Museum Practicum in Curatorial Research

Harvard FAS

The purpose of the practicum is to provide curatorial experience in the Peabody Museum (PMAE), directly supervised by a PMAE curator. The practicum is designed to designed to introduce students to contemporary museum curatorial practice, to provide hands-on experience working with PMAE collections, and opportunity for reflexive research based in historical context related to PMAE projects and initiatives. The course is developed with the PMAAE Senior curator the semester prior to…