News & Announcements Archive

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 […]

Olmsted Exhibit at Evergreen

Olmsted Exhibit at Evergreen

Working under the direction of Lori Finkelstein, Director of Hopkins Museums, students in her M&S course Landscaping Baltimore researched the influence of Olmsted on the development of Baltimore’s neighborhoods and green spaces. They developed their findings into an outdoor exhibit at Evergreen Museum, now on view.

Hot Chocolate at Homewood

Hot Chocolate at Homewood

Keep up your energy during finals week. Grab a hot chocolate on your way to the library.

Workshop on Matrilineal Memory: Mapping the Body Home

Workshop on Matrilineal Memory: Mapping the Body Home

On Tuesday, April 20th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST, Electric.Marronage’s Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Mwase will host a workshop on Matrilineal Memory: Mapping the Body Home. In this embodied workshop, Mwase will lead participants in mining personal stories to deepen their understanding and connection to their embodied memories of freedom. Registration on Eventbrite is required. This […]

Homewood hosts Linnea Grimm & Interpreting Slavery at Monticello on Monday Feb 10, 10 a.m.- 12 p.m.

Homewood Museum hosts Linnea Grimm, Director of Education and Visitor Programs at Thomas Jefferson’ Monticello. She will speak about how historic Monticello expanded tours to include historical representations of enslaved communities and interpret the difficult history of Sally Hemmings’ life with Thomas Jefferson. Free for all. Space is limited; please register at eventbrite.

Listen to Director Jennifer Kingsley on CAA Podcasts

Dr. Kingsley and Dr. Tervala talk about connecting and overlapping the activities of university and museum-based art history in order to challenge the discipline’s canonical narratives.

Students Spend Fall Break Day Visiting Philly Museums

Students Spend Fall Break Day Visiting Philly Museums

M&S and the Department of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology invited undergraduate and graduate students to visit the Mütter Museum and talk with Curator Anna N. Dhody and Director Robert Hicks about their latest exhibition Spit Spreads Death. Students also lunched with curatorial fellows from the American Philosophical Society and toured the museum’s exhibition Mapping […]

Why put a museum in a book? Talk at the Virginia Stern Book Center

Paula Findlen, Stanford University, shares her most recent investigation of Ferrante Imperato’s Cabinet of Natural History in 16th-Century Naples. Talk is Tuesday, September 17, 5:15pm in the Macksey Seminar Room of the Brody Learning Commons. Co-sponsored by the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe.

M&S Welcome Brunch

Museums & Society will be hosting a brunch to welcome everyone back for the Fall 2019 semester! Also, please keep your eyes peeled for news of our upcoming workshop on provenance research and for our October trip to Philadelphia Museums!

Julia Zimmerman wins the President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts

Congratulations to M&S minor, and graduating senior, Julia Zimmerman on receiving the President’s Commendation for Achievement in the Arts which recognizes students in KSAS, the School of Engineering, and the Peabody Conservatory who made outstanding contributions in service to the arts! Julia has been active in the arts both on and off campus and, in […]