Leaders from the Harvard University and University of Michigan’s museums of natural history and comparative zoology will discuss the current historic and scientific importance of such museums for today’s understanding of and research into ecosystems and evolutionary biology that impact the increasing changes to...
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology conservator Suzanne Davis will provide an introduction to the field of conservation: what conservators do and where they work, how to become a conservator, some of the issues conservators are concerned about today, and how her work supports the Museum’s...
On Wednesday, 18 October, the Kelsey Museum will be opening its latest exhibition, Excavating Archaeology. Professor Sue Alcock will give the opening lecture at 6pm at the Union, Pendleton Room. A reception at the Kelsey Museum to see the exhibition will follow.
Thursday, October 12 at 5:30 pm in the Museum of Natural History: “Object Lessons: Recollecting Museum Memories at Michigan” gallery talk and reception with curators Kerstin Barndt & Amanda Krugliak & photographer Richard Barnes The history of the modern research university is unthinkable without collecting....
The schedule for our fall series, Transforming Education: Conversations About the Past, Present and Future of University Museums is now complete! When the University of Michigan was first imagined in 1817, its founders envisioned museums as essential to the ambitious educational system they...
Kudos to… Alison Vacca (MSP09), an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. She has two recent publications: “The Fires of Naxčawan” in Le Muséon, and a book titled Non-Muslim Provinces under early Islam, released in 2017.
