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Art and History at the Museum is an art history course
designed to facilitate the research of specific objects,
exhibitions and/or archival material housed in museums, and
specifically the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul. While its
main focus is on provenance research and object histories
within the museum’s permanent collections, histories of
temporary museum exhibitions and/or creating historical
context as exhibition content are also within the scope of
the course which aims to equip students with an
understanding of the functioning of a museum as an
educational tool of art historical knowledge. The course is
open to all students who are willing to engage in the
“detective work” that is necessary to trace the provenance
of objects in museum inventories, and have an interest in
discussions around art, material culture, museums,
exhibitions, art history as a discipline, curatorial
practice and theory, and the ways in which historical
narratives are constructed through the care, management
and presentation of artistic and cultural objects.
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