News & Publications
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Comfort Mtotha (MSP19) recently published her article, “The “Saint” of Livingstonia: Assembling, Memorializing, and Representation of Missionary Paraphernalia at the Stone House Museum in Malawi” in Museum of Anthropology.
April 4 Museums@Noon – From Lubaina Himid to the Battle of Bamber Bridge: Curating and Narrating Black Atlantic Stories in British Museums and Communities
Speaker: Alan Rice, PhD, Fulbright Scholar; Professor of English and American Studies; Director of the Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora & Exile; Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom When: 12:00 pm on April 4 Where: Eldersveld...
Support MSP on Giving Blue Day!
March 19 is Giving Blue Day! Consider supporting the Museum Studies Program. Your gift will help to support a 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 or...
March 19 – Museums, Technologies and Civic Transformations
March 19 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Presentation by Seb Chan, Director & CEO of ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne, Australia and the Museum Studies Program’s 2025 Visiting Scholar UM Museum of Art – Helmut Stern Auditorium Predictably, the first...
Inaugural Conference on Community Archaeology & Heritage (March 14 & 15)
Michigan League, Michigan Room Friday–Saturday, March 14–15, 2025 Recognizing the importance of collaboration with local communities in archaeological research and heritage practice, the University of Michigan is launching a new Center for Community Archaeology and Heritage. In this inaugural conference, we will highlight the...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Susan Dine (MSP15), Senior Lecturer in Asian Art & Architecture, has created a proposal for a museum studies minor that has been approved by Vanderbilt University.