https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/HISU5101?type=COREFor full course description including readings and assignment, please see the Moodle page.The course offers a comparative approach to the concepts, development, and history oforganized collections from late antiquity through contemporary museums, exploring theideals and practices of private and public spaces of display and collecting practices. The courseoffers a series of critical reflections on the etymology and genealogy of collections and aimsat presenting the changing institutional frames and social conditions of displaying history,nature, art, and knowledge. The course explores various examples of collecting from earliermanifestations such as the so-called cabinets of curiosities (Kunst- or Wunderkammern) tochanging, concepts, attitudes, and perceptions in the evolution of institutional practiceswithin the "museum space". The course encompasses the beginnings of the first Europeanmuseums (18th-19th century) and exhibitions dealing with questions of origin, ethnography,empire, and national histories. Besides offering an overview of the historical development ofmodern museums through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the course also coverssome core elements of contemporary practices of museum collections, including debatesabout museums and public history, the construction of collective identities, memory politics,new collecting agendas, repatriation, and missions of museums in the global age.