Experimental art by definition involves process, discovery, contingency, and the possibility of failure. Museums, by contrast, are institutions traditionally dedicated to the care and preservation of artifacts with permanent value. What then are the possibilities for experiencing experimental work within a museum? Using recent acquisitions of contemporary art by the Princeton University Art Museum as case studies, students will investigate questions of historiography, pedagogy, transgression, critical exhibition practices, and curatorial ethics. The course culminates in a collaboratively conceived exhibition to be held in the Princeton University Art Museum Works on Paper Study Room in conjunction with the display of Lygia Clark, Bicho (Máquina), 1962.