Syracuse University Museum Studies

A fantastic weekend celebrating these talented grads! Congratulations to all our emerging museum professionals!

Excited to be selected as one of the presenters for this year’s PACCIN conference!

Our upcoming Preparators Conference will host a Trade Fair on Monday, May 18th at the Nationalmuseum. Companies being represented at the fair: Artist Engineering; BevArt; Crative; Dietl; Takiya; Temart; and Tru Vue. We will also have Poster presentations, museum tours and an evening social at the museum that day. There are still a few tickets left to attend the conference (May 18-20)! Go to paccin.org for details.

We are hiring! ✨ The Tennessee State Museum continues to evolve as it expands programming, enhances visitor engagement, and deepens its commitment to sharing the history and culture of Tennessee with communities across the state. To support this growing scope of work, the Museum is strengthening its professional team with new positions focused on visual storytelling, site management, creative services, and community engagement.

The expansion includes the following roles:
✨ Graphics Designer
✨ Museum Preparator
✨ Capitol Visitor Services Manager
✨ Volunteer Manager
✨ Collections Photographer

Apply now online ➡️: https://tnmuseum.org/jobs

We get a 2fer alumni spotlight!

How wonderful it was to catch up with Stacey Bradley G’16 , Museum Collections Manager at the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University, and
Theresa Engelbrecht G’17 , Registrar and Exhibition Manager at Bucknell University’s Samek Art Museum at the IFPDA Print fair in NYC earlier this month.

Fun printmaking facts: Theresa is a research partner with professor on The Printers Marks and Chops Archive found at http://www.printersmarks.org, and Stacey manages the archive!

This semester students in MUS 601 Museum Prep & Installation have been collaborating with the Erie Canal Museum for a wonderful case study of exhibition design and development in historic spaces: how can museums reinvent a preserved structure without making any permanent change?

Grads participated in the conception, fabrication, and installation of free standing temporary wall structures, window inserts for hangable surfaces, and digital projection as a part of artist-in-residence Sarah Cameron Sunde’s work in ‘Canal as Collaborator.’ The exhibition is a fantastically successful model of how we can create new narratives and experiences within a historic building.

Thanks and congratulations to ECM Director of Interpretation (and MUS alum) Steph Adams for steering such a great exhibition and project!

Print Curators in NYC!
Students in MUS 705 Print Curatorship had the opportunity to visit New York City to participate in print week, including fantastic visits to the Lower East Side Printshop, Print Center New York, Gemini GEL print publishers, an amazing and inspired day at the IFPDA print fair, and even a quick stop at the SUArt Museum’s Palitz Gallery. Special thanks go to Kyung Eun You and Marie Tennyson at the Lower East Side Printshop, Amy Raehse, Executive Director of Goya Contemporary, and our colleagues at Wingate Studios and Tandem Press for taking the time to speak with these talented emerging curators.

During Spring Break, students from Professor ‘s Caribbean Museology course (MUS750) had the amazing opportunity to visit several cultural sites in Puerto Rico to see first-hand the museum and heritage management practices institutions apply to address the challenges of the field within a Caribbean and (post)colonial context. Students also learned how these sites work towards the benefit of the Puerto Rican society through community engagement, educational outreach, and civic and environmental activism.

Talk about resilience and the power of museums!

Thank you .pr for such an inspiring and enriching experience!

🏺🔬🎨🖼️JUEVES DE COLECCIONES -

Hoy reseñamos la visita al MHAA, de los estudiantes del
Curso ADVANCE PROBLEMS IN MUSEUM STUDIES: Caribbean Museology, de Syracuse University, los cuales se centran en el estudio del manejo de las colecciones y cuidado del patrimonio tangible e intagible en la isla.

La visita estuvo a cargo de la Registradora de Colecciones, Chakira Santiago Gracia, la cual les hablo del cuidado de las colecciones - bajo la mirada de la conservación preventiva- y los beneficios a corto y a largo plazo de esta práctica.

Le damos las gracias a su profesora a la Dra. Alix Ferrer, por integrar al MHAA y a la UPR en su semana de viaje de estudios.