Museum Studies Blog

BY KIERRA ANDERSON As we are getting closer to the finish line and to graduation, many of us are dealing with a mix of feelings of being nervous and stressed just trying to get all assignments completed. Making sure you are on track to graduate is a job all on its own. For many of …

BY JENNI MOTT Greetings! I am thrilled to embark on this new chapter of my journey as an emerging museum professional, eager to dive into the vibrant world of museums, art, and immersive experiences. As I step into this role, I find myself brimming with anticipation for the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. While …

Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum. Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candance Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2022. REVIEWED BY MARY GLISSON In the wake of the brutal public murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that …

BY SYD OVERTOOM (HE/THEY) When I first applied to the Museum Studies Program at Indiana University Indianapolis, I was interested in knowing how to educate others about topics I was passionate about in a non-classroom setting. I always loved learning and museums and felt like museum education was the path to take to meld those …

Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum. Edited by Adele Chynoweth, Bernadette Lynch, Klaus Petersen, and Sarah Smed. London, England. Routledge, 2020. REVIEWED BY KAYLA KELLPSH Museums and Social Change: Challenging the Unhelpful Museum critiques the museum field through the lens of activism and investigates museums’ potential to promote empowerment and social justice. Calling …

BY DANIELLE THOMAS Hi there! My name is Danielle Thomas and I am a recent graduate of the Museum Studies Master’s program at IUPUI – soon to be IU Indianapolis. I am from Peru, IN originally. I moved to Muncie after high school to attend Ball State University where I graduated with my Bachelor’s in …

Our graduate interns, whether they found their internship through our matching program or on their own, take an academic internship to complement their hands on experience in the field. This course is an arranged learning experience in museum work appropriate to individual career goals focusing on an aspect of museum practice and working with a …

By Jacob Higgins Congratulations to Museum Studies certificate undergraduate student Camryn Bembry for earning the inaugural Undergraduate Scholar Award recent award at Temple University’s Barnes Conference! Camryn’s winning work examined the intersection of tribal identity and interracial conflict in the Choctaw Nation. It grew out of research she conducted as part of Dr. Holly Cusack-McVeigh’s …

Museums, Modernity and Conflict: Museums and Collections in and of War Since the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Kate Hill. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2020. REVIEWED BY JASON HOUSLEY Commonly attributed to such varied personages as Winston Churchill, Herman Goring and Missouri Senator George Graham Vest, the aphorism ‘’History is written by the victors’’  pertains to the …

On Withdrawal—Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices edited by Sebastian Eduardo Dávila, Rebecca Hanna John, Ulrike Jordan, Thorsten Schneider, Judith Sieber, and Nele Wulff. Diaphanes & University of Chicago Press, 2023. REVIEWED BY GRACIE COLLIER Museums foremost serve the public, and all too often the public is considered only in …