Students Get Up Close to, and Behind, Museum Art
Holding classes in Bowdoin's Museum of Art gives students the chance to explore the archive’s thousands of objects. Or as the Offer of the College promises, to “count Art a familiar friend.”
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Art History at Bowdoin offers courses that examine works of art in their historical, social, religious, and philosophical contexts. Students study not only the formal aesthetic values of these works, but also the ways in which they reflect the cultures and the personalities that produced them.