In a few weeks, I begin teaching Museums and Technology (I’m not the only IMA instructor this fall – my colleague, blogger and conservator, Richard McCoy is also teaching - Collections Care and Management with Jennifer Mikulay). Museums and Technology is run through IUPUI Museum Studies and will feature 18 or so, up and coming undergrad and graduate students. They will one day enter the museum community with their own ideas, theories and philosophies. I’m actually excited to learn from them. The class itself is a different story, and for the sake of clarity, here is the official class description:
MSTD A414 / A514: Museums and Technology (3 cr.) This course surveys the growing use of technology in museums. It examines applications for information management in collections, conservation science, and archives. It examines critically the use of technology in the service of education both in exhibit contexts and in the variety of educational programs and web-based dissemination of knowledge.
(I would normally put an image here, but I don’t have a good one. Instead I’m going to plug our latest video, a trailer for our next major exhibition Sacred Spain: Art & Belief in the Spanish World).
