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The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque is offering the following Museum Studies course during the Fall of 2003:
MUSEUM PRACTICES
ART HISTORY 407.001
Instructor: A. Hunt
T 5:30-8:15
CA 1019
AOA ANTH 402.001. This course provides an introduction to the history, philosophy, and purposes of museums. The practices and concerns of museum administration, education, collections, exhibitions, conservation and public relations will be covered. The course will utilize the facilities and staff expertise at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This course is restricted and to register requires permission of the instructor. Special fee $18.
Dr. Adrian Hunt is the Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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SEMINAR/MUSEUM METHODS
ART HISTORY 485.001
Instructor: K. Bakker
S 10:00-12:50
HIBBEN CENTER
AOA ANTH 485.001. This course is being offered in cooperation with the Maxwell Museum and The Hibben Center for Archaeology Research. The class will help students learn how curators and other museum personnel work with conservators to preserve and document museum collections and plan exhibitions of fragile material artifacts. It is not intended to teach students to be conservators, but hands on work with the museum's ethnographic and archaeological collections will be required.
The emphasis will be on issues related to conservation of Southwestern materials, but the conservation principals studied will be applicable to all museum collections. Slide lectures and case studies will focus on New Mexican bultos and retablos, Spanish colonial furniture, architectural fragments, and ethnographic and archaeological collections. Conservation treatments of decorative arts and furniture from many other parts of the world will also be studied. Issues of cultural diversity and the interpretation of New Mexican Hispanic and Native American artifacts will also be discussed in relation to past and current conservation practices.
The course will provide students interested in pursuing museum work with an overview of conservation issues and currently accepted practices in the field. Topics for class discussion and readings will include the mechanical and chemical nature of artists' materials and techniques, and how, when, and why objects are conserved or not conserved. Lectures, and readings will review the entire conservation process from assessing conservation and curatorial priorities to executing basic conservation treatments along with all necessary written and photographic documentation. Individual class projects will be assigned to relate to students major area of study. This course is restricted and to register requires permission of the instructor. Special fee $18.
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PRACTICUM: MUSEUM METHODS
ART HISTORY 486.001
Instructor: J. Jacob ARR AOA ANTH 486.001. Practicum in museum methods and management. This course is restricted and requires permission of the instructor. Special fee $18.
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_________________________________________________ New Mexico State University in Las Cruces is offering the following Museum Studies course during the Fall of 2003:
Introduction to Museology/Advanced Museology I
Anthropology 345/545
Instructor: Terry R. Reynolds, Ph.D., Curator of Collections and Exhibits
W 5:30-8:00 pm
University Museum, Kent Hall
Museums are a place were people can experience anthropology, art, history and science outside the formal academic classroom. These experiences have provided many persons with vivid memories and long-term motivation to pursue studies, careers and/or hobbies. This course investigates how basic professional museum practices provide the public with these important experiences.
For more information call 505-646-4056.
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