News & Events Archive


M&S Ice Cream Social

M&S Ice Cream Social
Welcome back to the new academic year! The Museums & Society program invites you to our ice cream social on Wednesday, September 13th, in front of the Homewood Museum, from 3-5pm.


Kendra Brewer wins the Beinecke Scholarship

Congrats to Museums & Society minor, Kendra Brewer, on winning the Beinecke Scholarship! From The Hub: For rising senior Kendra Brewer, our understanding of the Indigenous Americas leaves too much in the past. “Obsessed” with research from a young age, Brewer pursued her passion for Mesoamerican and Indigenous art history but kept running into the […]


Student Trace Overlooked History in Sacred Places

Student Trace Overlooked History in Sacred Places
The Johns Hopkins course Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories brings together a community of scholars to discover, recover, and maintain Baltimore's Black cemeteries


A Modern Approach to Museum Studies

A Modern Approach to Museum Studies
A blend of research, reflection, conceptualization, and pure logistics gave Krieger School students firsthand experience mounting an American Modernism exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.


JHU Museum Club Trip to the Walters

JHU Museum Club Trip to the Walters
The JHU Museums Club is taking a trip to the Walters Art Museum on Saturday, September 17, 2022 from 11:30am-2:00pm. See the flyer for the QR Code to sign up for the trip! (Registration Required)


M&S Welcome Breakfast

M&S Welcome Breakfast
Museums & Society will be hosting a breakfast to welcome everyone back for the Fall 2022 semester!


Field trip to Philly!

Field trip to Philly!
Students visited the Barnes Foundation and the Eastern State Penitentiary Museum, which featured a talk back with museum staff.


M&S Awarded $40,000 for internships

After shepherding JHU’s membership into the Chesapeake chapter of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network, the program won a subaward agreement with the Museums Resource Center (MRC) of the National Parks Service to hire student interns. The MRC is the central curatorial and collections management facility for the NPS of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and […]