News & Publications

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...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Abgail Celis (MSP11) recently published an article about France’s National Museum of Immigration’s “Gifts Gallery.”  The article, “Refusing the ‘Gift’ of Integration:  Narratives of Migration at the Galerie des dons,” was published in French Politics, Culture and Society and can be found...

Apply to the Museum Studies Program!

The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2023 cohort.  This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides countless...