Category: Gallery
Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century?
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 and Portugal visited on a recent sabbatical, museum director Christina Olsen wrestles with museums’ changing shapes...
Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor
Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor Presentation by Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as repositories of information, where data-intensive work has been conducted for decades. Like other...
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:...
Museums, Technologies and Civic Transformations
Predictably, the first quarter of the 21st century has seen museums significantly transformed by media technology and networked society, yet often this has been viewed as institutions reacting to, rather than leading change. Institutions are now deeply enmeshed in complex technological systems, platforms, and...
Museum Studies: 2024
Visual souvenirs from the twenty-second cohort of the Museum Studies graduate certificate program
