Author: Museum Studies Program

Take a look at this interesting article about digital challenges in museums, galleries, libraries, and archives.

This is a fascinating article about how museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art, think about art, design, and the public. “A few weeks ago, architects and art fans issued a bit of a collective freakout over a report that the Museum of Modern Art...

Upon reading through the May/June 2016 issue of “Museum,” a publication by the American Alliance of Museums, we discovered a nice surprise.  Museum Studies was originally called the Museum Practice Program, and it was founded by Charles Sawyer in 1959.  Mr. Sawyer and our...

Congratulations to museum studies minor alumni, Charlie Engelman, whose team won a grant from the National Geographic Society. Charlie’s group has created a series called “Nature Boom Time” about trees and forests which airs on the Nat Geo WILD channel. You can view episodes...

Explore Detroit’s changing cultural landscape and the role the city’s museums are playing in shaping the city’s present and future.  Museum leaders and emerging professionals will share their visions for renewed interest in the potential offered by Detroit’s public spaces.  Participating museums/cultural institutions include...

Join us April 11 or 13 to hear presentations by our current cohort about the museum projects they have been working on throughout this semester.  Students have worked on projects at these sites:  the Motown Museum, UM Gifts of Art, Pewabic Pottery, and UM...