2020-2021 Museum Studies Program Graduate Assistant, Ashley Buzzanca, discusses her experience as a graduate student participating in the 2020 Collections SWAT Team. When I was deciding where to attend graduate school, the SWAT experience...
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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)...
Our UD Museum Studies and History undergraduate and graduate students were busy this summer doing internships in museums and historical sites from Delaware to Ireland and China! From planning future exhibitions, to gaining experience...
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.