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.
2016 Museum Studies Visiting Scholar presentation: The Challenges of Pursing Intentionality
The Cycle of Intentional Practice requires that museums clarify the impact they would like to achieve on their publics and realign all practices and resources to achieve that impact. Clarifying impact, though, requires a knowledge of the museum’s organizational self and the public. Given...
Building Collections, Building Knowledge, Building Publics: Diversity at the Huntington
Founded in 1919, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens originated with the collections of Henry and Arabella Huntington. As of 2014, nearly three-quarters of a million people visit the grounds and buildings annually. In recent years, the Huntington has become more intentional...
University of Michigan Living Lab Symposium
UM child development researchers who work in the Living Lab Program will be presenting exciting findings from our latest studies. There will be lots of room for discussion about child development, with a great mix of parents, teachers, and researchers in the room! Who...
MSP15 Student Capstone Presentations
Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm Hospital Arts Bedside Museum Program Presented by Amy Albanese, Allan Martell, and Michael Pascual Host institution: University of Michigan Gifts of Art Program Challenge: Assist U-M Hospital’s Gifts of Art program to develop a program...
MSP15 Student Capstone Presentations
Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm: Re-creating a Thriving Gallery Space at the U-M Detroit Center Presented by Crystal Labrosse, Kyle Frisina, and Timnet Gedar Host institution: University of Michigan Detroit Center Challenge: To plan a season of 8-10 exhibitions for...
New Voices and Detroit Museums: From Midtown and Beyond
Today, the city of Detroit is once again taking its place at the heart of the United States’ cultural landscape—as a center of creativity, imagination, artistic production and social activism. Playing a key role in the new-found optimism that is taking root in Detroit...
Less than Perfect exhibition
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MILocation: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology In our society, we are taught to strive for and expect perfection. Yet throughout our lives, we learn as much or more from our flaws and failures as we do from our successes. Less Than Perfect celebrates failure and the lessons...
“Less than Perfect” – exhibition opening lecture
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesSeptember 21, MSP Director and Curator/Professor of Archaeology, Carla Sinopoli, will present an opening lecture about the exhibit that she curated, "Less Than Perfect." The lecture will be held at the UM Museum of Art at 6:00 pm, and a reception will follow at...
Negotiating Slavery? The Politics of Memory and the Transformations of a State Museum in Colombia
University of Michigan Museum of Art, First Floor, Multi-Purpose Room 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesIn a context of controversy surrounding the peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla movement, the country’s museums are currently experiencing deep transformations. State museums in particular face the challenge of becoming more democratic and inclusive institutions even as they remain...
Taking a Look in the Mirror: Transformative Change within Museums
U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesLocation: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Museums do not exist in a vacuum. The external environment around museums is in a state of constant change. Yet, it seems as though museums continue to approach diversity and inclusion work through community...
