Museums, Memory, and Witnessing

3 cr · Graduate

Discussing key issues in museology such as collections and collecting, conservation, representation, repatriation, and restitution, this course will explore the museum as witness. Particularly examining how museums are entangled with violence, we will attend to memory as our approach for delving into both museums’ histories and their imagined futures. The course will bring scholarship, contemporary art, exhibitions, activism, and policy into creative and critical conversation on the state and idea of museums today. Not open to students who have completed ANTH 4080 or equivalent. Permission of Instructor.