Kudos to… museum studies minor alumnus and evolutionary biologist Charlie Engelman. As a UM senior, Charlie competed with 700 applicants to win the National Geographic Channel’s Expedition Granted contest. The $50,000 prize funded the production of an online video series chronicling Charlie’s adventures in...
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History began a large redisplay project in April of this year, with the goal of developing and installing 20 new permanent exhibits in the main court of the Museum. I traveled to Oxford University for my UM Museum...
The Sindecuse Museum would like to invite you all to come get a guided tour with the Guest Curator of our latest exhibit, “Dentistry/Artistry: Passions of a Creative Mind,” Adam Johnson (Collections Coordinator) and Dr. Stephen Stefanac (a recently retired faculty member from the School of...
Please join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! Digitizing the Dodo: Three-Dimensional Digitization for Research and Public Outreach at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History Presenter: Taylor West (PhD candidate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) Date: Friday, December 2 Time: 12:00 pm Location: Online via Zoom (Meeting...
Beyond the Written Record: Exploring Past Sounds, Tastes, Smells, Vistas, and Touches Friday, December 2, 12 pm • Workshop • 1014 Tisch Hall An EIHS Multi-sensory Presentation Series and Roundtable DiscussionThe past does not just consist of written words which are stowed away in archives. Just like we today,...
In recent years, museums have increasingly turned to “open storage” techniques to display parts of their collection which would otherwise not be on public view. The foundations for this decades-long trend are found in the impulse to democratize museums with “visible” storage being touted as one...
Christiana Sinacola — “Conversations from the Herbarium”
April 18, 2024
