Working in concert with the University of Delaware Anti-Racism Initiative and a range of professional and community partners, students in our Collections Management course (MSST 401/601) built a digital catalog that aggregates artifacts related...
Please join the UDMuseum Studies Program for our first alumni networking event, designed in response to alumni feedback! Come share and learn in small breakout rooms about career goal-setting, work-life balance, jobs outside...
With concern for the difficulties facing our students and our field at this moment, I’d like to introduce myself as the new Director of the Museum Studies Program and ask for your help. As...
Have you noticed the newest section in MuseWeekly? Muse-ings features a brief commentary about job searching and/or labor in the museum field as part of an effort to help readers navigate and build their...
Dr. Edward Porter Alexander (January 11, 1907 – July 31, 2003) was an American historian, museum administrator, educator and author. He served for nearly 30 years as vice-president for interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg (1946–1972)...
What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?
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As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.
University of Delaware to explore slavery legacy at the Newark campus
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UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.
Security guards become guest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art
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The forthcoming show, developed with the help of art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, aims to highlight a “multiplicity of curatorial voices in major institutions”
While Serving Visitors, New Director Wants Cherokee Indian Museum To Focus On Own Community
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People associate the sound of a lone wooden flute as traditionally Native American. And while this sound accompanies the centerpiece video on the Visit