Posted on April 18th, 2025 in Featured, Internships, Research, Student Work by icsilver

BY: JENNA SERVIZZI Throughout my involvement in the Museum Studies Undergraduate Certificate program, I have fallen in love with collections and the idea of working in collections. For my internship this semester, I was incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to work with the Fine Arts and Culture collection at the Indiana State Museum. Part …

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April Events - the four events are described in the post.
Posted on April 1st, 2025 in Events, Featured by icsilver

Join the IUI Museum Studies Program for these exciting and important upcoming events!  Museums in Uncertain Times:  Institutions, DEI, and the Road Ahead  Session 1 of a two-part series. In this hour-long conversation, speakers Veda Ajamu (Chief Engagement Officer at the National Civil Rights Museum) and Barry Joseph (Adjunct instructor, NYU) will join the Museum …

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Posted on April 1st, 2025 in Book Reviews, Student Work by icsilver

Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens at Museums and Historic Sites, by Kristin L. Gallas. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. REVIEWED BY REBECCA MCGOVERN Museums can be highly emotional places. History is a brutal landscape that holds countless traumas and pains for an unquantifiable number of people. This landscape is particularly poignant when addressing the …

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