Oct 13 at 6:30 pm, UMMA auditorium. Geoffrey Emberling (UM Kelsey Museum) will contextualize the horrifying destruction of monuments and looting of sites and museums in the Middle East by the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS). He will discuss western responses to these actions, from government...
We congratulate Graham Beal, the recently retired director, president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Institute of Arts and currently the Hannah Visiting Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University for the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree that he will be receiving at Winter...
Andrea Rottmann (MSP13) recently had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Lonnie Bunch, the Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the topic of LGBTQ engagement. The interview can be seen here.
Cell Block Seven operates as a museum within an operating penitentiary and is dedicated to telling the story of the Michigan Department of Corrections. This presentation will discuss the original goals for the museum, what has been learned in its first year of operation,...
The 2015 annual Michigan Museums Association Conference was held on the campus of the University of Michigan. The Museum Studies Program assisted in coordinating this event, and many of our faculty, alumni, and students participated in a highly successful conference.
