AMST 841 - Museology Meets the Museum

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

This course will combine our analysis of key theoretical texts in museum studies with visits, as a group, to museums themselves. We will consider in historical perspective (from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century) the arguments of museum founders, practitioners and theorists as they address: nation-building and national and cultural identities; the representation of histories -- including histories of human suffering; the status of the visitor; ongoing negotiations between the museum and its intended, excluded, alienated, and combative publics. We will pay particular attention to the evolving notion of museum innovation - the topic of this year's annual conference of the American Association of Museums. 1.00 units, Seminar

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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