History of Museums – Page 2

“Museum Histories” course, Spring 2015

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:

Steven Lubar / November 14, 2014

I enjoyed speaking with Melissa Rayner as part of Gale/Cengage’s GaleGeeks webcasts. You can enjoy a recording here. (For those

Steven Lubar / November 10, 2014

Collecting for history museums is challenging work, and there needs to be more research and writing on both its history and

Steven Lubar / August 22, 2014

Meet the museumbot. Museumbots tweet random objects from museum collections, four or five objects a day. I know of three

I spent the last two weeks of June at Beautiful Data, a workshop funded by the Getty Foundation and run

In conjunction with the year-long exhibition project examining Brown University’s lost Jenks Museum, the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public

I’ve been blogging over at the Jenks Society for Lost Museums. You can see my thoughts on curatorial poetry and

Here’s the talk I wrote for the National Council on Public History conference at the end of March. It’s a piece

Steven Lubar / February 15, 2014

By popular demand, the full text of the article about the Brooklyn Naval Lyceum that appeared