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Whether the museum is large or small, public or private, has several curatorial departments or a single director/curator, it must have a way to fulfill its curatorial obligations. Everyone in the museum should understand the institution’s curatorial responsibilities, and every museum should have a curatorial strategy suited to its collection and/or its exhibitions. In this course, students will study principles and practices relating to core curatorial functions, learn about the relationship of curatorship to the museum’s mission, investigate current challenges facing museums and curatorial staff, and consider how technology is changing the ways museums fulfill their curatorial responsibilities. Students will research, write about, and present objects; draft an acquisition proposal; and work almost exclusively in groups for the second half of the semester to create and present an exhibition proposal.