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Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present

Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present

Museum work, behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and teaching—through historical and contemporary examples.

2017

Stories

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Dec 2, 2018

Exhibiting Absence

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

Exhibiting Absence

Steven Lubar

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Oct 1, 2018

Cabinets of Curiosity

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

Cabinets of Curiosity

Steven Lubar

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Aug 27, 2018

Advice on Writing about Skills

General writing advice

Advice on Writing about Skills

Steven Lubar

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Aug 17, 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…

Memorializing Disability: Lessons for Museums

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Aug 10, 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…

Museums need collections and connections

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Jun 18, 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.”]

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

Steven Lubar

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May 23, 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…

The Rosa Parks House

Steven Lubar

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Jan 9, 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.”…

Teaching Skill

Steven Lubar

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Jan 5, 2018

Revisualizing the Crystal Palace

Cataloging History, Part 4

Revisualizing the Crystal Palace

Steven Lubar

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Aug 30, 2017

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…

Museums can deal with Confederate Memorials

Steven Lubar

Steven Lubar

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

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