What is the role of anthropology in a natural history museum in the 21st century? Thinking through the issues bundled up in this question, within this talk I will discuss a new exhibit Cellphone: Unseen Connections that I curated at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History....
Join MSP for a guided tour of “A Gathering,” currently on display at UMMA. The works on view in this exhibition, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges, and more...
March 19 book launch and reception: Join Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania) and Deirdre Hennebury (University of Michigan Museum Studies) as they discuss “Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough: Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York” with author Jeffrey Abt (University of Michigan Frankel Institute). An exploration...
March 13 is Giving Blue Day! Consider supporting the Museum Studies Program. Your gift will help to inaugurate a new, 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...
Unseen Connections: A Natural History of the Cellphone March 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Space 2435, UM North Quad (105 S. State Street) Presentation by Josh Bell, Curator of Globalization at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian and Museum Studies Program 2024 Visiting Scholar What...
Kudos to… Shannon Schmoll (MSP11), the Director of the Michigan State University Abrams Planetarium since 2014, has been elected president-elect of the International Planetarium Society.
