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Steven Lubar

Exhibiting Absence

Museums display objects to reveal ideas. What should they do when they don’t have the objects they need?

Dec 2, 2018

Exhibiting Absence

Dec 2, 2018

Cabinets of Curiosity

What they were, why they disappeared, and why they’re so popular now

Oct 1, 2018

Cabinets of Curiosity

Oct 1, 2018

Advice on Writing about Skills

General writing advice

Aug 27, 2018

Advice on Writing about Skills

Aug 27, 2018

Memorializing Disability: Lessons for Museums

The 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, 2018

Memorializing Disability: Lessons for Museums

Aug 17, 2018

Museums need collections and connections

First, a cautionary tale: Prof. John Whipple Potter Jenks founded Brown University’s museum of natural history, ethnography and…

Aug 10, 2018

Museums need collections and connections

Aug 10, 2018

A 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, 2018

A toast, on the occasion of the opening of the Memory and the Museum conference

Jun 18, 2018

The Rosa Parks House

Waterfire Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is hosting Ryan Mendoza’s Rosa Parks House Project. It features Mrs. Parks’s brother’s…

May 23, 2018

The Rosa Parks House

May 23, 2018

Teaching Skill

In 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, 2018

Teaching Skill

Jan 9, 2018

Revisualizing the Crystal Palace

Cataloging History, Part 4

Jan 5, 2018

Revisualizing the Crystal Palace

Jan 5, 2018

Museums can deal with Confederate Memorials

Moving Confederate memorials evicted from the public square to museums solves an immediate problem. It offers mayors and governors a way…

Aug 30, 2017

Museums can deal with Confederate Memorials

Aug 30, 2017

Steven Lubar

Steven Lubar

Professor of American Studies at Brown University. Author of Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present.

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