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2015 Annual Michigan Museums Association Conference

The 2015 annual Michigan Museums Association Conference was held on the campus of the University of Michigan.  The Museum Studies Program assisted in coordinating this event, and many of our faculty, alumni, and students participated in a highly successful conference.

Oct 23 brown bag – Cell Block Seven Prison Museum

Cell Block Seven operates as a museum within an operating penitentiary and is dedicated to telling the story of the Michigan Department of Corrections.  This presentation will discuss the original goals for the museum, what has been learned in its first year of operation,...

DIA’s former director, Graham Beal, to receive honorary degree from UM

We congratulate Graham Beal, the recently retired director, president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Institute of Arts and currently the Hannah Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University for the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree that he will be receiving at Winter...