Kudos to MSP Director, Dr. Ricky Punzalan, who in late August 2025 will be receiving a Society of American Archivists Council Exemplary Service Award for his work with the University of Michigan’s “ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan” Project. ...
Kudos to… Estrella Salgado (MSP21) who has been offered a prestigious 2025-26 J. Paul Getty Trust Internship. As a graduate intern in the President’s Office, Estrella will be working on strategic initiatives across the institution and, especially, with the VX Initiative and the Getty...
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...
