Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Emily Finch (MSP18) has been accepted into the Association for Research into Crimes against Art Postgraduate Certificate Program. Emily will be spending the summer in Italy studying art crime and cultural heritage protection.
Author: Museum Studies Program
Exploring the past and shaping the future in archives and collections
Kimberly Ransom, PhD, MSP18, Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank While interning at Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank (SAB) in Chicago, Kimberly Ransom has reviewed the objects and documents in...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Taylor West (MSP21) who has recently begun a position as a Micro-CT Scanning Specialist within the Core Research Laboratories at the Natural History Museum in London.
Capstone presentations April 10 & 12
April 10 presentations: 6:00 pm “Expanding Narrating Nubia’s Network:” Best Practices for Online Exhibition and Access” Presented by Tori Herzig-Deribin, Tessa Oliveira, Abigail Staub Challenge statement: To develop robust resources and best practice recommendations for the development of an online component of the Narrating Nubia exhibition, to be...
April 7 – Exploring the past and shaping the future in archives and collections (Museums@Noon)
Kimberly Ransom, PhD, MSP18, Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank While interning at Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank (SAB) in Chicago, Kimberly Ransom has reviewed the objects and documents in...
The Seduction, Refusal, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care
Universality as an intellectual and ethical imperative has substantially shaped museum work, including the management and care of collections. Critiques of the universal—including universal museums—contribute to current and necessary conversations encouraging the decolonization of cultural institutions. At the same time, the ethical impetus of...
