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Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo, Meditation of Saint Jerome, c. 1520-25, Samuel H. Kress Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art

Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo, Meditation of Saint Jerome, c. 1520-25, Samuel H. Kress Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art

Corrine Glesne
October 2012
Sponsored Research
The 2009 global recession demonstrated how vulnerable campus museums can be in times of economic turmoil. Brandeis University caused a firestorm with its announced plan to close its Rose Art Museum and sell the museum’s collections, and soon it became clear that other campus museums were – or could be – similarly at risk. As part of the response to this and other troubling developments, the Kress Foundation sponsored a qualitative study of “the campus art museum.” The sponsored study is intended to enhance our understanding of the manifold contributions campus art museums can make to their host institutions and host cities.

 

About the Author

Corrine Glesne is a qualitative researcher, educational anthropologist, and author of the text, Becoming Qualitative Researchers. She is professor emeritus at the University of Vermont where she taught for 17 years. Currently, she lives in Asheville, NC and does independent research, including work with international educational programs.

 
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This study is also available in book form from MuseumEtc under the title The Exemplary Museum: Art and Academia.