Fall 2026 Courses
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Maximum Enrollment: 2
Dates: Wednesdays 11-3; Sept. 16 to Nov. 4.
Instructor: Eileen Rafferty, MMAC Photographer/Registrar
Consent of Instructor Required
Museums obtain new acquisitions through donations, gifts or bequests. Accessioning is the process of transitioning artwork into a Museum's Permanent Collection.
Students will learn the workflow of Accessioning, including presenting to Collections Committees, inventory and legal documentation, transporting, photographing and
cataloguing. This is essential for each piece of artwork to ensure its proper record and storage in the Permanent Collection.
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Maximum Enrollment: 2
Dates: TBA
Instructor: Derick Wycherly, MMAC Associate Curator/Collections Manager
Consent of Instructor Required
Through readings, assignments, and hands-on experiences, students will learn best practices in object handling, maintenance and care, building archival housing, and organizing collections in the museum.
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Maximum Enrollment: TBA
Dates: TBA
Instructor: Rafael Chacon, MMAC Director
Museums are among the most dynamic cultural hubs of the modern world; their evolution in the western world has been the topic of much scholarship and historical analysis since at least the 16th century. The course is an intensive seminar in which the class discusses the development of museums in the west as well as the ideological implications for their function in contemporary society. It is primarily based on lectures, reading and discussion, and a supervised research project.
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Maximum Enrollment: 10
Dates: TBA
Instructor: Katrina Derieg, Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum Curator and Museum Collections & Outreach Coordinator
This course has two goals: firstly to introduce students to the history, preparation, curation, and scientific use of natural history collections; and secondly to familiarize them with the basic structure and management of data associated with museum collections. The course will be leaning on vertebrate zoological collections as examples for both goals, as they involve complex physical and data curation. However, the core concepts are transferrable to different types of collections, with different practices and purposes, across disciplines.