Author: Museum Studies Program

Save the date! Oct 23

Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century? October 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director, UM Museum of Art) October 23 at 5:30 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Exploring museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Lisa Cakmak (MSP03) and Katharine Raff (MSP05) who co-curated the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent major exhibition, Myth & Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.  This exhibition marked the North American debut of 58 ancient Roman sculptures from the largest...

Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community

Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur, Oklahoma in 2010, several shifts happened simultaneously:...

Sept 12 Museums@Noon presentation

Where Objects are Placed: reflections on Aa-ashaachi as a guardian of sovereignty and Holisso as a threshold to community Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural...

Kudos for Summer 2025

Kudos to… Lisa Cakmak (MSP03) and Katharine Raff (MSP05) who co-curated the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent major exhibition, Myth & Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.  This exhibition marked the North American debut of 58 ancient Roman sculptures from the largest...

Kudos to our MSP Director!

Kudos to MSP Director, Dr. Ricky Punzalan, who in late August 2025 will be receiving a Society of American Archivists Council Exemplary Service Award for his work with the University of Michigan’s “ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan” Project. ...