The course brings scholarship, contemporary art, exhibitions, activism, and policy into creative and critical conversation on the state and idea of museums today. Discussing key issues in museology – such as collections and collecting, conservation, representation, repatriation, and restitution – we explore the museum as witness. Particularly examining how museums are entangled with violence, we attend to memory as our approach for delving into both museums’ histories and their imagined futures. Includes visiting museums [3 credits]
The course brings scholarship, contemporary art, exhibitions, activism, and policy into creative and critical conversation on the state and idea of museums today. Discussing key issues in museology – such as collections and collecting, conservation, representation, repatriation, and restitution – we explore the museum as witness. Particularly examining how museums are entangled with violence, we attend to memory as our approach for delving into both museums’ histories and their imagined futures. Includes visiting museums [3 credits]
