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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??

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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??    

   

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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?    

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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?    

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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.    

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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  

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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