Museum Studies Program Director, Carla Sinopoli, was featured in today’s issue of the University Record. “Museums rank near the top of what institutions Americans trust to provide honest information. Because of this trust factor, museums can deal with climate change, race, lots of interesting issues...
This exhibition focuses on the University’s two archaeology museums: the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, founded in 1922, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, founded in 1928. The exhibition traces the growth of the two museums from their earliest collections to the present day and...
Object Lessons Continued: The Second (and Third) Century of University of Michigan Museums and Collections Thursday, November 16 6:30 p.m. U-M Museum of Natural History The University of Michigan bicentennial provides an opportunity to look back at the University’s past and forward to our...
Museums at Noon presentation by Amanda Respess (PhD candidate, Anthropology and History) “Narrative and Nationalism: Islamic Science in American Museum Practice” This talk examines the historical context of the acquisition of Islamicate scientific objects and their inclusion in American collections and exhibitions, which have...
Kudos to… Gina Konstantopoulos (MSP10) Gina recently finished the second year of a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, where she had the opportunity to work in the Near Eastern Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From...
Museums at Noon presentation by Zachary Kopin (PhD, History) “What Happens When a Museum Is Something Other than a Museum?” This talk will discuss what happens to a museum and how it operates when its primary function is not to put its collections on...
