Category: Student Work

Idea Colliders: The Future of Science Museums, by Michael John Gorman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. REVIEWED BY MICHAEL CRANICK In Idea Colliders, Michael John Gorman explores the future of science museums. He quotes cellist Yo-Yo Ma about the “edge effect,” a place where spaces are created “to nurture cross-pollination of ideas” (Gorman 2020, 1). Gorman …

Doing Women’s History in Public: A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites, by Heather Huyck. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. REVIEWED BY SOFIA ANTILA Heather Huyck’s guide to interpreting women’s history, published in 2020, delves into the way women’s history has been, and should be, interpreted through oral, visual, and written sources. This …

By Morgan Coffman By this point, class is now officially over. It’s been a long semester with many hurdles along the way, but the end products that everyone has been producing have been well worth the trouble. It’s been very exciting to see everyone’s finished products, and the last class brought with it the last …

By John Terwilliger So we made it. December 7 was our final class meeting. It has been a challenging road to get to this point – at least for me. But we made it. For this week of class we wrapped up some loose ends that needed to be addressed. We began with presentations from …

  Creating an exhibit requires not just all the curatorial tools (planning, designing, prototyping, and others) but also an “open mind.”  My team and I are responsible for developing a Satellite Display in Cavanaugh Hall on the IUPUI Campus. The task reminded me of a display I saw back in India before coming here, in …

By Marissa Hamm   Although we did not have a class meeting this week, Curatorial Practices students were very busy thinking about the Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis exhibit and the idea of “fit,” both physically and theoretically.  One of the major ways we are considering fit is in regards to our satellite display exhibits. For …

By Emily McMath Queer curating can explore the spectrum of sexuality and gender expressions. But it goes well beyond rainbow flags and audacious festivals and bare all shocking images. Queer curating, as we dissected this week, challenges viewers, artists, curators, and exhibition spaces, to think beyond the traditional binary. Beyond black and white, beyond right …

By Alyssa Pier  “Curators are more like landlords than professors.” – Emily Wilkes, IUPUI Museum Studies Graduate Student  I know what you are thinking: curators do not necessarily teach, nor do they necessarily have real estate. What kind of nonsense is this? The quote is just one of the many ideas and revelations that this …

By: Danielle Thomas            My passion for history and the field of museum studies began when I was a child. Like many school children, I took a field trip to a museum as a young student and on this trip, I fell in love with history and museums. My experience as a visitor led me to …