About this course
Have you ever wondered about how museum, library, and other kinds of historical or scientific collections all come together? Or how and why curators, historians, archivists, and preservationists do what they do?
What you'll learn
- Understanding of museum curation approaches
- The basics of historical analysis and interpretation
- A sense of the work that historians, curators, and collectors perform
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- How things that seem to belong to different disciplines actually can “talk” to one another
- How things that may seem unrelated to each other can show relationships between art and science, economics, and culture, as well as between people in many different parts of the world
Learning Formats: Videos
Institutions: Harvard University