Learning about Exhibition Management and Collections Care at SFO Museum
By Vanessa Teo MA ‘22 In studying the history and theory of museums, the Museum Studies MA cohort has learned more about the idea of the visitor-centric museum. In his 2002 essay “From Being about Something to Being for Somebody,” critic Stephen E. Weil frames the museum as a public service whose work should center around the impact it makes on its visitors.[1] Yet, if we look even further back, we find John Cotton Dana offering an incisive and prescient […]
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