Key Concepts

Words to Know

Come Prepared

Teaching in the Exhibition

Explore Mythic Creatures with a Field Journal

Back in the Classroom

Map of the Exhibition

Connections to Other Museum Halls

Standards Correlations

Credits

Words to Know

Become familiar with the language of the exhibition

• culture: sum total of ways of living practiced by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another
  
  
• evidence: observations or other materials that support ideas, concepts, or scientific hypotheses
  
  
• hoax: something intended to deceive; fraud
  
  
• identity: the qualities and characteristics a person or group uses to describe who they are
  
  
• imagination: the ability to form images and ideas in the mind, especially things never seen or experienced directly
  
  
• interpret: to translate or explain
  
  
• legend: an unverifiable story handed down by tradition and popularly accepted as having some basis in history
  
  
• mythic: having supernatural or extraordinary qualities; often associated with traditional or legendary stories
  
  
• representation: the visible form of an idea or concept
  
  
• ritual: any practice or pattern of behavior repeated in a prescribed manner including but not restricted to religious rites
  
  
• stylize: to give something a distinctive artistic or cultural style
  
  
• symbol: a material object representing something visible or invisible; a characteristic mark used to represent something
  
  
• traits: distinguishing characteristics or qualities
  
  
• witness: to be present at an occurrence; a spectator or bystander