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Museum Studies: Exhibitions, Collections and Material Culture - SAHT3213
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Faculty: College of Fine Arts
 
 
School:  School of Art History and Art Education
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/schools/arthistorytheory
 
 
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course reviews theoretical frameworks and current research on museums and art museums. It examines the history of collecting and exhibiting, and the museum as an institution. Taking the new museology as its theoretical starting point, it considers the cultural role of museums. It compliments the practical emphasis of the professional contexts strand within the core of the BArtTh by exploring critical theoretical approaches to museum culture. Its emphasis is on material culture, objects, artworks and curatorship in the contexts of collections and exhibitions.

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