Public programs facilitate dialogue between academics and professionals, informing scholarship and strengthening practice.
Multiple day conferences, year-long colloquia, individual lectures, “conversations” between individuals, hands-on workshops, and Museums at Noon talks featuring our graduate students all contribute to the remarkable richness of MSP offerings.
Video recordings of some MSP lectures are archived for viewing in our Media Gallery.
Lectures
Latest Past Events
Museums, Technologies and Civic Transformations
University of Michigan Museum of ArtPresentation by Seb Chan, Director & CEO of ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne, Australia and the Museum Studies Program's 2025 Visiting Scholar UM Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium Predictably, the first quarter of the 21st century has...
Reinventing the Museum: A Discussion of the Continuing Paradigm Shift
Haven Hall, Eldersveld Room 505 S. State Street, Ann ArborPresentation and conversation with Gail Anderson, museum consultant and author. February 6 at 5:00 pm Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall (505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor) Gail Anderson, museum consultant, thinker, and author, will share her perspectives on the changes in museum practice highlighted...
Unseen Connections: A Natural History of the Cellphone
Space 2435, School of Information 105 S. State Street, Ann ArborSpace 2435, UM North Quad (105 S. State Street) Presentation by Josh Bell, Curator of Globalization at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian and Museum Studies Program 2024 Visiting Scholar What is the role of anthropology in a natural history museum in the...
