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
We Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices
Online via ZoomWe Need to HEAR Them Out: Addressing the Issue of Nazi Expropriated Art Through the Lens of Recent Policies and Practices Emily Finch (MSP18) April 12 from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm While the Washington Principles, which turned twenty-five in 2023, are admired for...
Museums in Practice series – Access and Museums: Making Meaning through Online and Digital Connections
Online via ZoomJoin us via Zoom for the Museum Studies Program’s third annual Virtual Panel Discussion considering access and accessibility concerns in museum practice. With museum, library, and cultural heritage panelists from the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), Delft University of Technology, and the Smithsonian Institution,...
MSP22 Capstone Presentations
Online via ZoomPresentations 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 ZoomPresentations 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 ZoomKimberly 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 ZoomPlease 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 ZoomIn 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...
Kelsey Museum Flash Talk – In Search of Hamzeh Carr
Online via ZoomIn 1925, the University of Michigan's archaeological expedition to Egypt commissioned artist Hamzeh Carr to make facsimiles of the colorful murals they were discovering, and these images have been widely reproduced ever since. But who was Hamzeh Carr? In preparation for a future exhibition...
Heritage Preservation and Ethics During Upheavals: A Roundtable
Online via ZoomWednesday, April 6th 2022 4:00PM - 5:30PM EST Register in advance for this webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q2qwBPASQZG9OE3mCh1SHw Participants: Raymond Silverman (Professor, History of Art, Michigan) Deirdre L. C. Hennebury (Associate Director, Museum Studies Program, Michigan) Valentina Rozas-Krause (Postdoctoral LSA Collegiate Fellow and Lecturer, Michigan) Moderator: Paroma...
L’Internationale and the Democracy Pavilion for Europe
Online via ZoomL’Internationale’s Democracy Pavilion for Europe aims to reenergize democracy as a desire and practice. It takes the arts’ potential as a starting point for imagining new epistemologies and ethics of living together within the limits of the planet. The pavilion responds to the current political moment...
