Steven LubarExhibiting AbsenceMuseums display objects to reveal ideas. What should they do when they don’t have the objects they need?15 min read·Dec 2, 2018--2--2
Steven LubarCabinets of CuriosityWhat they were, why they disappeared, and why they’re so popular now13 min read·Oct 1, 2018--3--3
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…17 min read·Aug 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…14 min read·Aug 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.”]2 min read·Jun 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…6 min read·May 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.”…9 min read·Jan 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…4 min read·Aug 30, 2017----
