Museum Studies: 2009
Visual souvenirs of the seventh cohort of the MSP graduate program and the undergraduate program.
Category: Gallery
Difficult Heritage
Sharon Macdonald, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, England How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of such a past? What are the...
Hijacking History: Culture, Politics, and Exhibition at the Smithsonian
A lecture by Kristin Hass, the fifth and final presentation in the Winter 2007 lecture series, Exhibiting Controversy: From Mapplethorpe to “Body Worlds” and Beyond. Kristin Hass presents the National Museum of American History’s exhibit The Price of Freedom: Americans at War as a...
Spoiling Public Spaces: Exhibiting Racist Artifacts in a Public Museum
A lecture by David Pilgrim, the fourth presentation in the Winter 2007 lecture series, Exhibiting Controversy: From Mapplethorpe to “Body Worlds” and Beyond. Using The Jim Crow Museum as an example, David Pilgrim will discuss the challenges and controversies involved in displaying racist objects...
