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.
The Rackham workshop, Making Sensory Ethnography (MSE), offers a collaborative and interdisciplinary space for students, faculty, and professionals to showcase unfinished projects and discuss the process of experimenting with ethnographic methods, forms, and content. The workshop convenes around the prefix sensory as a...
Growing Protocols: Documenting the Collaborative Process within the Heritage Seeds for Sustainable Lifeways Project Collaboration between museums and Native American communities has overwhelmingly centered on either museum exhibitions or legally-mandated processes such as those based on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation...
MSP Director, Carla Sinopoli, and MSP Steering Committee member, Kerstin Barndt, have collaborated on a UM bicentennial book to highlight the history of the university’s museum collections. The book, “Object Lessons & the Formation of Knowledge,” presents a full color journey through the treasures of...
