Steven Lubar

Teaching exhibitions

Steven Lubar / January 25, 2012

Here’s the syllabus for my exhibitions course:

Steven Lubar / January 20, 2012

The last six weeks have been winter break at Brown. And it’s been an incredibly busy time at the Haffenreffer

Steven Lubar / January 20, 2012

Pleased to announce that MuseumsEtc will include an essay on our work at the Haffenreffer Museum in a forthcoming volume entitled

Steven Lubar / January 9, 2012

In February the museum will open CultureLab. I’ve written about it before, when it was just an idea – that post

Steven Lubar / December 29, 2011

I’ve written before about the discovery of “ethnographic busts” in the museum’s collection, and about my plans to use them

Steven Lubar / December 28, 2011

I’ve always been a bit suspicious of branding. Important for selling things, perhaps, but museums aren’t in the selling business.

Steven Lubar / August 19, 2011

Anthropology museums are not easy places to explain. For those who know about the history of the anthropology, they carry

One of the first problems I identified on becoming director of the museum was its collections management system. It infuriated

Here’s a page from Roger William’s copy of the Eliot Bible with his notes in (what I believe is) 18th-century

The fiscal year ends June 30, and that means time to write reports. Financial reports, visitor reports… if we’ve planned