Thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of this fall’s section of our core graduate seminar MSST 600, Sustaining Places (www.sustainingplaces.com ) is getting a new look and many new resources with useful annotations. Let us know what you think! Sustaining Places was launched in 2011 as part of a three-year project funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
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
www.huffpost.com/entry/polin-poland-museums-stola_n_5e627901c5b647a5bd315aaa
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.