I really wish I had had the time to go to more museums in the City of Brotherly Love. My conference schedule was so hectic that I only had time to visit two, the Please Touch Museum and the UPenn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. They were both amazing.
Carol also went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to mingle and see the Cezanne exhibition. She claimed the museum was way better than the MFA in Boston. Its been a while since I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and all I remember is that they have stellar collection of works by my favorite artist, Marcel Duchamp.
My favorite workshop at the 2009 AAM conference was one I hadn't even planned on attending, a roundtable discussion about whether Museum Studies programs should be standardized.
As a group we decided against it but agreed that aligning programs based on certain criteria might be a great idea, for example:
- themes
- a list of standard texts
- competencies
- interests in history, art history, contemporary art, science, anthropology, etc.
I say standards or no standards, what is really needed are clear explanations and expectations. At this point applying to Museum Studies programs feels like a crap shoot!
Honestly all I was really looking for in a grad school was to attend a prestigious program that could help me get a job at one of the top museums in the country. If I have anything to do with it, this process of weeding out programs in Museum Studies, Arts Administration, Museum Education, etc will become much, much easier.
This is both a promise and a threat!!! Muhahaha, you can "count" on it.
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