News & Publications

March 15 is Giving Blue Day!

March 15 is Giving Blue Day! Consider supporting the Museum Studies Program. Past and present directors of MSP have committed to match your contribution. Your gift will help to inaugurate a new, practice-oriented museum studies seminar format that pairs teaching faculty with curators, conservators, educators, and...

March 16 – MSP Visiting Scholar keynote presentation

The Seduction, Refusal, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care Keynote presentation by MSP Visiting Scholar, Cara Krmpotich, Associate Professor and museum anthropologist, faculty of Information, Director, Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto March 16 at 5:00 pm, Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall Universality...

March 13 & 14 – A Storm Was Coming

A Storm Was Coming The Museum Studies Program is proud to co-sponsor a film screening and workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez. A Storm was Coming:Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández VázquezMonday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm – 7:00 pmat Palmer...

MSP@20 celebration

The Museum Studies Program is celebrating our 20 year anniversary.  We will begin on Thursday, March 16 with a keynote presentation by our Visiting Scholar, Cara Krmpotich, Associate Professor and museum anthropologist, faculty of Information, and Director of the Museum Studies Program at the University...

March 9 & 10 presentations by Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, PhD: Genocide Ideology and Denial in Rwanda / Building the Gacaca Digital Archive

U-M Guest Speaker:  Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, PhD, former Director General of the Research and Documentation Center on Genocide at the Rwanda National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG)11:30 AM – 1:00 PM, ETThursday, March 9Genocide ideology and denial in RwandaAbstract & bio North Quad Space...

Toledo Museum of Art symposium, July 21

On July 21, 2023 the Toledo Museum of Art will be hosting a one-day Symposium Expanding Horizons: New Approaches in Display and Interpretation that will bring together representatives from various US-Museums that have re-envisioned or are re-envisioning the presentations of their collections to tell more just...