Kenneth Cohen, assistant professor of history and coordinator of the Museum Studies Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, is part of a team at the Calvert Marine Museum, located in Solomons, Md., that has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to renovate the museum’s estuary biology Find out more »
St. Mary’s College Faculty, Students Lead Renovation of Calvert Marine Museum Exhibit
Kenneth Cohen, assistant professor of history and coordinator of the Museum Studies Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, is part of a team at the Calvert Marine Museum, located in Solomons, Md., that has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to renovate the museum’s estuary biology Find out more »
Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum Executive Director Visits St. Mary’s College
Representatives from Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture visited St. Mary’s College on Tuesday, Feb. 26. They toured the campus, learned about St. Mary’s, the college’s programs, and explored opportunities for collaboration along the way. The museum’s executive director, Skipp Sanders; director of collections and exhibitions, Michelle Wilkinson; and Find out more »
Museum Studies Week at St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Events for Museum Studies Week at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, to be held on September 25 – 27, are open to the public and are free of charge. All events will take place in the college’s Cole Cinema: Tuesday, September 25, at 4:15 p.m.: “New Age Meets Old Age: How Colonial Williamsburg Handled the Great Find out more »
How Can We Open the Museum Door Wider?
History museums want more diversity in their visitors. Today, 95% of the audience is older, white, well-educated, and well off, says Julia King, associate professor of anthropology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. To help attract a broader audience, the public is invited to a panel discussion staffed by experts from the Advisory Council on Find out more »
The Battle Surrounding the Confederate Flag
It is 150 years after the Civil War and the Confederate flag still generates fierce emotions. What provokes such strong feelings? What did the flag mean then and what has it come to mean today? John M. Coski, historian and vice-president at The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, will discuss the history of Find out more »
How the Bible and Science Mix
Stephen Godfrey, a curator of paleontology at the Calvert Marine Museum, describes his journey developing perspectives on integrating the study of the Bible with a commitment to academic and scientific inquiry in a talk open to the public in Schaefer Hall 106 at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, starting at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 28. The Find out more »