Alexandra Good '12 talks about working on the recent student-curated exhibit
Print by Print: From Durer to Lichtenstein at the BMA. Watch now >>
Students in the Mellon-funded course Staging Suburbia work alongside staff from the Jewish
Museum of Maryland to develop the exhibit “Jews on the Move” (on the left: student-curator
Molly Martell '15 helps install the show in Hodson Hall)
Emily Carambelas '11 restores a Torah crown from the university's Henry Sonneborn
collection of Judaica for her show “From Sacred to Secular: Collecting and Caring for Judaica.”
Find out more about her work and the project>>
Woodrow Wilson undergraduate research fellow Laura Somenzi '13 curates the exhibit “Choreography in Color:
The Art of Zelda Fitzgerald at JHU's Evergreen Museum and Library.” Find out more>>
Students visit the Louvre in Paris as part of new Study Abroad courses offered by the Program
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Museums and Society students to intern this summer
May 1, 2013 7:52:00 AM EDT

This summer, Museums and Society will have students interning at the Phillipps Collection in Washington D.C., the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Walters Art Museum, the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Christie's and the Gagosian Gallery. Joseph Shaikewitz blogs about M&S opportunities here - stay tuned for reports from the field!

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awards M&S $500,000 grant
Apr 2, 2013 12:52:00 PM EDT

Museums and Society has been awarded a second grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, to support program activities and to fund new collaborations with regional museums, on topics ranging from the books arts and contemporary art to the bioethics of living collections.

Museums and Society minor accepted to competitive Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program
Mar 22, 2013 10:25:00 AM EDT

Congratulations to Courtney Little, who will be working this summer at Historic Deerfield as one of their Summer Fellows! This highly competitive program invites undergraduates to go behind the scenes of a significant American historic site as well as pursue research in the museum's collections.

Alice Greenwald talk rescheduled for April 23rd
Mar 13, 2013 4:50:00 PM EDT

Alice Greenwald, Director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, to speak on April 23rd, 5:45pm, Mergenthaler 111: "Passion on All Sides: The Challenges of Creating the 9/11 Memorial Museum."