The 2025 General Conference of WORKLAB – International Association of Labor Museums – will take place in Hamburg, hosted by the Museum der Arbeit from November 5-7. This year’s theme is: Workers’ Culture In an era of growing social and economic inequality, the...
Predictably, the first quarter of the 21st century has seen museums significantly transformed by media technology and networked society, yet often this has been viewed as institutions reacting to, rather than leading change. Institutions are now deeply enmeshed in complex technological systems, platforms, and...
Kudos to… Hannah Edwards (MSP22) and her work with the Digital Study of Kelsey Objects (DiSKO). Launched in August 2024, DiSKO is a multiyear initiative developed by a dynamic team of educators, digital data specialists, and students at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Their...
Kudos to… Heidi Hilliker (MSP20) who visited the Sohag National Museum in Sohag, Egypt, this past winter to see the fully installed exhibition that she and Janet Richards (Kelsey museum curator and Abydos Middle Cemetery (AMC) project director) had worked on. Designed, conserved, and...
The MSP24 cohort spent a day visiting the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills.
Kudos to…. Abigail Celis (MSP11) was a collaborator in creating a new exhibition this fall. Abi is an assistant professor in Art History and Museum Studies at the Université de Montréal, with a background in cultural studies. She co-created The Catalogue of Speculative Translations...
