Experts speak. Colleagues discuss. Students engage . . . and have fun. The Video and Photo Galleries offer a window into some of the many memorable events and activities organized by the Museum Studies Program. Topical colloquia, lectures, and workshops about issues in museum studies feature prominent scholars and practitioners who examine a wide range of current issues facing the museum world. Our video samples convey the range of ideas and interests explored within the Museum Studies Program. The photos take you inside the world of our students and scholars, visually documenting their work and the life of the program.
Dr. Margaret Bruchac, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss strategies for recovering Indigenous object histories through material analyses, consultation, and re-assessments of imposed museological categories that may have distanced objects from their origins. She will reveal how memories can...
William S. Pretzer, Senior Curator of History at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) explores the American story through the lens of the African American experience as displayed at the NMAAHC — a museum regarded as exhibiting one of...
This presentation will explore salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums. As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge,...
The Jim Crow Museum is the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of racist artifacts. Located on the campus of Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, the museum houses more than 12,000 objects—primarily, but not exclusively, segregation era artifacts and everyday anti-black caricatured objects....
Reimagining the Historic House Museum Historic house museums are the most numerous and often, most conventional, U.S. museum type. This event brings together leaders who are transforming house museums to tell new stories and create new experiences. This is one of five videos...
Reimagining the Historic House Museum Historic house museums are the most numerous and often, most conventional, U.S. museum type. This event brings together leaders who are transforming house museums to tell new stories and create new experiences. This is one of five videos...