A class about collections
We’re halfway through the semester, and my collections class is deep into the stamp exhibition project.
I’m teaching a course titled “Museum Collecting and Collections.” There are three projects:
- the Brown University’s Library extensive stamp collections
- the paintings that came to Brown with the Annmary Brown Memorial, and
- scientific instruments scattered across Brown departments.
In each case, we’re trying to understand the history of the collection, think about their potential use, do some cataloging, and propose a collections management and development plan.
Today two students—Anna Meyer and Sarah Dylla—joined me to talk about the course at a meeting of the Library Advisory Committee. Here’s the presentation we gave. Thanks to Anna and Sarah for their work on the presentation, and for spending a Saturday morning talking about stamps, collections, and exhibitions.
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I know this post was from 2015 and the course I co-taught was even further back (2008), but I thought it might be of interest given some other themes in your work (like participation in the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium).
Hard to read syllabus is here (part of course blog):
https://collectingseminar.wordpress.com/syllabus/