Section outline

  • Meeting Point: 

    Morning and afternoon sessions: Quayside Room, Museum of London Docklands. Meet just inside the entrance  where someone will show us to the Quayside Room. If you are late, ask for directions to the Quayside Room at the information desk. The nearest DLR stop is West India Quay; nearest Tube stop is Canary Wharf. [Please note: Make sure you go to the correct Museum of London! This one is located in the Docklands, East London, near Canary Wharf.] 

    • Essential Reading (ALL ATTACHED BELOW): 

      1. Nick Prior, ‘Having One’s Tate and Eating It: Transformations of the Museum in a Hypermodern Era’ in Andrew McClellan (ed.), Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 51–74.
        • QUESTION: What is a "postmodern" museum? And who is the postmodern museum goer?
      2. David Spence, ‘Making the London Sugar and Slavery Gallery at Museum of London Docklands’, in Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums, Laurajane Smith et al. (eds.) (London: Routledge, 2011), 149–163.
        • QUESTION: What is postmodern about the way the "London, Sugar and Slavery" Gallery was devised and curated?


      Further Reading: 

      • Douglas Crimp, On the Museum’s Ruins (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1993).

      • Douglas Davis, The Museum Transformed: Design and Culture in the Post-Pompidou Age (New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990).
      • Andrea Fraser, ‘From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique’, Artforum 44, no. 1 (2005) in Alberro and Stimson (eds.), Institutional Critique, (London: MIT Press, 2009).
      • Jonathan Harris (ed.), Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004) 
      • Robert Janes and Richard Sandell (eds.), Museum Activism (London: Routledge: 2019).
      • Rosalind Krauss, ‘Postmodernism’s museum without walls’, in Reesa Greenburg, Bruce W Ferguson and Sandy Nairne (eds.), Thinking About Exhibitions (London/New York: Routledge, 1996), 341-348.
      • Andrew McClellan, (ed.), Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).
      • Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, and Kirsten Wehner, Curating the Future Museums, Communities and Climate Change (London: Routledge, 2017).
      • Griselda Pollock, (ed.), Museums after Modernism: Strategies of Engagement (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007).
      • Franklin Robinson, W, ‘Learning by looking: the future of museums’, in Hugh H. Genoways (ed.), Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century (Lanham MD: AltaMira Press, 2006), 161-164.
      • Richard Sandell, Museums, Moralities and Human Rights (London: Routledge, 2017).
      • Charles Saumarez Smith, ‘The future of the museum’, in Sharon Macdonald (ed.), A Companion to Museum Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 543-554.


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