MUSEUM STUDIES
We propose a faculty lunch on the broader topic of Museum Studies, situated outside the specific confines of the art museum. We want to look at museums as a paradigm for shaping knowledge, at exhibitions as performative spaces, at on-line exhibitions, and at the emerging realization of Malraux's "museum without walls" in such virtual spaces as ARTstore and Pioneer Digital Image Database (PDID). Drawing on fields beyond art, such as theatre, anthropology, history, education and sociology, we hope to engage a larger discussion of the role of museums in culture, the place of museums in cultures which have been, until recently, unfamiliar with the concept, and the issues raised by classes and cultures historically ignored or rejected by museums. Much is to be gained in teaching issues of performance, possession, consumer culture, and popular culture by studying a variety of approaches to this rich topic.
Date: October 31, 2005 at 12:00 noon
Moderators: Lesley Delmenico, Kathy Kamp, Lesley Wright
Attendees:
Sarah Purcell
