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Apply to join MSP!
The Museum Studies Program is currently accepting applications for the 2018 Cohort. The program is a 12-credit certificate program (plus funded practicum) that immerses students in the theory and practice of working with objects, the stories they tell, and the places where they reside. Applications...
Alumni kudos!
Kudos to… Julie Feldt (MSP12) continues to work at the Adler Planetarium as the Citizen Science Education Coordinator, where she has been developing college course curriculum for Introduction to Astronomy courses using data from the Zooniverse’s Galaxy Zoo project to create a research experience...
Feb 16 – historic house workshop
February 16 – “Re-Imagining the Historic House Museum” workshop from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm at the Michigan League (Koessler Room) Historic house museums are the most numerous and often, most conventional, U.S. museum type. This event brings together leaders who are transforming house...
February 21 – New Archaeology Music at Kelsey Museum, 6-7 PM
New Archaeology Music Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:00–7:00 PM The Kelsey Museum will host an event inspired by 1,800-year-old music! In the early 1900s, U-M archaeologists working at the Graeco-Roman site of Karanis, Egypt, excavated a piece of ancient sheet music written on papyrus. For...
Alumni kudos!
Ana Silva (MSP 12) has been announced as the recipient of a prestigious University of Michigan fellowship with the Institute for the Humanities for 2017/18.