Travel
Venture into New York City, a museum and cultural capital that attracts thinkers, artists, ethnographers and historians from around the world. Inside the city’s vast array of historic sites, art institutions and cultural centers, consider how museums both reflect and define who we are. Examine critical theoretical issues: the politics of display, public reception and conflicting perspectives of multiple audiences.
In this course, you will travel one day a week, visiting various New York metropolitan museums such as:
9/11 Memorial and Museum
American Museum of Natural History
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
El Museo Del Barrio
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Chinese in America
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of the City of New York
Morgan Library and Museum
National Museum of Native Americans
Neue Gallerie
New York Historical Society
Tenement Museum
Washington's National Headquarters
Whitney Museum