On December 1, Katherine Malone-France, the Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, presented an engaging lecture about re-imagining historic sites. As promised, she has provided us with the Trust’s collections management policy as was requested by several attendees....
Join us Friday for Alice Goff’s presentation, “The God behind the Marble: Transcending the Object in the German Museum of Art.” Alice is a PhD post-doc with the Michigan Society of Fellows, and she will speak December 4 at 12:00 pm at the UM...
Congratulations to our partner, the American Museum of Magic, for their recent inclusion in the Google Cultural Institute project. Many of the amazing posters from the museum’s collection have been recently digitized for the world to see. The collection can be seen here.
December 1 at 6:30 pm at the UM Museum of Art auditorium: Katherine Malone-France, Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will explore challenges faced by historic sites and house museums and how the National Trust is working to develop...
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Today's museums are dynamic institutions playing increasingly important roles in the communities they serve. In addition to being a place for collecting, preserving, studying and exhibiting "things," museums have become vital arenas for learning, exploring and negotiating the complex relationships that people have with the social and natural environments in which they live.
In response to this movement, the museum profession has seen significant growth and greater demand for qualified museum specialists. It is an arena that offers many exciting opportunities for the application of knowledge, skills and critical thinking associated with a variety of disciplines.