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2020 E. Lynn Stewart Internships Announced

The History Department is excited to announce this year’s E. Lyman Stewart Internships. These are competitive paid opportunities for history graduate and undergraduate students. Below you will find links to the application forms for...

Learning the Ropes and Sometimes Cataloging Them

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...

It’s a law!

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...

Delving into Delaware Documents

Katherine Riley, a second year Museum Studies and Hagley scholar, spent her summer digging through the manuscript collections at the Delaware Historical Society as the Stewart Fellowship Intern. For this assignment, Katherine worked closely...

Welcome to Galveston! Now Grab a Bucket.

In July, Sam Christenson, a 2017 graduate of the Museum Studies Graduate Program, joined the staff of the Galveston Railroad Museum (GRRM) in Galveston, Texas as curator. Less than two months later, Hurricane Harvey...

Grad Student Summer Interns Storm the Castle!

New Castle Historical Society preserves and interprets four centuries of Delaware history. With the help of Museum Studies graduate students, Ben Goldman and Aliza Alperin-Sheriff, that history is now more accessible to the public....

Summer Internships Can Be a Real Beach

While each of our undergraduate minors gets hands-on museum experience during their summer internships, two of our students got to stick their toes in the Delaware sand while at their sites. Kira Lyle joined...

Undergraduate Minor is Growing!

Students from Anthropology, Art Conservation, Art History, and History have declared the Museum Studies minor. At 18 credits, it’s easy to do — and, whether or not you are thinking about a museum career,...