Museum Studies - Kendall College of Arts and Sciences

The minor in Museum Studies is designed to enhance knowledge of the history and role of museums as well as issues of cultural heritage and historic preservation. It prepares students for graduate study leading to careers in museum work by exploring the curation of material culture including artistic and historical artifacts, everyday museum operations and museology’s current theoretical, political and ethical concerns.

Director

Lamont Lindstrom, Professor of Anthropology

  • Minor

    Museum Studies Certificate

    Designed to enhance knowledge of the history and role of museums as well as explain issues of cultural heritage and historic preservation.

  • Advisory Board

    Garrick Bailey, Professor of Anthropology
    Christina Burke, Curator, Philbrook Museum
    John Coward, Associate Professor of Communication
    Brian Hosmer, Associate Professor of Western American History
    Joli Jensen, Professor of Communication
    Robert Pickering, Professor of Anthropology, Museum Science and Management and Gilcrease Museum