SFSU Museum Studies Program

Join our prestigious guests for a conversation about their career pathways in the museum field and their recommendations, insights, and pointers for emerging museum professionals.
Be sure to register in advance!

https://grad.sfsu.edu/content/graduate-excellence-celebration-week

Sharing this wonderful, free event for our friends at the Graduate College of Education to recognize, celebrate, and affirm Black Faculty and Staff on the San Francisco State Campus. Do you have a faculty, staff or student staff member to nominate? Send a photo and short bio of your nominee to [email protected]! And be sure to also register for the virtual event at the link to finalize the nomination. Register Here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-state-black-excellence-awards-registration-136558691723

Register HERE: https://www.outsidelands.org/Event/456 for the Grand Sutro Tour on February 17th at 6pm and receive the recipe for this signature cocktail to sip while you participate! This unique event is FREE for WNP members and SFSU Students - don't miss out - register TODAY!

Join Western Neighborhoods Project, SFSU Museum Studies Program, and the Global Museum for a fascinating Grand Tour of Sutro's Collection. This event is FREE for SFSU students and WNP members. Register in advance and receive signature cocktail recipes to sip while you participate! Register HERE: https://www.outsidelands.org/Event/456

Join the Western Neighborhoods Project and Dr. Lissette Jimenez -Egyptologist and Associate Professor in the Museum Studies Program at SFSU and be part of a live podcast audience! This event is FREE but you must register in advance.

(FYI Not a member of WNP? Join today! They offer great student discounts!!)

Event Registration Link: http://ow.ly/c45y50Dtja7

Check your SFSU email and register for the Eventbrite link to our next Coffee and Alum Panel Monday December 7th at 12:00 Noon!! Learn about how museum studies alums parlayed their valuable skills into jobs outside of the museum world.

Start getting your costume together for the MSSA Spookfest THIS WEDNESDAY!! Check you SFSU email for the ZOOM link - Scare You There!

Watch our graduate student Kathryn demonstrate an at-home art activity themed around abalone! This video is one of The Global Museum’s new digital education activities for our Climate Stories exhibition. We will be adding new videos, projects, and lessons throughout the semester so stay tuned!

Global Museum Grad Student Spotlight & Abalone Art Activity Join one of the Global Museum's grad students, Kathryn Papoulias, as she talks about her role at the Global Museum and demonstrates an easy abalone art activ...

Are you ready for the school year? feeling like you need a little guidance and support? MSSA wants to pair you with a mentor in the program? Want to offer a helping hand to an incoming student? Be a mentor!

Meet Your MSSA Officers for 2020-2021!! Want to participate in MSSA? You can!! Keep an eye out for emails telling you how.

Meet our Amazing Alumni Panel for Fridays Coffe and Alum Panel on Zoom from 11am to Noon. Post questions you would like to ask our Alum here and be sure to join us on Friday to ask questions and get support about career, job searches, professional development and more! See you there!

Powerful, heartwrenching, hopeful. Webinar now available to the public. "Let's do the work." Transcript also available at AAM's website, aam-us.org.

Racism, Unrest, and the Role of the Museum Field

The Global Museum and SFSU Museum Studies Program support and stand with the Black community and all communities of color.
Black Lives Matter.
Museums are not neutral.
Museums must be for everyone.
We are still learning and we still have work to do.
Read more for antiracist resources moving forward, on our website: https://museum.sfsu.edu/content/black-lives-matter-antiracist-resources-moving-forward

“...Practice what you preach.” -Lonnie G. Bunch III 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🙌🏻

"The profession has to model the America it believes in.

It’s not enough to be good, it’s crucial to be smart. It’s important to really practice what you preach." - Lonnie G. Bunch III

Our General Session "Racism, Unrest, & the Role of the Museum Field" with Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, and Lori Fogarty has wrapped up day 3 of .

The recording will be free & available to the public after . Due to capacity restrictions, the live session is limited to attendees.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture Has Released a New Portal to Help Americans Have Conversations About Race | artnet News Talking About Race collects more than 100 tools, including videos and scholarly articles, to aid people in conversations about racism.

Congratulations to the San Francisco State University Museum Studies class of 2020! The Global Museum co-hosted the virtual graduation ceremony yesterday for our graduate Master of Arts students and undergraduate minors. We are are so proud of all of their accomplishments, especially during a particularly challenging year. Some favorite memories from their time in the museum include moving sarcophagi, giving tours of the museum in English and Spanish, installing vinyl, and the Global Museum’s opening day. Congrats, graduates - we can’t wait to see what you do next!

3D MODELS EXPAND ACCESS TO MUSEUM COLLECTIONS | PHOTOGRAMMETRY | THE FUTURE OF MUSEUMS Technology and digitizing objects is the wave of the future and allows museums to share objects in their collections that might not be available to the publi...

“Together” is the theme of today’s Museum Week 2020! We are so grateful for our students, Museum Studies alumni, visitors, supporters, faculty, staff, and more, whether we’re together in person or virtually! Thanks to everyone who is a part of our Global Museum community ❤️🌎

Happy Friday and cheers to round 2 of our panel “The New Normal? Museums During and After Coronavirus” co-hosted with the Global Museum and the Museum Studies Program! Today’s panel went both out of state and international and featured museum professionals from the Oakland Museum of California, Reiman Gardens at Iowa State University, California Academy of Sciences, SFMOMA, and La Maison Léon-Provancher in Quebec. Thank you to our amazing alumni and museum community for sharing your insights and advice!

A huge thank you to the San Francisco State University Alumni Association for their feature on the Global Museum! Check out their page, which includes fun FAQs from the Global Museum Staff, who are all SF State alumni! (Two from Museum Studies!)

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On consider supporting Museum Studies students! Your donation will go towards providing remote student learning opportunities in the Global Museum, including developing online exhibits, creating K-12 classroom resources, and updating our digital collections database. Your donation supports the Global Museum and provides opportunities for students. Visit https://give.sfsu.edu/globalmuseum to make your donation. Any amount is appreciated!

A huge thank you to the SF State Museum Studies alumni who participated in yesterday’s Zoom panel “The new normal? Museums during and and after Coronavirus” co-hosted with Global Museum and the Museum Studies Program. Museum professionals and program alumni from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, California Academy of Sciences, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, and Museum of Sonoma County shared their insights and advice. We are so grateful for the support of our amazing alum family!

We can’t tell you how much we miss seeing our student assistants! Alex, a Global Museum student assistant and soon to be graduating undergraduate minor in Museum Studies (congrats, Alex!!), shares why they love the Global Museum:

"My name is Alex and I am an Engagement Specialist at the Global Museum. I love working with visitors at the GM because its such a cool social learning experience for both me and the visitor. I love teaching about the objects as much as I love learning about them. I am always looking for new ways to make connections to visitors.

Willow loves working there too! (Willow is an Emotional Support Animal)"

The Global Museum from a different angle...(hint: it’s our ceiling!). Our Museum Studies graduate student Ana reflects about her favorite part about the museum: “working hands-on in the Global Museum gave me a new perspective on exhibition design. The staff work from the bottom to the top...literally the top because the lights do not adjust themselves! Next time you visit a museum look up and remember someone had to get on a very tall ladder.” (Something to look forward to when we can visit museums again!)

Another Getty artwork challenge from our Museum Studies graduate student Dylainie! She recreates Vincent Van Gogh’s 1890 portrait of Adeline Ravoux, which resides in the collection of the Cleveland Art Museum 🎨