Museum Studies Student Association - MUSSA

📢 Spring Elections voting is open until Friday, April 3!

🗳️ Voting is only available for CDP and MMSt Students. Check your email inboxes for yesterday's MUSEletter to access the voting form link.

☀️ Kick off the summer with one last pub night! Join us at Trinity Common for drinks to celebrate the end of another semester 🍻

📅 Date: Friday, April 10 at 5pm
📍 Location: Trinity Common, 303 Augusta Ave, Toronto

Make sure to RSVP in the Eventbrite link in our bio to reserve a spot!

📢 Join M***A! 🗳️ Nominations are open and there are 14 positions available on the M***A council. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved in the student community, connect with fellow students, faculty and staff, and keep up to date with what's going on in the Faculty/University.

Scroll through this post for information on key dates and brief position descriptions, and click the link in our bio for more information, as well as the nomination form!

Join us on a tour of The ArQuives! 🌈

The tour is open to both MMSt and CDP students! Capacity is limited to 20 so make sure to RSVP in the Eventbrite link in our bio to reserve a spot.

📅 Date: Thursday, March 26, 5-7pm
📍 Location: The ArQuives, 34 Isabella St, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1N1

"The ArQuives is one of the largest independent 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world and the only archive in Canada with a mandate to collect at a national level. Founded out of The Body Politic newspaper collection in 1973, its mandate is to safeguard the 2SLGBTQIA+ history of Canada. The archives formally incorporated in 1980 and following a legal challenge was granted charitable status in 1981. Today, The ArQuives preserves a wide range of material including personal and organizational papers, books, monographs, photographs, moving images, sound recordings, periodicals, artifacts (like buttons, board games, t-shirts, and banners), and other reference material."

Celebrate the end of the year with a board game night! Join us at the GSU Loft for a fun evening of games, movies and pizza. 🎲

✉️ RSVP with the link in our bio! Open to MMSt and CDP students in all years!

📅 Date: Thursday, September 4th, 2025 at 5pm
📍 Location: GSU Loft, 16 Bancroft Ave, Toronto (Second Floor)

Join us on a curator led tour of Linda Rotua Sormin: Uncertain Ground at the Gardiner Museum on March 19 from 2-4pm! 🎨

The tour is open to both MMSt and CDP students, and costs $11 to attend. Capacity is limited so make sure to RSVP in the Eventbrite link in our bio to reserve a spot and e-transfer $11 to [email protected] with the note "Gardiner Tour".

"Linda Rotua Sormin: Uncertain Ground is the culmination of over 20 years of remarkable exploration and innovation, bringing together clay, sculpture, video, sound, hand-cut watercolour painting, and digital fabrication in a multi-sensory environment where roosters, tigers, dragons, and sacred texts serve as portals into ancient knowledge. The exhibition asks how life in the modern, cosmopolitan city can coexist with memories and experiences of our ancestral traditions."

📅 Date: Thursday, March 19, 2-4pm
📍 Location: Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen's Park, Toronto

💬 Interested in learning how your MMSt degree can be applied to other fields? Join us to hear from past MMSt Alumni working in fields and jobs beyond the museum!

Pizza and refreshments will be served, make sure to RSVP by March 12 at 11:59pm in the link in our bio!

📅 Date: March 16, 6-9pm
📍 Location: Bissell Building, 4th Floor Student Commons

Join M***A in a Valentine's Day card making session on Monday February 9th from 12-1pm in the 7th floor lounge! 💌♥️🧸

Join us on a tour of the collections storage at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto on February 4th. 🖼️ Capacity is limited so make sure to RSVP in the Eventbrite link in our bio to reserve a spot on the tour!

"The Art Museum is comprised of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) and the University of Toronto Art Centre (University College), and is one of the largest gallery spaces for visual art exhibitions and programming in Toronto. The Art Museum organizes and presents an intensive year-round program of exhibitions and events that foster—at a local, regional, and international level—innovative research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and knowledge of art and its histories befitting Canada’s leading university and the country’s largest city."

📅 Date: Wednesday, February 4th at 2pm
📍 Location: University of Toronto Art Centre (in University College), 15 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7

📣 Calling all MMSt and CDP students, teachers, and alumni!

MMSt Merch is now available for order! 🥳 Order form is available in the link in our bio.

We have an amazing variety of items available, including clothing, bags, keychains and stickers 🤩 Make sure to put in your order before February 12th, 2025!

The results are in! Congratulations to Portia Piasentin on winning our logo contest 🎉

Merch featuring this logo will be available for order soon, make sure to keep an eye out for our official merchandise announcement post tomorrow! 👀