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 @ 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...
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...
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.
On February 6, MSP welcomed Gail Anderson, museum consultant, thinker, and author, who shared her perspectives on the changes in museum practice highlighted in the 3rd edition of her seminal volume, Reinventing the Museum: Relevance, Inclusion, and Global Responsibilities (2023)
The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2025 cohort. This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides countless...
