University of Delaware Museum Studies Program
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Newark, DE 19716-2547
Phone: (302) 831-1251 | Fax: (302) 831-4461
Program Director: Kenneth Cohen
Program Coordinator: Meg Hutchins
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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
www.theartnewspaper.com
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