Classes

Art History 194: The Innovations of World-Class Museums: The Guggenheim, the Smithsonian, and Beyond

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2017
Today’s great museums are breaking out of traditional paradigms, reinventing their institutions for the 21st century and beyond. They are modernizing and innovating from exhibitions, to collections, and even architecture. In this course, we will “visit” one of these grand institutions each week, exploring some of its most exciting and controversial projects. For example, we will study how the British Museum is embracing globalization and leading an information revolution via its online interactive Museum of the World partnership with Google Cultural Institute. We will look at the Guggenheim's... Read more about Art History 194: The Innovations of World-Class Museums: The Guggenheim, the Smithsonian, and Beyond

ARCHLGY 134/234: Museum Cultures: Material Representation in the Past and Present

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2015

Students will open the "black box" of museums to consider the past and present roles of institutional collections, culminating in a student-curated exhibition. Today, museums assert their relevance as dynamic spaces for debate and learning. Colonialism and restitution, the politics of representation, human/object relationships, and changing frameworks of authority make museum work widely significant and consistently challenging. Through thinking-in-practice, this course reflexively explores "museum cultures": representations of "self" and "other" within museums and institutional...

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