Museum Studies MA Program Hosts First Virtual Trivia Night!

April 26, 2021 by jplasencia3

Which museum’s foyer is now housed in a former industrial turbine hall? Would you venture a guess as to which “micro-country” has the largest concentration of museums? Have a knack for antiquities? Then do you know which ancient philosopher founded the first museum in order to house his zoological collection? If you’re stumped, join the club! On Friday, April 16th the USF Museum Studies MA Program hosted its first-ever trivia night.  Organized and emceed by Sharon Levy MA ’21 and […]

Categories: Community, Museum Studies • Tags: community, museum studies, trivia night

Outside the Apparatus: Alternatives to Museum-based Exhibitions and Community-Engaged Programming

April 20, 2021 by jplasencia3

Please join the Museum Studies MA Program for an exciting panel on Friday, April 30th at 2:30PM. Outside the Apparatus: Alternative to Museum-based Exhibition and Community-Engaged Programming will bring together three cultural workers currently making a profound impact within their respective communities by way of providing resources and programming usually attributed to museums. Panelists will explore the difficulties of engaging and/or building community outside the resources usually provided by the traditional museum apparatus and, conversely, ways in which autonomy has […]

Categories: Collaborations, Community, Museum Studies, Social Justice • Tags: community engagement, cultural workers, guest speaker, museum studies, panel, social justice

Enriching Collective Knowledge at USF’s Annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

March 29, 2021 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

By Vi Bui MA ‘21 In celebration of Women’s History Month, University of San Francisco recently held its annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for the 8th consecutive year. Taking place on March 8, 2021, International Women’s Day, this year’s Edit-A-Thon was part of the 20th anniversary of the university’s Global Women’s Right Forum. Co-hosted by a team of librarians from Gleeson Library | Geschke Center, in collaboration with faculty from USF’s Art History BA and Museum Studies MA programs, […]

Categories: Collaborations, Community, Forums, Museum Studies, Social Justice, Uncategorized • Tags: #edit-a-thon, #genderequity, #museumstudies, #wikipedia

In Conversation: Dan Hicks & Ndubuisi Ezeluomba

March 22, 2021 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

By: Caroline Gruber, MA ’21, Museum Studies Graduate Student Assistant On Tuesday, March 2, the Museum Studies MA cohort had the amazing opportunity to attend a moderated discussion between Professor Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and Dr. Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, the Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). The event centered on Hicks’s recently published book, The Brutish Museums: […]

Categories: Collaborations, Cultural Repatriation, Museum Studies, Social Justice, Uncategorized • Tags: benin bronzes, Cultural Repatriation, museum studies

MUSE Attends Museums Advocacy Day 2021!

March 8, 2021 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

By: Caroline Gruber ’21, Museum Studies Program Assistant On February 23rd, the Museum Studies MA 2021 Cohort had the amazing opportunity to participate in the American Alliance of Museums’ Museums Advocacy Day. Typically, the event is held for two days in Washington D.C., but this year the event went virtual. The online format allowed for many more participants than previous years, especially for more first-time attendees like our Museum Studies cohort. Students were instructed by museum professionals on how to […]

Categories: Advocacy, Collaborations, Community, Museum Studies • Tags: museum advocacy, museum studies, policy

Strategic Foresight and Futurism in the Museum Industry: MSGA Welcomes Salvador Acevedo for Winter Workshop

February 22, 2021 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

by: Stephanie Kerry ’21, MSGA Secretary On January 14, 2021, the Museum Studies Graduate Association (MSGA) welcomed Salvador Acevedo to host a workshop on strategic foresight and futurism in the museum industry. Salvador is Managing Partner at the strategy firm, Scansion, and has more than 20 years of experience within the museum field. This program was organized by MSGA’s 2020 Officers, Chloe Clause, Taarini Savara, Laure Rigaud-Soares, and Nicole Smahlik. Salvador opened his workshop by providing more information on the […]

Categories: Collaborations, Community, MSGA, Museum Studies • Tags: MSGA, museum studies, strategic foresight

MSGA elects 2021 officers!

February 1, 2021 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

The Museum Studies program is pleased to announce the newly elected members of the Museum Studies Graduate Association: Tessa Harden (President), Caillean Magee (Vice President), Kimberly Toscano (Treasurer) and Stephanie Kerry (Secretary). Now in its eight year, the Association aims to represent and serve all Museum Studies graduate students through facilitating networking opportunities with museum professionals, fostering awareness of museum exhibitions, and promoting scholarly and professional development activities. We are thrilled to see what plans the MSGA has in store […]

Categories: Collaborations, Community, MSGA, Museum Studies, Uncategorized • Tags: MSGA, museum studies

Javier Plasencia Joins the USF Museum Studies Team

January 11, 2021 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

The USF Museum Studies M.A. Program is thrilled to announce that Javier (Javi) Plasencia has just started as our new Program Manager! We recently sat down for an interview with Javi. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your career path? How did you make your way to the USF Museum Studies community? I’ve worked in a variety of capacities over the years- in higher education, in museums, in arts non-profits and within the public sector, so my […]

Categories: Museum Studies, Uncategorized

Thank You Museum Colleagues!

December 28, 2020 by usfmuseumstudiesblog

2020 has been a wild ride, and this Fall semester was no exception. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this past academic semester has been unlike any in the Museum Studies Program’s history. Held entirely online, the semester necessitated the use of some creative solutions, and­–as necessity is the mother of invention–our faculty found ingenious ways to adapt. Despite the inability to meet in person and a host of other technical and logistical hurdles, the one constant throughout the […]

Categories: Collaborations, Museum Studies, Site Visits, Uncategorized • Tags: gratitude, guest lecturers, museum studies