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.
While there is so far no known cure for Covid and the disease continues to kill thousands daily around the globe, humanity has spent the better part of this year attempting to make do – some by doing their best to protect themselves and...
Presenters: Grace Mahoney (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Félix Zamora-Gómez (PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures) Overview: How do curatorial works and memorial sites simultaneously serve as tools for constructing national identities and as materials in a state’s claim for transnational reputation? How...
In its Midtown district, Detroit boasts a concentrated set of high-powered cultural institutions. Clustered around the DIA, they include the Detroit Historical Museum, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center, and the Detroit Public Library. In recent years,...
In this conversation, two participants will discuss a different project that they were involved with at The Henry Ford Museum: Reconstructing History/Reimagining Originality: The Case of Henry Ford’s English Preservations (Bradley Taylor, Associate Director Emeritus, Museum Studies Program) As the Stock Market Crash of...
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...