Facing the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes on the site of the Warsaw ghetto and prewar Jewish neighborhood, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews completes the memorial complex. At the monument, we honor those who died by remembering how they died. At...
Graham Beal, the recently retired director, president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and currently the Hannah Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, received a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree at the December 20 winter commencement ceremony. Graham...
Greetings and Happy Holidays from the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program! The approaching end of the calendar year provides a good opportunity to look back on the past year and forward to the coming one, and bring you up to date on our...
On December 1, Katherine Malone-France, the Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, presented an engaging lecture about re-imagining historic sites. As promised, she has provided us with the Trust’s collections management policy as was requested by several attendees....
Join us Friday for Alice Goff’s presentation, “The God behind the Marble: Transcending the Object in the German Museum of Art.” Alice is a PhD post-doc with the Michigan Society of Fellows, and she will speak December 4 at 12:00 pm at the UM...
Congratulations to our partner, the American Museum of Magic, for their recent inclusion in the Google Cultural Institute project. Many of the amazing posters from the museum’s collection have been recently digitized for the world to see. The collection can be seen here.
