Steven LubarExhibiting AbsenceMuseums display objects to reveal ideas. What should they do when they don’t have the objects they need?Dec 2, 20182Dec 2, 20182
Steven LubarCabinets of CuriosityWhat they were, why they disappeared, and why they’re so popular nowOct 1, 20183Oct 1, 20183
Steven LubarMemorializing Disability: Lessons for MuseumsThe landscape of memory in the United States includes many memorials to those killed in our wars. It includes many fewer to those killed in…Aug 17, 2018Aug 17, 2018
Steven LubarMuseums need collections and connectionsFirst, a cautionary tale: Prof. John Whipple Potter Jenks founded Brown University’s museum of natural history, ethnography and…Aug 10, 2018Aug 10, 2018
Steven LubarA toast, on the occasion of the opening of the Memory and the Museum conference[I was asked to offer a toast to open the 2018 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science forum on “Memory and the Museum.”]Jun 18, 2018Jun 18, 2018
Steven LubarThe Rosa Parks HouseWaterfire Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is hosting Ryan Mendoza’s Rosa Parks House Project. It features Mrs. Parks’s brother’s…May 23, 2018May 23, 2018
Steven LubarTeaching SkillIn the Fall semester, I taught a new course, a seminar for first-year students: “Skills: From the Medieval Workshop to the Maker Movement.”…Jan 9, 2018Jan 9, 2018
Steven LubarMuseums can deal with Confederate MemorialsMoving Confederate memorials evicted from the public square to museums solves an immediate problem. It offers mayors and governors a way…Aug 30, 2017Aug 30, 2017