Museums and Society is an exciting interdisciplinary program that introduces undergraduates to the collection, preservation, interpretation, and presentation of art, history, and the natural world in societies past and present. Students in the program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Program in Museums and Society is concerned with how societies shape knowledge and understanding through the collection, preservation, interpretation, and presentation of specimens, objects, artifacts, materials, monuments, and historic sites. Through classroom teaching, research, and direct engagement with a wide range of public institutions, organizations, and their collections, the program promotes the study of material culture and its place across many scholarly disciplines. Close attention to collections and their changing material, social, and political status is the program’s central concern. In addition to curricular and scholarly activities within the university, the program promotes meaningful connections with local and regional museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Program in Museums and Society was established in 2006 with the primary mission of developing and administering an interdisciplinary minor. In addition, it was intended to provide a locus for faculty and student consideration of museums and their impact on societies, both past and present, and a forum for undergraduate interactions with local museums and collections. It has since expanded its remit beyond museum institutions to engage more broadly with Baltimore’s memory and culture keepers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The name of the program, Museums and Society, was a deliberate choice, intended to emphasize an approach that is expansive and conceptual, looking out beyond the museum itself to take in such organizations’ larger impact and significance, and pushing beyond the walls of the university to engage with the public as part of the university’s academic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMy minor in Museums and Society has been the most enriching part of my coursework at Hopkins<\/strong>. In many of my M&S courses I’ve had the unique opportunity to gain practical experience. At the Walters Art Museum I worked alongside curators while researching and producing literature on the provenance of a rare 12th-century illuminated manuscript! In other courses we took behind-the-scenes tours of museum collections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nIt is impossible for me to put into words the impact M&S had on my education at Hopkins. The opportunities opened so many doors<\/strong>. I remember in particular a visitor we had in class who was doing work in the National Archives related to Nazi-era records of art looting. Meeting them showed me a possible career path<\/strong> and I recently got a job working in London as a provenance researcher, which is essentially my ‘dream job.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nI like that I met<\/strong> students from across disciplines<\/strong> in my Museums & Society courses. It helped expand my critical thinking. Also, the field trips and research requirements forced me to get off campus and explore Baltimore and DC<\/strong>, which I might not have otherwise done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\nMuseums & Society provided an incredible community<\/strong> to be part of. I made some amazing friends that I still keep in touch with that I otherwise wouldn’t have. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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