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Our students and recent alumns have been writing about their research both in and on museums. Check out a piece by Emily Sneff, class 2011, for AAM's emerging museum professionals blog about her thesis on the British Museum. Molly Martell, class of 2015, is in the Museums and Society's "Staging Suburbia" practicum, in which students are working with the Jewish Museum of Maryland on a travel show about Baltimore's suburbs. She writes about her research experience on the Jewish Museum blog, here.

On April 2nd, Museums and Society will host a panel discussion on museums, exhibits and the representation of history. Speakers include: Avi Decter, Director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Kym Rice, Director of Museum Studies at George Washington University, and Ken Yellis, Principal at Project Development Systems.

When Lonnie Bunch was put in charge of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in 2003, the museum had neither a building nor a collection, but it did have a mission, to tell a nation's story through the many voices of the African-American community.  Come hear about these challenges and more. Tuesday, 6pm in Gilman 50. A reception in the atrium will precede the event (5pm). All are welcome. 

On Tuesday, February 14, students in the Staging Suburbia course, the product of a Mellon-funded collaboration with the Jewish Museum, visited the neighborhoods about which they will be creating an exhibit for Fall 2012: Baltimore's post-war Jewish suburbs. The museum staff teaching the course did not forget to include a stopover at Miller's delicatessen, to allow some time for intensive discussion on topics from suburbia and the shaping of community identity to contemporary rhetoric that stages moving to the suburbs as a pioneer experience.

Federal Foodies: From Farm to Table in Early Baltimore opens this week at Homewood Museum (February 3-April 29, 2012). The exhibit explores issues from farming and gardening practices to how foods were preserved, prepared and presented in the nineteenth-century, and showcases cookbooks, implements, and images, among other artefacts from the period. The show is curated by students from the Museums and Society course Introduction to Material Culture, taught every Fall by Catherine Arthur, Director of Homewood Museum. Come see what they discovered, including evidence of an early type of community supported agriculture, right here in Baltimore!