Reflections on a Museum

Over the past two years, the curatorial and education staff at the Williams College Museum of Art and art department faculty have been re-examining the museum's collection and re-thinking what it means to present works of art in a museum on a liberal arts campus. Reflections on a Museum, the thought-provoking results of these far-reaching conversations, will go on view during the spring semester. Featuring some 400 works from the collection-from old favorites to rarely seen works- Reflections on a Museum is conceived as a series of eight open-ended exhibition propositions, taking "the museum" as its subject. Each exhibition raises questions about the function and meaning of art across time and cultures and the role of museums in shaping understandings of art.