for securing a new work of art or an artifact for a museum. Synthesize at least three of the sources for support. 

To read the sources for this synthesis essay, click the following link: 2007B FRQ