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SUMMARY:Object Lessons: Recollecting Museum Histories at Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Kerstin Barndt in collaboration with Richard Barnes and Amanda Krugliak\, with original commissioned artwork by Richard Barnes \nThe history of the modern research university is unthinkable without collecting. At the University Michigan\, the first objects brought to campus in the late 1830s included a piece of copper from the Upper Peninsula\, bird skins\, an Anishinaabe canoe and pressed plants. Today’s collections encompass over 25 million specimens and artifacts. As the last exhibition before the closing of the Natural History Museum in the Ruthven Museums Building\, Object Lessons activates the memory of the museums building and richly illustrates the University of Michigan’s lasting effort to build collections in support of its academic mission and for the public. \nShowcasing original objects dating from 1837 to the present\, Object Lessons affords visitors a synthetic look at 200 years of collecting for science. Museum specimens\, artifacts and documents from the archives bring into focus the University Museum’s importance to early state history\, its first global collecting expeditions\, the changing relationship between culture and nature\, science and religion; and the transformation of research and collecting practices from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Not all of U-M’s historical collections survive; the exhibition reflects this fact by focusing also on the life cycle of collections\, on points of origin and decline\, and on the shifting valorization of objects over time. \nObject Lessons draws on collections housed in the University’s research museums (Paleontology\, Zoology\, and Anthropological Archeology)\, as well as the University Herbarium\, the Museum of Natural History\, the Stephen S. Clark Map Library\, the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments\, the Bentley Historical Library\, and the University of Michigan Library. \nMore information can be found here. \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/object-lessons-recollecting-museum-histories-at-michigan/
LOCATION:MI
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Exhibition - Excavating Archaeology at U-M: 1817‐2017
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment. \nOpening lecture on October 18 in the Pendleton Room at the Michigan Union from 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm.  Reception to follow at the Kelsey Museum from 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm. \n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong \nKelsey Museum location and hours of operation can be found here. \n \n 
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/exhibition-excavating-archaeology-at-u-m-1817%e2%80%902017/
LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, 434  South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000
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SUMMARY:Time to Evolve:  The Histories and Futures of Two University Natural History Museums 
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nJulie Stein – Executive Director\, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture\, University of Washington \nAmy Harris – Director\, Museum of Natural History\, U-M \n  \nUniversity natural history collections were central to the scientific enterprise in the 19th century. Today\, these collections document change over time\, and play critical roles in research\, education\, and cultural heritage. However\, many museums are under-utilized by their local communities. \nIn the 21st century\, campus and museum leaders must rethink the role of the University Museum. As public appetite for engagement and transparency increases\, University Museums are in a unique position to act as a “front door” to academia by offering access to collections and opportunities to connect with the process of scientific research. Some universities are now making significant investments in upgrading their natural history museums\, including the University of Washington and the University of Michigan. \n  \nJulie K. Stein\, Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Nature and Culture at the University of Washington and Amy Harris\, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History will share  stories of their institutions’ development over time\, with particular emphasis on the opportunities presented by their new facilities\, both opening in 2019. \n  \nJulie K. Stein was appointed Executive Director of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in 2005.  Previously she served as the Museum’s Curator of Archaeology.  She also maintains a professor position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington\, and was Divisional Dean of Research\, Computing\, and Facilities for the College of Arts and Sciences.  Stein received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota and her BA degree from Western Michigan University.  Her research interests are in geoarchaeology\, especially studies involving Northwest Coast shell middens.  She has excavated archaeological sites on Washington’s San Juan Islands since 1983\, and she continues to collaborate on research projects involving geoarchaeology. \n  \nSince 2002\, Amy Harris has served as the Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History\, where she was previously Associate Director and Development Officer. Harris received her BA from Cornell and MA from the University of Michigan. Before joining the Museum of Natural History in 1996\, she worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and then became the Development Director of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival (1986-1994). As museum director\, Harris is currently overseeing the planning and development of the new U-M Museum of Natural History\, slated to open fully in fall 2019.  Harris’ decades of commitment to the Museum and her leadership in this new project were recently honored by the establishment of the Amy Harris Director’s Strategic Fund\, a sizeable endowment that will support the Museum’s projects in perpetuity. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the University of Michigan Bicentennial and the UM Museum of Natural History \n  \nStein and Harris Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/time-to-evolve-the-histories-and-futures-of-two-university-natural-history-museums/
LOCATION:U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Digital Aspirations: The Design of an Online Exhibit at a Site of Conscience in Nicaragua
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Allan Martell\, PhD candidate\, Information \nFriday\, December 8 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\, UM Museum of Art auditorium \n  \nDigital Aspirations: The Design of an Online Exhibit at a Site of Conscience in Nicaragua \nSites of conscience serve the public by raising awareness about contemporary issues such as transnational migrations\, racism\, and gender inequalities. Such is the case for the Institute of History of Nicaragua and Central America (IHNCA). In this talk\, I will share my experience designing the concept of a digital exhibit at IHNCA\, and how this project feeds into larger conversations about the contributions of digital technologies to the museum mission. I argue that the way museum professionals talk about digital technologies reveal their aspirations for what a museum can be. However\, such aspirations do not always match the affordances of digital technologies. \n  \nMuseums at Noon_Martell
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-at-noon-december-8/
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CATEGORIES:Museums at Noon
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SUMMARY:Museums of the Past into the Future: The Oriental Institute and the Kelsey Museum
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between: \nChris Woods\, Director\, Oriental Institute\, University of Chicago \nTerry G. Wilfong\, Director\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, U-M \n  \nThe Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan share similar backgrounds and histories. Founded in the prosperity of the 1920s as part of the wider-ranging projects of visionary scholars\, the two archaeological museums focus on an expansive program of investigation of the ancient history of the Mediterranean and Middle East. But these two museums have taken very different paths to the present and face different challenges for the future. The discussion will cover the history of these unique institutions as well as their present situations and future possibilities. \n  \nChristopher Woods is John A. Wilson Professor and Director of the Oriental Institute\, and member of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago. He received his BS from Yale University and his PhD in Assyriology from Harvard University and was a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago. His research interests include Sumerian writing and language as well as early Mesopotamian religion\, literature\, and administration.  He is author of The Grammar of Perspective: The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes as a System of Voice (Brill\, 2008)\, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (Volume 18) and is currently completing a monograph on early cuneiform writing\, The Origins and Development of Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia: A History\, 3500 — 2000 BCE. \n  \nTerry G. Wilfong is Director and Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. Wilfong received his BA\, MA\, and PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. As a scholar\, he has dedicated himself to the Kelsey Museum’s collections from the University’s 1924-1935 excavations of the Egyptian sites of Karanis\, Soknopaiou Nesos\, and Terenouthis\, sites chosen by the original excavators to illustrate daily life in Egypt in the Greek and Roman periods (c. 332 BCE – 641 CE). As a curator and museum director\, Wilfong has used these collections to address wider areas of archaeological inquiry\, including concepts such as gender\, sound\, childhood\, and fire. He has also supervised an ongoing series of contemporary art installations in which artists respond to the ancient material in the Kelsey’s collections. Wilfong has recently published two monographs on ancient Egyptian religion and practices relating to death and burial: Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt (2015)\, and Life\, Death and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt: The Coffin of Djehutymose in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (2012). \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Bicentennial \nWoods and Wilfong Announcement
URL:https://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/museums-of-the-past-into-the-future-the-oriental-institute-and-the-kelsey-museum/
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