Author: Museum Studies Program
February 23 – Museums@Noon – Internships in Switzerland and West Africa
February 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Internship experiences at Museum of Natural History of Bern, Switzerland and the Museum of West African Art February 23 from 12:00 – 1:00 Online via Zoom. Patricia Torres-Pineda – MSP24; PhD student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology From...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Stephanie (Brown) Fleming (MSP17) who was a Fulbright semi-finalist this year. She wrote an article about her recent art exhibition in Los Angeles on the Black Art in America website. Stephanie currently has an interactive art installation, Contested Ground, on display in...
Feb 17 – MSP Visiting Scholar Lecture, “Museo Moderno”
Presentation by Victoria Noorthoorn, Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and the Museum Studies Program’s 2026 Visiting Scholar UM Museum of Art – Helmut Stern Auditorium How does art lead the way in creating our possible futures? How do the human imagination...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… recent U-M Biological Anthropology graduate Alexandra Norwood (MSP18, now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Utah) and UMMAA curator Brian Stewart for publishing an article in Quaternary Science Reviews! The article presents a novel application of generalized additive mixed models...
Feb 6 – Kelsey Museum Flash Talk – Learning Through Play: Childhood and Textile Craft in Roman Egypt
Flash Talk | Learning Through Play: Childhood and Textile Craft in Roman Egypt Heidi Hilliker, Middle East Studies; MSP20 Friday, February 6, 2026 at 12pm EST What can a child’s toy teach us about ancient learning? At Karanis, small tools reveal how children in...
