Museums are traditionally places of learning and inspiration: temples of culture, where we marvel at the exhibits. For artists, these institutions have also become a site for interventions with both ideas and objects, resulting in a wide variety of projects. In preparation for describing and creating their own museum-from artifacts to audio tours; labels, pedestals and explanatory text to signage, students in this class will be introduced to the history, purpose and function of museums, side by side with the work of contemporary artists who have critiqued or engaged the museum/archive. These will include Barbara Bloom, Marcel Broodthaers, Janet Cardiff, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Meschac Gaba, Hans Haacke, Claes Oldenburg, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gillian Wearing and Fred Wilson. Presentations on student's personal collections and class visits to the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose and Oakland's Pardee Home Museum will help students understand the impulse to collect and present.

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