• Blossom and Bloom: Exploring the Secret Language of Flowers was a blooming success! Curated and organized by Mariana Mehl-Gralak, a prospective MA can...
  • A great educational opportunity organized by UD History PhD Candidate, Paulie Wenger! Hope to see you there!
  • 'What They Kept' is a powerful exhibit on what mementos-from vacations, military experiences, and everyday life-people chose to hold onto. Make sure t...
  • Interesting read!
  • Afternoon of Architecture is a great opportunity to engage with UD's architectural history! We hope to see you there!
  • Great article about the UD Mineralogical Museum!
  • Great opportunities for museum professionals!
  • Great opportunity tomorrow!
  • The current Curation and Collections Management course had the opportunity to tour Rockwood Park & Museum and discuss curation and object handling. Ha...
  • Have you been to the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum?
  • Transcendent Resilience: Black Women, Artivism and the Carceral State was last semester's Exhibition Course's final project! Check it out!
  • A great opportunity to engage with UD's history! Hope to see you there!
  • Happy to see our Undergrads excelling in their Summer Internships!
  • The 2024 MSPE Career Panel was a success! Thank you to our panelists and students for your attendance!
  • The Exhibitions course toured the Jazz Age Exhibit at the Delaware Art Museum last week! Have you seen it?
  • Positive interactions with museum staff can improve visitor experiences and encourage future patronization!
  • RSVP at https://forms.gle/mG6hprdhdbBCyNB17 for the MSPE career panel on December 2, 2024! Hope to see you there!
  • The Museum Exhibitions course toured the Disaster Research Center this evening and discussed how to ethically exhibit artifacts relating to natural an...
  • Does your museum use content warnings?
  • The Museum Exhibitions course toured UD's Special Collections two weeks ago and came across some cool ephemera and artifacts. Have you ever been to Sp...
  • UD Senior and MSPE minor Abigail Lichtenwalner takes a closer look at the Cooch-Dayett Mill near Newark, DE.
  • The Museum Exhibitions class toured the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage last week and discussed how to exhibit tough topics ethically. T...
  • How can a public history institution collaborate with its local partners to create a more holistic, diverse approach to programming? Here's how S'edav...
  • Hello, all!My name is Samantha Hertel, and I am one of this year's Museum Studies Graduate Assistants!I earned my undergraduate degree in history and...
  • Congratulations to our amazing undergraduates and graduate students on the end of another spectacular semester!! And a special congratulations to our...
  • The goal of all museums should be to reduce barriers and increase access to a museum’s mission!
  • How is your museum working to create a more inclusive environment?
  • Don’t forget to register for this amazing opportunity to hear from some of our incredible alumni!
  • Please register for the upcoming Museum Studies and Public Engagement Alumni Career Panel scheduled for Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 12:40pm!
  • Social media can offer unique ways to connect with your community, as well as increase your public outreach!
  • A fantastic article highlighting our students’ participation with Delaware Historical Society!
  • An effective development plan can help you realize your museum’s mission and take it to new heights!
  • Don’t miss this upcoming virtual symposium facilitated by one of our fabulous Ph.D. students Monet Lewis-Timmons “Celebrating Alice Dunbar-Nelson in t...
  • A small group of our students spent two weeks in January at Milton Historical Society, assisting staff with evaluating its collections. The partnershi...
  • Fabulous talk presented today by UD PhD candidate and MSPE grad student Demetra McBrayer on the exhibit she curated in the UD Morris Library. Demetr...
  • Hello Spring Semester! As we begin the first week of class, Museum Studies' C-AID program as officially reached a close after two fantastic weeks at b...
  • https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/spains-museums-under-review-to-help-move-past-colonial-framing-1234693685/How might museums closer to home move...
  • As the cold weather keeps many of us inside, this is a great time to look into virtual professional workshops!
  • Opportunities such as these open the door toward a more equitable and inclusive museum world!https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2...
  • As we embark on this new year, we hope that all of our students, alumni, and faculty look ahead with happiness, eagerness, and passion for our mission...
  • As we move into the new year, it’s important that we continue to question our museum systems and the ways we may be more inclusive and fair minded in...
  • As the semester has come to a close and we all head to the start of a new year, we hope each of you will look back on the year and move forward with m...
  • As Finals Week continues, we hope all our students had an amazing fall semester full of learning and engaging experiences. As you look back on the sem...
  • As we move towards the end of the year, here is an opportunity to ring in the new year and expand your museum audience!
  • It's officially #GivingTuesday, and we are so thankful for the continued support of this department!Museum Studies strives to provide ample opportunit...
  • We are so grateful for the support this department receives from its students, faculty, and alumni! We owe our success to our students who strive for...
  • Throwback Thursday!As Philanthropy Week continues, it is time to reminisce on the events, internships, and projects Museum Studies has been fortunate...
  • As part of University of Delaware's Philanthropy Week, the Museum Studies & Public Engagement Program of UD hopes to help change the faces of GLAMPE,...
  • MSPE is hosting a Career Night on Wednesday, November 15 at 7:15pm via Zoom (in-person seating is full)! Here is an amazing chance to hear from three...
  • *Event has been CANCELLED*Here is an interesting opportunity to see two world-renowned scholars debate a complex and relevant issue on Friday, Novembe...
  • How can your organization minimize its environmental impact?
  • The American Museum of Natural History is taking a massive leap to create a more inclusive, respectful, and restorative environment. What is your inst...
  • Upcoming Talk Alert!Nicholas Dunn-McAfee, a doctoral researcher from the University of York, will be giving an in-person talk titled “Dante Gabriel Ro...
  • Local Event and Alumni Alert! In celebration of Rear-Admiral Samuel F. du Pont’s 2023 induction into the Delaware Maritime Hall of Fame, Hagley Histor...
  • Museum Studies would like to highlight some of our amazing Alumni this academic year!Our Alumni of the Week is Chris Loos! Chris graduated from the UD...
  • Can we do a Throwback Tuesday? Collections AID, or C-AID, is a graduate student collections-oriented service project performed over a two-week period...
  • There are still seats open and time to register for this upcoming virtual talk on Copyright and Fair Use in Research Projects on October 17th at 4pm!...
  • What is important to your community? How can museums aid our communities to meet their needs and drive change?
  • How can we, as museum professionals, avoid burnout? Are there any specific ways you and your institution combat this problem?
  • Museums are evolving new forms of digital experiences, as well as creating new spaces for play and education!
  • https://udel.libcal.com/calendar/events/Rossettis_Sept20On September 20, 2023, Michelle Reynolds will be giving a virtual lecture titled, The Rossetti...
  • Welcome Back to our current students! We hope that your first week of classes was fantastic! To our alumni, do you remember your first week of classes...
  • One more call to register for Career Connections 2023, our annual virtual alumni and student networking event!https://forms.gle/9NdCA29fJFNG8jXs5
  • Spotted this weekend, our own Caitlin Rossiter, helping to make the Cecil County Children’s Book Fair a huge success!
  • Interested in networking virtually with other recent and experienced alumni? Register for our third annual Career Connections event on Weds June 21, a...
  • Please join us for our annual alumni networking event! Here, graduate students and alumni will discuss important topics in the field, along with hirin...
  • How can Museum’s craft a distinctive voice, either through marketing materials or exhibition labels, to better engage their audiences?
  • There is still time to register! The University of Delaware Museum Studies Program invites you to join Bonita Bennett, former Director of the District...
  • Museums are widely celebrated as one of the most trustworthy institutions. This piece from AAM shares History Colorado’s efforts to build on this trus...
  • Join us on May 1st for the Spring 2023 Museum Studies Annual Lecture featuring Bonita Bennett, former award-winning Director of the District Six Museu...
  • We have an exciting line-up of courses for this upcoming Fall semester, including Curating Hidden Collections & The Black Archive, the Digital Museum,...
  • Are you a Museum Studies Alumni? We want to know all about the amazing work you’ve done since graduation! Click the link below to share your updates w...
  • Our newly redesigned site, Sustaining Places, is now live! Since 2013, our Program has built and maintained Sustaining Places, an online encyclopedia...
  • The Amon Carter Museuem of American Art initiated a large-scale alt text program in order to improve the accessibility of their online collections. “T...
  • #FromTheArchives In 2012, our students traveled to Dover to visit the Air Mobility Command Museum, “the only Museum dedicated to airlift and air refue...
  • How can museums inspire change within their communities through interactive exhibitions? Check out this piece from MuseumNext!
  • What are UD Museum Studies Alumni doing today? As the Manager of Education & Public Engagement at the Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch & Gardens Kat...
  • Art Museums in Los Angeles are adopting free admission in order to attract more visitors, and the early results are promising! This piece from the Art...
  • #FromtheArchives In 2013, our graduate students and staff attended a Digital Humanities Conference in Philadelphia, which was hosted by the University...
  • ChatGPT is an interactive “chatbot” launched by OpenAI. It can answer any of your questions and respond to complex prompts. How can museums utilize Ch...
  • That's a wrap for Collections Aid 2023! Over the past two weeks our students and Wilmington’s Howard High School Alumni inventoried an expansive colle...
  • Week 1 of Collections AID is complete! Our students have inventoried hundreds of books, periodicals, and newspapers at Howard High School of Technolog...
  • C-AID 2023 kicked off today with the C-AID prequel - program director Ken Cohen and graduate student Melissa Benbow, this year's organizer, met with U...
  • The British Museum in London, which has held a collection of sculptures from the Parthenon since the early 1800s, may soon strike a deal with the Acro...
  • #FromTheArchives In 2016, our graduate students catalogued collections and de-installed an exhibit at the Milford Historical Society for our annual Co...
  • How can museums maximize the reach of their digital collections? Check out this piece from MuseumNext!
  • What are UD Museum Studies Alumni doing today? As Executive Director of The Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Shana Bushyhead Condill (Eastern Band of Ch...
  • Graduate students can now register for Collections Aid 2023! This year’s project will involve rehousing collections held at Howard High School in Wilm...
  • This semester, students in our Museum Education course are working on some exciting projects, including an audio tour with the John Dickinson Plantati...
  • This past summer, our very own Erin Turbeville interned with the National Park Service in Washington D.C., where she researched and wrote labels for c...
  • The Delaware Museum Association invites you to attend their Annual Meeting Reconnect on November 7 at Killens Pond State Park. Here museum professiona...
  • We have an exciting line-up of courses for the upcoming Spring semester, including Fashion and Textile Collection Management, Public and Nonprofit Adm...