Museum Studies: Exhibitions, Collections and Material Culture - SAHT3213
Faculty: College of Fine Arts
School: School of Art History and Art Education
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Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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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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