Steven Lubar

Building a skiascope

“The theoretic value of the skiascope is incontestable.” —Benjamin Ives Gilman In

Here’s what I told the graduating class. It refers back to what I told them when they arrived. Best wishes,

Here’s the presentation I gave at the Mathers Museum’s “Museums at the Crossroads: Local Knowledge, Global Encounters” workshop last week. More

These are the slides and my notes from my talk at Marymount University, the Bissel Lecture in the Humanities, presented

I talked to the “Methods in Public Humanities” class today about exhibitions. A very quick overview, and didn’t even get

Steven Lubar / February 22, 2015

When I taught a course on the history of museums, I found it useful to have a ready source of

Steven Lubar / February 7, 2015

Museum curators have certain ways of doing things, certain rules they follow. It’s important to know what these rules are

Steven Lubar / January 14, 2015

My article on the history and philosophy of collecting at the National Museum of American History has been published in

Steven Lubar / January 9, 2015

Here’s the syllabus for my upcoming course, AMST1903I. It’s a history of museums, mostly American, history and science as well

Steven Lubar / January 4, 2015

I go to the American Historical Association annual meeting about once every ten years. The usual complaints keep me away: