Learning Outcomes:
• Be conversant with the development of the museum of modern art from the early 19th century to the present.
• Have a critical understanding of how the art museum reflects wider social and cultural imperatives in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
• Be able to distinguish and explain the difference the modern and the post-modern museum.
• Be able to assess the relationship between the museum, the nation state and the city.
• Understand why and how artists have challenged the authority of the museum.
Indicative Module Content:
Museums of contemporary art in 19th century: Musée du Luxembourg
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
The Curatorial and Collection Policies of MOMA, New York.
Museums and colonialism - Dublin's Museum Quarter
The Post-modernist/Contemporary Art Museum
IMMA - its history and rationale