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...main goals going forward are to reach out more to undergraduate community,” Manoogian says. “We hope to incorporate the museum more broadly into the undergraduate curriculum.”One way this is being achieved is through the initiative of Susanne Ebbinghaus and Stephan S. Wolohojian, who are co-teaching a freshman seminar course titled “Art, Objects, and the Museum” this spring.“We will be looking at the artworks themselves, as well as the history of looking at artwork,” says Ebbinghaus, a Lecturer...
...improve the tense relationship between U.S. museums and foreign governments, both Ebbinghaus and Cuno recommend a twofold strategy: performing stringent background checks on objects while finding new ways for museums to permanently acquire artifacts...
...Cuno and Ebbinghaus, the future of antiquities lies in replacing the current minefield of export regulations with another system: partage, a process by which institutions that sponsor excavations receive a share of the finds. In the first half of the 20th century, the archeological museums of universities like Yale and Harvard and art museums like the MFA used partage to acquire their most important pieces. In the 1920s and 1930s, a team from Harvard excavated a site called Nuzi in modern Iraq, finding thousands of cuneiform tablets that detailed daily life. These remain on display in Harvard?...
HUAM and other university museums have special access to archaeology departments, which is perhaps accompanied by a certain degree of responsibility. "I do see a call to university museums to put out an extra call to archeologists, because they are part of the community," Ebbinghaus says...
...encyclopedic museum—the representation of the world’s artistic legacy under one roof as a means of encouraging greater understanding of the world and the interrelatedness of cultures—is always a good thing," Cuno writes. In the eyes of advocates like Cuno and Ebbinghaus, university museums in particular now have a massive task laid out for them: trying to forge agreements between cultures that balance the demands of both scholarship and cultural heritage—a kind of beneficial peace that’s not just on loan...