Using the Ethnographic Reserves of Museo Pumapungo to Teach the Public about the Living Cultures of Ecuador

Paiz, Victor; McEnaney, Macey; Pruitt, Emma

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Using the Ethnographic Reserves of Museo Pumapungo to Teach the Public about the Living Cultures of Ecuador

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Although there are almost 20 living indigenous cultures in Ecuador, not much is known about them by the public. Museo Pumapungo has thousands of cultural artifacts in their ethnographic reserve which they would like to make publicly available. The goal of this project was to create a website to teach people about the living cultures of Ecuador. Through interviews with museum staff, the people of the Saraguro culture, and observation of museum exhibits and existing digital archives, we determined the best methods of highlighting information about cultures. We developed a website prototype for Museo Pumapungo which displays an interactive map with the location of each culture, when clicked information about different aspects of the cultures with images from the reserves is displayed.

This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

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