MUSE 239: Care and Use of Material Culture

Cross Listed
Program
Credits 4
Attributes
Social Sciences

Material Culture Studies explores how museums can interpret human-mediated objects. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding humans and their things which can include everything from buildings and architecture to clothes and jewelry to sporting goods and everything in between. Objects are essential for humans --we use them to shape our world and give it meaning. In this class we focus on the interpretation of objects in historical and anthropological collections with some reference to art collections and archives.