RESEARCHING AND PRESENTING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

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Prerequisite: Museum Studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Methodologies utilized in museum acquisitions, collections management, multi-disciplinary interpretation, exhibition design, and textual production. Theoretical and practical methods of exhibiting objects and publishing information about museum collections. Research methodologies, digital database models, conservation and collections care, alternative approaches to interpreting and contextualizing objects, and exhibition techniques. Elective course for Museum Studies collections management and curatorial practice specialization.