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Welcome!
from the Director Dennis Domer domer@ku.edu

 

Welcome to the Museum Studies program at the University of Kansas! We offer our students the excellent academic and professional training they need to prepare them for challenging careers in museums, historical agencies, and similar institutions.

Museums are a vital part of American culture. In our museums, we explore our identities, our values, and our dreams for the future. Since 1981, the Museum Studies program at the University of Kansas has prepared its graduates for a lifetime of leadership in this dynamic field. Read More...

 

 

Director's Forum

  • February 17, 2012

    Mary Madden, Director of Education and Outreach at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka and instructor of MUSE 705, Introduction to Museum Public Education, will present "Connecting with your Audience: A Model for Museum Interpretation" at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Memorial Union.

  • March 30, 2012

    A panel will present "The Future of Anthropological Archaeology in Museum Studies" at 3:30 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Memorial Union. The panel will include archaelogists: John Janzen, professor and Museum Studies anthropology track advisor; Jack Hofman, associate professor and associate chair of anthropology; Frederic Sellet, associate professor; John Hoopes, associate professor; and Rolfe Mandel, professor; as well as Mary Adair, curator - archaelogy, Biodiversity Institute.

  • April 20, 2012

    The final Director's Forum of the semester will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Memorial Union. The speaker and topic are to be announced.


Special Exhibits

  • Massachusetts Street: Monuments and Milestones

    An online exhibit of the Watkins Community Museum of History chronicles the history of this iconic Lawrence street.

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  • The Waiting Room: Lost and Found

    We all spend time in waiting rooms. Sitting, waiting; sitting, waiting; sitting and waiting for our names to be called, waiting to pass through the next doorway to the diagnostic or treatment room, waiting for a family member to reemerge, waiting for the doctor to come out with an update…The Waiting Room Project reflects this intensely personal experience, and at the same time addresses wider, correlated scientific, cultural, and economic perspectives. It is rooted in global concerns, but is also decidedly local.

     

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  • Museum Studies lecturer Sherry Williams

    Museum Studies lecturer Sherry Williams is involved with a project that has enabled a significant portion of Kansas photographer Joseph J. Pennell's life work to be freely available via the University of Kansas Libraries' digital image repository. The Pennell Collection, part of the Kansas Collection at KU's Kenneth Spencer Research Library, provides a comprehensive view of life in Junction City, Kan., at the turn of the 20th century. The collection includes more than 30,000 glass plate negatives, 6,000 of which have been digitized to allow for online access.

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