The Campus Art Museum - Samuel H. Kress Foundation

its collections into courses tends to take both professors and their students to
unplanned and unexplored places, resulting in a kind of excitement that is palpable.
A Classics professor has used the campus art museum in his courses since he
arrived at the university. He was taken to the museum when he interviewed for the
job, and he now takes new candidates there when they interview. He stated, “Here
we are out in the middle of the country and we get these candidates who have lived
nowhere but the coasts and they think this is a great cultural wasteland, [until] we
bring them into the museum and they say, ‘Wow, you guys really have something
going on here.’” Faculty and students across the country are discovering the same
thing. Encouraged by museum staff who have made academic involvement part
of their mission, faculty and students across the disciplines are learning how
the academic art museum can expand horizons, opening up a breadth of ideas,
creativity, and possibilities.
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