Seeing is believing! Here are just a few images of MUSE students engaging throughout their Museum Studies courses.
Students participate in careful and critical thinking and studying of objects in the University Museums collections.
Students with Jim Harris, the Andrew W. Mellon Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford University). Students got an amazing “behind the scenes” tour of the museum and an opportunity to handle bronze age artifacts.
Museum Interns have the opportunity to assist the University Museums staff with behind-the-scenes work preparation for exhibitions.
Museum Studies students have the opportunity to learn about collections management, storage, and object handling.
Museum Interns participate in a variety of museum exhibition planning, from working with objects, assisting with preparing objects for exhibition, to writing object labels and wall text.
Students speaking with Alice Procter, while giving the study group an “Uncomfortable Art Tour” at the British Museum.