Museums – Page 3 – Steven Lubar

The Find-me-another machine (On Search)

Steven Lubar / September 26, 2015

[my presentation at the RISD Museum / Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology “On Search” Conference] I’d like to tell you about

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

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 / 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 / December 11, 2014

I am pleased to join a group of distinguished museum folks in this statement about the role of museums in

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