Cities as Living Museums
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Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will be able to appreciate how throughout their long histories the cities of Paris, Rome and Madrid have developed around the central idea of cultural heritage and patrimony. The program offers a unique opportunity to examine how art, architecture and monuments have at different times and in different ways affected urban development, life and culture in three European capitals. The complex relationship between artistic development, politics, economics and ideology will be analyzed in detail by considering how museums, monuments and archaeological sites developed in different periods of modern European history. The course considers the history of art collections, museum centers and attitudes towards antiquities, monuments and archaeological sites. Special attention is given to how underlying concepts in conservation and preservation theory and cultural management have evolved through time.
