Creating a 21st Century Art and Design Museum: A Seminar and Laboratory

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This graduate course could be an essential component of preparing yourself to advance your museum career. It combines a research seminar with travel to meet current museum leaders and a laboratory to shape the program of an emerging museum in a nearby community. By applying your previous experience you can help form the future of museums in this laboratory. This course examines the relevance of the museum concept, its history and current pressure/opportunities for museums to become even more appropriate to promoting scientific and cultural knowledge, understanding the human condition, our environment, and to become places of inspiration for all.