Kudos to…. Henrike Florusbosch (MSP03) has just been named as the new chief administrator at the UM Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. After teaching anthropology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Henrike returned to U-M to manage the African Studies Center within the International Institute,...
Kudos to… Eric Lehrer (MSP04), sociocultural anthropologist, curator, and Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, has been selected as one of the University of Michigan’s 2025-26 Frankel Institute Fellows. Erica’s fields of research are memory/heritage/museums, Jewish-Polish heritage, and decolonial museology in East...
Thursday, October 9, 2025 5:30-7:30 PM Museum of Natural History ScentStories: Exploring the Plant World Through AI & Aroma Farrand Memorial Lecture 2025 From the field to the future, researchers are finding new ways to understand the world around us through scent. Join...
Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century? October 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Presentation by Christina Olsen (Director, UM Museum of Art) October 23 at 5:30 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Exploring museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium...
Kudos to… Lisa Cakmak (MSP03) and Katharine Raff (MSP05) who co-curated the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent major exhibition, Myth & Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection. This exhibition marked the North American debut of 58 ancient Roman sculptures from the largest...
Museums@Noon presentation by Veronica Williamson (MSP20; PhD candidate, Germanic Language & Literature) September 12 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm Hatcher Gallery Lab, Room 100H When the Chickasaw Cultural Center’s 184-acre campus opened just outside of downtown Sulphur, Oklahoma in 2010, several shifts happened simultaneously:...
