Can a bird curate a museum? Of course! Have you never played Animal Crossing? 😊

This episode took a very surprising and unexpected path. I appreciate that episode explained how not all museums honor the original creators of the works.

I’ve been waiting for an Art History crash course since when I started watching History crash course more than ten hears ago while on high school. Now that I am an Art teacher, I am very appreciative of this, thank you.

"and sometimes questionable taxidermy." I've always appreciated the understated humour of both Crash Course and Sara's work, and super delighted to see both on point here! :) Great start to this series!

I appreciate this series! Of course another big issue around museum's and their role of displaying art for the public is admission price. I know this was previously well addressed in "The Art Assignment" and have no doubt it will be addressed later in this series. Ticket prices and admission policies can explicitly exclude many people off the bat, and the culture of exclusivity created by the admission policies over time can lead to a wider cultural idea that museums (and art!) are not for everyone.

I'm ready to marry that bird. He sings, builds a nest, tidies up AND decorates.

Seeing the private collection thing is making me daydream of my goal of having a hobby room where a bunch of both official and fanmade merch of my favorite fandoms can be displayed. Prints, pins, keychains, and more just on display for me and my friends to enjoy. Maybe someday I’ll win the lottery and go on a shopping spree on Etsy and Shopify and Big Cartel lol.

Proud to see Amgueddfa Cymru's Reframing Picton featured. I'm working with my colleagues on a research project around Laku Neg's installation piece in this show.

Really loving the course so far, and I think Sarah is doing an incredible job!

I was kind of hoping this episode would mention the oldest known public museum (we think), from 530 BCE in Ur, curated by Ennigaldi-Nanna, the king's daughter.

As I understand it Bowerbirds have no natural predators. One interpretation is that they've moved up the hierarchy of needs; and now that life is no longer a matter of life and death it's a matter of art :-)

I love how this popped up just as I was walking out of a museum

I love how this is presented because while we still have a lot of learning to do and changing our focus so that people of color are part of telling their own stories we are getting there very slowly.

So happy to see such a positive comment section! I appreciate this series a lot! I felt a lot of content and context lacking in my own art history classes and am happy I get to learn about more diverse artwork here! :D

Another wonderful and informative addition to an amazing series! Thank you!!

What a great series!

I really love how much education has changed in my lifetime.

Is there a difference between art museums and art galleries? Or is this just a dialect difference between the US and UK?

Ooooooh I want to go to that ramen museum 🍜🍜🍜🍜

Educative, appealing, humorous, fun, and unpretentious. What else can we ask for? Congratulations!

Thank you for the "Crashcourse "🥰 - you are doing a great job Sarah 👌Can't wait for the next video 🙋‍♀💌

Another great video! Thank you so much for this series.

This really pumped me up for my museums & community class I'm taking this summer for my MLIS

I'm very happy with this series!

Can't wait for the next episode!

What is everybody’s favorite art museum they visited? Mine was the Aarhus art museum in Denmark. It has this amazing circular rainbow glass walkway on the top

Really interesting course so far, thanks a lot!

How did you miss Ennigaldi-Nannas museum? It was an actual museum (labels, open to public, for educational purposes) as opposed to the Egyptian, Greek and Roman things you talked about.

"Still, we wouldn't call these prehistoric caves museums." Nope, the closest analog we have to these places are cathedrals.

You talking about museums reminds me: I saw a long post on Tumblr getting into the differences in approaches between different kinds of museums and how - and how well - they serve their visitors. MY takeaway from it as an outsider was that art museums sound like they have a few things they could benefit from learning from science museums...and really wished I could share it with you (thought of tagging the Art Assignment account but wasn't sure it'd be seen) to get YOUR thoughts on it. **If** you're open to being tagged for your thoughts on such things, where would be best?

I love that bird. Nice to see that other species appreciate art!

Of the many things I love about CC:AH, one of the most pleasant surprises is the Canon Cannon.

When I interned at SAAM last summer, I was blown away by how much the curatorial and interpretation departments thought about this stuff constantly: they were balancing the 'important' works their board insisted they had to display with fresh interpretations of those works that acknowledged and highlighted the historical context and the stories the works by themselves wouldn't tell. Interpreting every theme with as much diversity as possible wasn't just important to them, it was the most interesting way of doing things. I helped draw up plans for their big reinstall that would include a room full of works of sculpture by female artists, including African American/Native American artist Edmonia Lewis, and I really hope it makes the final cut.

Another great video! I especially love this because in my city we now have a "Pocket Museum" - which is in fact an alley downtown, behind our Saenger Theater! It features a lot of local artists' work, some extremely whimsical miniatures, and a steadily changing series of themes as the year goes along. It's become one of my very favorite places in the city, with no gates, no fees, no closing hours, and endless interest. It's of course tiny and intentionally focused on THIS community, but I feel like it's one of the best modern takes on a museum I've encountered!

Interesting thanks.

This is such a fantastic series. I look forward to each episode!

Oh, thank you! Really informative and beautifully presented. I've just discovered this Crash Course. I'm excited to follow it and I will catch up with the last episodes. I'm glad these artworks are now being returned. Should have happened much earlier. When I walk through the second hand shops in Bruxelles you feel like in a "Wunderkammer". I wonder where all of the animal heads and animal fur comes from.

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0:01 youknow, i'll NEVER stop giggling at that species. If you'd throw a VIDEO of it in with a set of others and told me to find the 1 fictional/fake video/bird; i'd choose that thing. every time. no contest. Something about it just feels off. be it the eyes, the overal vibe of the thing or how i can SWEAR i can see it smiling half the time somehow i KNOW it's a real bird. i've seen it in real life. Still somehow looks like someone barely passed their exam in "Animating a realistic bird"

Thank you for this course! I’m a hobby artist and never got to take true “art history” this is such a fun course

The history of museums would be displayed in a...museum museum.

Was worried the episode might gloss over the history of colonialism and art theft, glad to see justice issues took up a sizable portion of the video

Great video

Thank you.

So what is the difference between a museum (say The British Museum in London) and a major art gallery (say Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney)?

Thanks for this. I hadn’t realised how deeply political musesms are and how determined by the politics and beliefs of the curator. I’ve spent a life exploring art galleries and museums. I’d never considered just how enmeshed they are in the politics of the day

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This series is awesome ❤ Does other countries have "Museum passes"? Here in Finland there is a pass (around 60 euros/year) that you can use to get in almost every museum in the country. There is lots of private ones included.

اللهم صل وسلم على نبينا محمد

Nooo what did they do to the intro song 😢😢😢 0:52

11:30 Is that a blue Bic biro lid?

i went to la galerie de l'evolution in Paris, and i wanted to cry when i saw all the taxidermy

And now I’ve learned that “museum” and “music” are related.

It would be nice if we could replace colonialism and repatriation with cooperation - work with each other to lend art between countries and cultures and collaborate on their display. For instance, while the British Museum should return stolen art, that would take away the opportunity for London visitors to learn about Benin. It would be much better if they could collaborate with the Nigerians, get permission to borrow some of these pieces and help with their display.

Newfields!

loving this series so far

Have you thought of doing a video about constructed languages like Esperanto? Many people don't know much and say things that are totally untrue. Using Esperanto in international communication would be much fairer than using a language which is a native language for some, but not for others who are therefore disadvantaged.

What a great video

🎶 The Acropolis where the Parthenon is … 🎵

Museums having been a way for the rich to show off their art collection reminded me of the scene from Pride and Prejudice, when Elizabeth visits Pemberley and views Mr. Darcy's galleries of paintings and sculptures. It was common practice for these large estates to have a section of their house turned into a museum and open for public viewing.

Brb, got to go check if Luna's body was living when exhibited Edit: it was. Which makes more sense in view of the message therein

Cc: The British Museum

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Yay Newfields!

where is the universe podcast?????????????

My local museum is that old it's inside another museum

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That's more an exposition than a museum (the bird one)

Hot take but I think the British Museum is actually a terrible museum. It's just long hallways full of glass boxes of stuff, with very little information available and that information only on tiny placards that are sometimes poorly lit. The only thing it has going for it is volume. A+ loot collection, but honestly a very bad educational tool. Other museums, even in London, do much more engaging things with their collections. The Imperial War Museum is fantastic, as is the Museum of Natural History.

So.... Who saw that bird and his blue loot and thought "Lemme smach"

as an artist from where artifacts were taken to UK/Europe, I'm very glad that happened. Art is a common heritage for all humanity, it can't be bounded to one nationality. The art pieces deserve to be presented to people who actually appreciates it. It's like giving custody of children to well behaved families instead of their drug addict parents

Heh. Banksy reference 🎈

I disagree with the characterization of the word primitive. We need a word to describe forms of art that are traditional, static, made with rudimentary tools and techniques. The attempt is descriptive. The only thing I would agree would be to shed its opposition with evolved. Primitive does not mean backward but it is antonymous to modern. The pejoration, in other words, is a prejudice. It isn't clear that people using it make a claim of inferiority.

There is no excuse for any piece of art or artifacts to be kept out of its country of origin. Period.

Colour consciousness but, for instance, no class consciousness? Perhaps it's worth thinking about what is considered oppression, and whether some prejudices persist. Sometimes the War on Prejudice feels like the War on Drugs, ie it's the War on *Some* Prejudice, just like it is the War on *Some* Drugs

postmodern ridiculousness

This series is turning to more of a soapbox to talk about injustice than it is about "art history". Not that there is anything wrong with talking about the injustices of colonialism or patriarchy but there is very little content to these videos beyond the soapboxing.

Especially enjoyed this episode