By Ann Eberwein The Hmong Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota identifies itself as a museum without walls and is the first and only museum dedicated to the preservation of Hmong culture. The museum was founded by Mai Huizel who received … Continue Reading »
2021 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Aislinn Sanders is the recipient of the Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award. This summer (2021), she began research on a collection of Thai silver bowls and boxes, dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, housed at the MPM. … Continue Reading »
2020 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Armando Manresa is the 2020 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. This semester (Spring 2020), he began working with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) collection of about 130 ceramic vessels that are fake, fraudulent, or reproductions from throughout Latin America. … Continue Reading »
2019 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Emma Eisner is the 2019 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. During the 2019 Spring Semester, she worked with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) collection from Chajul, El Quiche, Guatemala which includes 121 grave goods from Mound 10, Tomb 1. … Continue Reading »
2018 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Samantha Bomkamp is the 2018 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. During the 2018 Spring Semester she worked with the Milwaukee Public Museum’s (MPM) Casas Grandes collection from Chihuahua, Mexico. While the collection includes a variety of items such as shell jewelry, ceramic vessels and figurines, an axe, spindle whorls, agates, and potsherds, Samantha’s research focused on over 80 of the whole, mostly whole, or reconstructed vessels that date between the Viejo and Tardio periods (700-1660 A.D.).… Continue Reading »
2017 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Victoria Pagel is the 2017 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. Her research is focused on the Milwaukee Public Museum’s German Silver brooch collection. The study collection includes brooches collected from Native Americans by Samuel Barrett and Alanson Skinner in the early 1900s during expeditions in New York, Wisconsin, and Mexico.… Continue Reading »
L&S InFocus: “Weapons: Beyond the Blade” MPM exhibit
MPM’s current temporary exhibition “Weapons: Beyond the Blade” is featured in the October issue of L&S InFocus. The MPM Exhibition Work of Museum Studies and Anthropology Students is on display through January 1, 2017.… Continue Reading »
2016 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award
Stephan Hassam was the 2016 Ritzenthaler Museum Research Internship Award Recipient. His research is on the MPM’s collection of Maltese material. The collection comprises ceramic, glass, metal, and skeletal elements which predominantly date to the Phoenician, Punic, and Roman periods of the Maltese archipelago’s history ca. 800 BC – 100 AD.… Continue Reading »
Anthropology Colloquium Speaker Dr. Alaka Wali featured in NY Times
Dr. Alaka Wali’s role as curator of the “Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman,” exhibition is featured in New York Times article.… Continue Reading »
The Tomorrow People: Entry to the Museum Workforce
Maurice Davies, Deputy Director of the Museums Association, recently wrote a research report about entering the museum profession, and has six recommendations for improving the training of future employees.… Continue Reading »