The Yale University Art Gallery Collection-Sharing Initiative

SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHING WITH MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Investigations into the Ancient Mediterranean

Between 2010 and 2012, the Hood Museum of
Art took part in an innovative pilot program that
enabled the Yale University Art Gallery to lend
forty-seven ancient Mediterranean objects to the Hood for
a two-year period beginning in December 2010. Initiated
by Yale and funded by a generous grant from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, this collection-sharing project is
intended to foster intra- and inter-institutional collaboration
and expand opportunities for Dartmouth faculty
from all disciplines to teach from works of art. Central
to the initiative is a program of strategic loans from
Yale’s encyclopedic collection, comprising nearly 200,000
works, to six “partner museums” for use in specially
developed projects and related coursework. The program
was created based on the belief that while technologies
have increased access to museum collections, there is
no substitute for the experience of learning from original
works of art.
Dartmouth faculty and students from a range of disciplines,
including art history, classics, religion, and history,
made use of both the Yale loans and works from the Hood
collection to explore how the close observation of works
of art can reveal connections to wider cultural, religious,
political, and social themes. This film documents the
teaching and research that came out of this project and
serves as a resource for students, teachers, and museum
professionals interested in the ancient Mediterranean.

Produced by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and
Dartmouth Media Production Group.

All object stills © Yale University Art Gallery / ©Hood Museum of Art,
Dartmouth College

© Trustees of Dartmouth College

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