UM’s Natural History Museum’s new home
What’s the coolest thing in the University of Michigan’s Natural History Museum’s new home? Museum Director Amy Harris gives us the inside scoop about the museum in this episode of #OneToughQuestion.
Author: Museum Studies Program
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… John Kannenberg (MSP10) was interviewed for an episode of Brown University’s Public Work podcast, produced by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. This show focuses on public scholarship institutions and projects across a wide spectrum of cultural...
April 19 – Museums at Noon presentation
Speaker: Caitlin Clerkin (PhD candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, April 19 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) Reinstalling Early Greece at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The presenter will discuss her practicum...
Samuel J. Redman presents – A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums (March 2019)
This presentation explores salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums. As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge, and...
A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums
This presentation will explore salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture objects into museums. As a result, questions have arisen for museums such as what to do with stolen artifacts, stolen knowledge,...
April 12 – Museums at Noon presentation
Speaker: Christopher Mulvey (PhD, Anthropology) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, April 12 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) Online Collections and Teaching Whiteness at the University of Michigan Museum of Art The presenter will discuss his work at the University of...
