Museum Studies: 2023

MSP23 students, Irma Guzman, Briana Kemmerling, Skyler Leslie, Leopoldo Martinez, present their Capstone project, Community Neighborhood Preservation in Detroit: Tools and Strategies for Engagement in Walking Tours

Visiting scholar, Joshua Bell, leads a workshop, “Exploding Objects – An Anthology of Affordances, Obligations, and Our Interconnections”

Emily Finch (MSP18) presents “We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices”

MSP23 students visit the Kempf House in Ann Arbor

Cohort visit to the Detroit Historical Museum

Tour of the Detroit Historical Museum

Duane Koyawena presents “Hopi R2D2 and the Return of the Force: Star Wars and Indigenous Art”

Students explore the Ann Arbor Hands on Museum

Felix Zamora Gomez (MSP16) leads a tour of “A Gathering” an exhibit that he curated at the UM Museum of Art

Cohort visit to the UM Museum of Natural History

Tour of the UM Museum of Natural History

“Narrating Nubia” exhibit tour led by Bailey Franzoi (MSP21) and Shannon Ness (MSP15)

Visit to the UM Detroit Observatory

Visit to the Arab American National Museum

Museums in Practice series discussion: Access and Museums: Making Meaning through Online and Digital Connections

Visit to UM’s Stephen Clark Map Library

Heidi Hilliker (MSP20) presenting “Competing Interests: Examining Identity Politics in the Display of Ancient Egypt”

Eimeel Castillo’s (MSP18) tour of “Secrets of State: The Declassified History of the Chilean Dictatorship” exhibit

Fall welcome reception at the UM Museum of Art

Site visit to Greenfield Village

MSP23 cohort at The Henry Ford