How do we create a collections policy? How do we document donations of artifacts and what should you say – and not say – and do for your donors? We have bugs and rodents; what do we do? What are agents of deterioration? How do we number...
This letter from the field was shared with MSP by Heloise Finch, MSP05 How often do you buy something on Amazon? Do you buy the same things that you would in a store? As consumers we love Amazon. It’s so easy to flit...
Kudos to… Grace Mahoney (MSP16) completed her practicum at the Literary Memorial Museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Kiev. During her time at the museum, she created the Bolgakov Digital Collection. This collection has been featured in the winter 2020 UM digital library magazine: https://magazine.lib.umich.edu/winter-2020/...
Kudos to… Joe Cialdella (MSP09) has just published a book, Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit. The book is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. It focuses primarily on...
The Michigan Museums Association seeks proposals on all aspects of museum work for concurrent sessions to take place during the annual MMA conference. The conference will be held October 21-23, 2020 in Port Huron. This conference is a great way museum professionals and graduate...
March 13 Emily Cornish (PhD candidate, History of Art) Collecting Oceania March 19 Jeremy York (PhD candidate, Information) Preserving Context for Museum Collections: Implications, Challenges, Strategies March 20 Bradley Taylor (Associate Director, Museum Studies Program) Reconstructing History/Reimagining Originality: The Case of Henry...
