News & Publications
March 26 – The Museum as Kaleidoscope: On Plantations Past and Present in Louisiana
March 26 from 3:00 – 4:15 pm Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad) and online. What do we see when we look at a museum? Jarrett Martin Drake will attempt a response to this question by carefully considering the Angola Museum outside of the Louisiana...
March 25 – The Legacy of Art and the Nazis Before and After the Holocaust
Please join SHARE for its final evening of the 2024 Conference, for which we are excited to present University of Michigan History of Art Professor Shelley Perlove. Professor Perlove specializes in Italian and Dutch art of the seventeenth century. Her scholarly interests include art and...
Unseen Connections: A Natural History of the Cellphone
What is the role of anthropology in a natural history museum in the 21st century? Thinking through the issues bundled up in this question, within this talk I will discuss a new exhibit Cellphone: Unseen Connections that I curated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History....
March 22 Exhibit tour at UMMA – “A Gathering”
Join MSP for a guided tour of “A Gathering,” currently on display at UMMA. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more...
March 19 book launch & reception: “Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough”
March 19 book launch and reception: Join Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania) and Deirdre Hennebury (University of Michigan Museum Studies) as they discuss “Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York” with author Jeffrey Abt (University of Michigan Frankel Institute). An exploration...
Support MSP on Giving Blue Day!
March 13 is Giving Blue Day! Consider supporting the Museum Studies Program. Your gift will help to inaugurate a new, practice-oriented museum studies seminar format that pairs teaching faculty with curators, conservators, educators, and collection managers working in our on-campus museums. Your contribution, big...