This spring, two graduate students and six undergraduates worked together to develop new interpretive activities for the Amstel House of the New Castle Historical Society. Tess Frydman and Sara McNamara completed internships by leading...
It all began as class project in the Intro to Museum Studies course. Even though the class ended in December 2016, the students were just getting started. After almost two years of meetings with politicians...
Can art change lives? The Delaware Department of Correction certainly thinks so. And Museum Studies student Bridget Killian agrees. In 1979, the James T. Vaughn Male Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware has run a...
How many Museum Studies students does it take to create an exhibition? For the Arden Craft Shop Museum, the answer is four: two alums and two current students. Dr. Liz Jones-Minsinger, the current curator...
A hardy CONGRATULATIONS to all our Museum Studies students that graduated this weekend! We are so proud of each and every one of you and know your futures are bright. We will miss having you around, so please stay in touch!
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The Field’s First Major Exhibit by an Indigenous Curator
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Nina Sanders's “Apsáalooke Women and Warriors” sees the museum reckoning with its legacy of Native erasure.“We are not responsible for a past on which we had no influence. However, we are responsible for what we do about that past today. Above all, we owe the truth to the victims of past crimes, and the truth is fueled by an open and factual discussion." -Dariusz Stola & Piotr Wiślicki
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Nationalist Governments Are Trying To Rewrite Holocaust History — By Targeting Museums
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The acclaimed director of a Jewish museum criticized Poland's nationalist government. Now he’s out of a job.