Category: Gallery
Curating Covid: Material and Visual Cultures of the Pandemic
While there is so far no known cure for Covid and the disease continues to kill thousands daily around the globe, humanity has spent the better part of this year attempting to make do – some by doing their best to protect themselves and...
Museum Narratives and Transnational Reputations: History, State Legitimacy, and Contested Heritage in Ukraine and Spain
Presenters: Grace Mahoney (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures) Félix Zamora-Gómez (PhD candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures) Overview: How do curatorial works and memorial sites simultaneously serve as tools for constructing national identities and as materials in a state’s claim for transnational reputation? How...
Reimagining Detroit’s Museum and Cultural District
In its Midtown district, Detroit boasts a concentrated set of high-powered cultural institutions. Clustered around the DIA, they include the Detroit Historical Museum, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center, and the Detroit Public Library. In recent years,...
Learning from History at The Henry Ford – Two Perspectives
In this conversation, two participants will discuss a different project that they were involved with at The Henry Ford Museum: Reconstructing History/Reimagining Originality: The Case of Henry Ford’s English Preservations (Bradley Taylor, Associate Director Emeritus, Museum Studies Program) As the Stock Market Crash of...
MSP20 held first class session in the Arboretum!
The Museum Proseminar began the Fall term outdoors and is now meeting on-line due to Covid-19.
