Please excuse multiple postings.

 

As the summer of 2014 slips into its final weeks, you’re probably thinking about how you’d like to actually accomplish something next summer. Why not plan to spend two weeks in Florence, Italy, visiting and learning about museum collections and the development of the modern museum?!

 

Details are still being finalized, but you can sign up now to receive additional information as soon as it becomes available: http://bit.ly/MuseumOrigins2015. Or visit our Museum Origins webpage for more information about the class and testimonials from former students: http://www2.kent.edu/slis/programs/mlis/museum-studies-museum-origins.cfm.

 

 

 

 

Do you ever wonder why people collect things?

 

How did 15th century private desires to own collections lead to the museum as we know it today?

 

Why is Florence, Italy, considered one of the birthplaces of the modern museum? 

 

 

Find out next summer in Museum Origins!

 

An 8-week course that blends online learning with onsite investigation (in ITALY!) and scholarly research.

 

Open to current graduate students and alumni of master’s or Ph.D. programs in any field from any college or university

 

Great for students in art, art history, literature, history, public history, anthropology, psychology, museum studies, library & information science, classics – all majors welcome!

• First three weeks: Course readings and discussions online.
• Middle two weeks: You go to “class” in museums in Italy. (How cool is that?!)
• Last three weeks: You write a research paper. 
• After the course: An experience that lasts a lifetime.

Course: Museum Origins / LIS 61095 / Three credit-hour graduate-level course

 

To receive additional information when it becomes available: http://bit.ly/MuseumOrigins2015.

For more information about the course: http://www2.kent.edu/slis/programs/mlis/museum-studies-museum-origins.cfm.