How do museums engage with local communities? This panel offers first-hand experience with different models of museum-based community practice. With its exhibit “Frankfurt Jetzt” (Frankfurt Now) & Stadtlabor (City Laboratory), Frankfurt’s historical museum has turned to the city’s residents as experts and invited them to participate...
In this session, Cody Thompson and Kendra Phelps will discuss their article, “Preserve a Voucher Specimen! The Critical Need for Integrating Natural History Collections in Infectious Disease Studies,” published in January 2021. With COVID-19 as an example of the failed merger of host-pathogen research...
Presenter: Zoe Ortiz (PhD candidate, Classical Art & Archaeology) The Louvre Museum is perhaps the most well-known museum in the entire world. To walk its halls and view its art is more than visiting a museum, it’s experiencing history itself. The museum came into...
Visual souvenirs from the eighteenth cohort of the Museum Studies graduate certificate program.
