Courtney Harris '11 pores over historical sources and databases, tracks down experts in the work of particular artists, and tries to authenticate the claims of families who come to her employer, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. Read the story in Arts & Sciences Magazine.

What compels us to collect? What objects do institutions value and what do their collections say about them (and us)? If you could create your own exhibition or museum, what would it be? These are no small questions, yet they are considered daily by students and teachers in the courses offered in the Program in […]

On Tuesday, February 14, students in the Staging Suburbia course, the product of a Mellon-funded collaboration with the Jewish Museum, visited the neighborhoods about which they will be creating an exhibit for Fall 2012: Baltimore’s post-war Jewish suburbs. The museum staff teaching the course did not forget to include a stopover at Miller’s delicatessen, to […]

A grant of $484,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the Program in Museums and Society at The Johns Hopkins University to expand both its course offerings and its staff. With support from the grant, four new courses taught by curators at three Baltimore museums will be added to the roster of the […]

The current course “Critical Issues in Art Conservation,” taught by Sanchita Balachandran, has been maintaining a blog all semester. Students have contributed posts and comments on diverse topics, from the benefits and risks of art restoration, to the use of imaging technology to uncover knowledge about original works of art, to the consequences of mistakes […]