Topic: Public Cultures: Museum Studies

Catalog description

This course spotlights exciting changes in the 21st century museum, drawing on the unique and changing resources in New York City. This course asks how we shape the past through museums and how we shape public space and public memory (for example, Ground Zero). The course looks closely at NYC institutions, and students will visit many of the institutions considered: the National Museum of the American Indian, Ground Zero, the Brooklyn Museum, Ellis Island, among others.