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Steven Lubar
Museum Histories
AMST1903I and HIST1960P
Spring 2015
Syllabus
Museums collect and display art and artifacts not only to preserve culture heritage, but also to educate, engage, and entertain. This course examines the history of museums– of art, history, anthropology, natural history, science and technology– to understand their changing goals and their changing place in American society. It also considers the changes within museums, in the work of curation, conservation, education, and social engagement. Students will read museum history and theory, engage with museum archives and other primary sources, and produce a research paper or a digital or public project.
Each week we’ll all read a secondary source, and one or two student will choose a related primary source to explore and present, on a class blog and in class.
Project possibilities:
Do an exhibition that is representative of a different era?
Write labels from different eras?
Exhibit reviews based on ideas of era
Collections??
1. Wunderkammer, early roots
Secondary:
Devices and wonder??
Greenblatt, “Resonance and Wonder”
Primary:
The First Treatise on Museums: Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565
visit John Hay library to see these books?
2. The invention of the modern museum
Secondary:
Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics
McCLellan book on Louvre,
Commercial Museum??
Foucault?
Constance Classen, “Museum Manners: The Sensory Life of the Early Museum,” Journal of Social History 40, no. 4 (2007): 895-‐914; and Helen Rees Leahy, Museum Bodies: The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012).
Primary: ??
3. The first American museums
Secondary:
American Manufactory on Peale?
Salem museum history?
Naval Lyceum?
Les Harrison, The Temple and the Forum: American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman
Wendy Bellion, Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Primary:
Salem Museum catalog?
Naval Lyceum Catalog?
Peale description?
4. Barnum and Goode
Secondary:
Harris, Humbug
Primary:
Explore Hay for mid-‐19th century museum publications/broadsides?
George Brown Goode, either “Museum-‐History and Museums of History,” “The Museums of the Future,” or “The Principles of Museum Administration” in A Memorial of George Brown Goode
5. Museums professionalize
Secondary
Steven Conn, Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-‐1926
Primary:
Museum News?
Metropolitan Museum of Art online annual reports?
6. World’s Fairs / Anthopology?
Secondary:
Barbara Kirshenblatt-‐Gimblett, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage
Robert Rydell, All the world’s a Fair
George W. Stocking, Jr., Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture (1988
Primary
Exposition publications
7. Education in Museums
Secondary:
Hein, Progressive Museum Practice
Primary:
John Cotton Dana reader
Dewey?
Barnes Foundation?
Coleman, The Museum in America: A Critical Study (1939)
Thomas Ritchie Adam, The Civic Value of Museums (1937) and The Museum and Popular Culture (1939).
Grace Fisher Ramsey, Educational Work in Museums of the United States: Development, Methods, and Trends, 1938
Richards, Industrial museums
8. The Civic Museum
Secondary
Jeffrey Trask. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Chapter from Conn?
Primary:
Museum of Modern Art newsletters?? Annual reports?
9. Natural History Museums
Secondary:
Rader, Karen A., and Victoria EM Cain. Life on Display: Revolutionizing US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Primary:
10. History Museums revived
Secondary
Andrea Witcomb, Re-‐imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (2002)
Primary
History Museum interpretation book?
NPS interp guide?
11. Museums and Social Engagement
Secondary
Robert Janes, Museums in a Troubled World
Social Work of Museums
Primary
Excellence and Equity
Museums and Civic Engagement
12. The Experience Revolution
Secondary:
Susan G. Davis, Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience
Primary:
B. Joseph Pine and James H Gilmore’s The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
Other readings
Chapter of McClellan each week?? Neil Harris Cultural excursions
Gail Anderson, “Introduction: Reinventing Museums” in Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift, ed. Gail Anderson (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004),
William S. Walker, A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum
African American museums book