Museum Studies

Question 1

Stephen Weil

Answer 1

Museums as temples and forums

Question 2

Alex Marshall

Answer 2

Issues regarding the definition of a museum (a lot of people quit)

Question 3

Jasmine Liu

Answer 3

ICOM’s initial definition of a museum (turned mission statement) and final definition

Question 4

Peter Vergo

Answer 4

The new museology and the dissatisfaction with the old museuology

Question 5

Saloni Mathur

Answer 5

Growth of museums, their collaboration with corporations, and colonial lens of collecting

Question 6

Andrew McLellan

Answer 6

Museum plans for Abu Dhabi, the economic and cultural benefits

Question 7

Elizabeth Rodini

Answer 7

History of the art museum, Wunderkammer -> colonial plunder -> white cube museums

Question 8

Ross Parry

Answer 8

Thresholds
What they look like, their role, multiple with the emergence of technology

Question 9

Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach

Answer 9

Universal survey museum
Past examples, the Louvre, focus of survey museums, universal survey museums in America

Question 10

LACMA reveals new building

Answer 10

Museum is one level to make all art equal, less space for art, rejects white cube museum

Question 11

Elizabeth Rodini

Answer 11

The Louvre
Founding, initially for the elite, revolutionaries wanted control, Napoleon used it as a trophy case, African objects originally rejected

Question 12

Lise Ragbir

Answer 12

Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s music video
Perpetuates idea that art is a luxury
People of color have low turn out rates to museums, but rates can be increased

Question 13

Holland Cutter

Answer 13

Louvre Abu Dhabi
The architecture, multicultural environment, critics the museum saying it failed by exploiting migrant workers

Question 14

Ralph Rugoff

Answer 14

Museum of Jurassic Technology
Breaches our contracts with museums, we assume museums are teaching us the truth, but after experiencing the MJT our blind trust in museums is taken away
Museum mixes topics that are not usually mixed such as religion and science

Question 15

Video

Answer 15

Museum of Jurassic Technology
Challenging universal survey narratives that assert the truth, make sure question why we trust museums

Question 16

Svetlana Alpers

Answer 16

Museum effect
Museums put up objects of visual interest and may not be the best places to each about the culture of objects , objects in the museums become art when they are placed there

Question 17

Michael Baxandall

Answer 17

Museum as a field of play
Three key players: the maker, exhibitor, and viewer
Object label relationship is important, it explains the objects’ stories

Question 18

James Clifford

Answer 18

Museums as contact zones
Contact zones are places where different cultures meet and come into contact with one another, there is usually a power difference
Objects mean different things to different people

Question 19

Johanna Drucker

Answer 19

Explanatory narrative of a utopian virtual museum
Virtual museums can allow for people to view many different arts from all over the world from their own houses/schools

Question 20

Michael Kimmelman

Answer 20

Quai Branly is described as dark and scary with lots of plants everywhere
A lot of colonialism present in the objects, none of the ways the objects were acquired are addressed
People from the cultures of the objects are not involved in the display or education about the objects

Question 21

Sally Price

Answer 21

Quai Branly has impressive attendance at special exhibits but the main museum itself has not done that well
Main museum has a lot of criticism, used primitivism, and created a new-colonial list feel with the layout of the museum

Question 22

Mark O’Neill

Answer 22

Critique of the British Museum statement on Universal Museums
Universal museums should expose their history of collecting objects (colonialism)
BM has a superiority complex in contact zones, they claim universality
Wants development of universal normative values but to response cultural traditions

Question 23

Michael Wise

Answer 23

The museum in Greece made for the Parthenon marbles
Built spaces for the marbles and want the BM to give them back
Marbles are fundamental for the new Greek government

Question 24

Catherine Hickley

Answer 24

Digital inventory of the Benin bronzes
Other museums committed to physically loaning the Parthenon marbles on a rotating basis, but not permanently
Bringing the bronzes back together would allow them to read like a book

Question 25

Thomas McEvilley

Answer 25

Primitivism in the MOMA
The museum attempts to revalidate classical modernist by bringing in foreign culture
Counter argument he has is that primitivism actually invalidates modern art and shows its subject to external causation