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University museum serving as teaching lab for SFSU Museum Studies program

10/05/2026

It’s ! 🌍🌏🌎👐🏿👐🏾👐🏽👐🏼👐🏻

student Ari says, “This Wood Fragment from the collection really caught my eye because it reminded me of my dog, Emma! While she’s not fully black, I couldn’t help but think that this anubis sitting looked so much like my dog when she’s sitting, especially with the big chest, pointed ears, and long snout. It’s pretty neat to think about how humans throughout history have had a strong connection to dogs. Maybe like Anubis, she will be my guide in the afterlife?” Thank you for sharing your story with us, Ari!

What object do you connect with? We asked students, staff, and faculty, and we’re asking you too!

View just some of the thousands of objects we steward on behalf of at the View Collections Online link in our bio - tell us what object you find a special connection with, and why! DM us or comment below ✉️💬

This object can be found at: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/globalmuseum/bundles/238766

[Image 1: A girl with short hair holds a brown dog.

Image 2: The black Egyptian dog Anubis sits next to a chalice.]

[Image 3: Graphic which reads, “What objects do you connect with and why?”]

08/24/2026

Welcome back to campus, Gators! 🐊💜💛

The Global Museum Global Museum is temporarily closed for the start of the Fall 2026 semester while our Museum Studies students work on installing the next exhibit!

Stay tuned for more information about our reopening in November! 👀

[Image Description: A hand touches the interactive display in the museum. Text reads “Stay Tuned. Temporarily Closed for installation. See you in November!”]

08/07/2026

From our Alum network group MSSIG, to and alum - details below!

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Are you passionate about museums, culture, and building meaningful connections? We’re looking for alumni who want to make an impact by joining the Museum Studies Special Interest Group (MSSIG) Board and helping strengthen the SFSU Museum Studies and Global Museum alumni network.

As an MSSIG Board member, you’ll have the opportunity to:

✨ Build your leadership and project management skills
🤝 Expand your professional network with museum and cultural professionals
🎉 Help plan programs, events, and initiatives that support alumni and students
💡 Contribute new ideas that strengthen and grow our vibrant Museum Studies community

👉 Click the link in our bio to learn more and apply today!

Together, we can continue building a connected, inspiring, and engaged Museum Studies community.

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08/05/2026

Join us in celebrating SFSU Museum Studies Program student Keone Nakakura's new exhibit, opening August 8 at our partner San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery - details below!

Repost: Opening reception Saturday, August 8th, 1 to 3:30 pm. Free!

Life and the Inevitable invites audiences to consider dying, mourning, and remembrance not as endpoints, but as complex and deeply human experiences that shape how we live, love, and relate to one another. Guest curated by recent SFSU Museum Studies graduate, Keone Nakakura. Featured works by Ebti, The Propeller Group, Selva Aparicio, Binh Danh, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Angela Hennessy, and Tiffanie Turner.

August 6th to October 15th

SFSU Fine Arts Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday
12 to 4pm

07/16/2026

Behind the scenes! The Egyptian Learning Alcove is under development... and almost ready to be unveiled! Stay tuned for opening date.

[Image description: Various funerary objects from ancient Egypt are laid out on a work table, being prepped for exhibit installation.]

06/05/2026

In Spring semester the mannequins made their appearance again... We're sorry little guy! But we found another, better suited, safer, and more engaging solution for displaying traditional clothing from the Philippines from the University collections stewarded by the The Global Museum. Thank you SFSU Museum Studies Program recent alum Raiven for a compelling exhibit on Filipino fashion, Fashion Forward. You can preview the display from the Fine Arts building's main entrance lobby hallway through Summer!

[Image description: A gray mannequin is propped against a white gallery wall with its arms dismantled laying on the floor, under a caption that reads, "how it started." Next to it, a contrasting image of an exhibit installed with two pieces of clothing on standing dress forms with students taking photos inside, under a caption that reads, "how it's going."]

06/04/2026

to SFSU Museum Studies Program Minor students custom-building boxes for long-term storage of museum collections stewarded by the The Global Museum on behalf of San Francisco State University. Great work students!

[Image description: Two student stand over a work table measuring and cutting an archival-grade board.]

06/03/2026

Please Touch! Sometimes it's important that we don't touch objects on display in museums. But SFSU Museum Studies Program students learn that it is also important that we DO engage in object-based learning whenever possible (like with replicas)! And Twiggy agrees! Thank you to recent alum Sophie Chorich for an amazing original exhibit on object-based learning in the The Global Museum.

[Image description: A person holds up a black kitten to a framed incised replica of the Rosetta stone. The kitten stares intently brushing her paw against the words... she is definitely definitely reading it!]

05/28/2026

We love when our alum visit! Welcome back to the gallery SFSU Museum Studies Program alum Gladys Ochoa who spoke with our Project Management class on her projects and career pathway since her time working with us in the The Global Museum.

[Image description: 5 people are gathered in front of the open doors of the Global Museum, smiling and gesturing at the camera in a selfie.]

05/27/2026

THANK YOU SFSU Museum Studies Program students, faculty, staff, and our campus community in the The Global Museum for another semester filled with exciting student-led research projects, educational programming, tours, exhibits, vital behind-the-scenes collections stewardship work, and more!

[Image description: People gather around tables creating custom storage housing for fragile museum collections, in gallery spaces listening to a curator talk, beam at the camera holding objects of original art, and smile in groups working in the classroom.]

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San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, Fine Arts Building Room 203
San Francisco, CA
94132

Telephone

(415) 338-6508

Website

http://linktr.ee/GlobalMuseumSFSU

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