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.

Online via Zoom

Events at this venue

Today

  • Virtual Open House for prospective students

    Online via Zoom

    The Museum Studies Program invites students enrolled in any graduate program at the University of Michigan to apply for the Fall 2026 cohort. This multidisciplinary graduate certificate program draws on ideas from the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology and provides countless...

  • Museums@Two presentation by Alexandria Rayburn

    Online via Zoom

    Women in museum computing: a brief history of data entry & skilled labor  Alexandria Rayburn (MSP 19; PhD, Information) October 9 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm Online via Zoom Museum collections are many things, but primarily they function as repositories of information, where data-intensive...

  • MSP22 Capstone Presentations

    Online via Zoom

    Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm “Marking the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum’s 25th Anniversary” Presented by Hannah Edwards, Charlotte Juergens, Shiyuan Wang Challenge statement: To identify and propose programming to boost both local engagement with the museum and international recognition of...

  • MSP 22 Capstone Presentations

    Online via Zoom

    Presentations for this evening are as follows: 6:00 pm “Expanding Narrating Nubia's Network:”  Best Practices for Online Exhibition and Access" Presented by Tori Herzig-Deribin, Tessa Oliveira, Abigail Staub Challenge statement:  To develop robust resources and best practice recommendations for the development of an online...

  • Exploring the past and shaping the future in archives and collections (Museums@Noon)

    Online via Zoom

    Kimberly Ransom, PhD, MSP18, Illinois Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Education Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank While interning at Rebuild Foundation’s Stony Island Arts Bank (SAB) in Chicago, Kimberly Ransom has reviewed the objects and documents in...

  • Digitizing the Dodo: Three-Dimensional Digitization for Research and Public Outreach at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

    Online via Zoom

    Please join us for a Museums at Noon conversation! Digitizing the Dodo: Three-Dimensional Digitization for Research and Public Outreach at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History  Presenter:  Taylor West (PhD candidate, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) Date:  Friday, December 2 Time:  12:00 pm Location:  Online via...

  • Museum Collections: Considering Access & Transparency through Visible Storage

    Online via Zoom

    In recent years, museums have increasingly turned to open storage techniques to display parts of their collection which would otherwise not be on public view.  Though this approach still feels somewhat radical, the concept of visible storage in museum practice started at the University...