PR-715 Museums as Historic Structures

1 Credits

This 5-week course provides students with an introduction to significant questions faces by art museums housed in historic structures; the answers different museums have proposed; and the eventual solutions negotiated by stakeholders. Classes are held at Pratt and in museums throughout New York City. Specific questions related to how museums have expanded (or not) as their collections have grown and changed; how they have adapted their structures (or not) to house art in developing media; what city-wide or neighborhood concerns were addressed in these processed; and how these specific experiences have influenced the broader philosophical nature of museums today.