About This Exhibition
October 18, 2017–May 27, 2018, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
We developed this exhibition as a collaboration between the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology to celebrate the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial. Initial (and ongoing) inspiration for the exhibition arose from research for the book Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections, 1817–2017, edited by Kerstin Barndt and Carla M. Sinopoli (University of Michigan Press, 2017), itself a Bicentennial-related project.
In the News
- Museum celebrates U-M bicentennial by featuring 200 objects in 200 days (The University Record, April 12, 2017)
- Ugly Object - July 2017 (Kelsey Museum Blog)
- Ugly Object - August 2017 (Kelsey Museum Blog)
- Ugly Object - October 2017 (Kelsey Museum Blog)
- From the Archives #24 (Kelsey Museum Blog)
- Podcast: Object Lessons (Michigan Today, November 16, 2017)
- From the Archives #25 (Kelsey Museum Blog)
- Francis W. Kelsey and the “Michigan Relics”: A Case of Archaeological Fraud (Kelsey Museum Newsletter, Fall 2017, pp. 4–5)
- Ugly Object - February 2018 (Kelsey Museum Blog)
Related Events
- September 21, 2017 Book Signing: Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge
- October 18, 2017 Susan Alcock, Exhibition Opening Lecture: Guaranteed a 99.3% Survival Rate: The Archaeological Futures of U-M Museums
- October 21, 2017 Family Day
- November 12, 2017 Curator Tour
- December 8, 2017 Lisa Çakmak, Keynote Lecture: Uncovering Archaeology in American Museums
- December 8–9, 2017 Student Symposium: Into the Third Century: The Past, Present, and Future of Michigan’s Archaeological Museums
- February 21, 2018 New Archaeology Music
- May 6, 2018 Curator Tour
Other Museum Bicentennial Events
- September 26, 2017 Book Launch: Object Lessons
- October 13–December 30, 2017 Exhibition: Object Lessons: Recollecting Museum Histories at Michigan
- November 16, 2017 Carla Sinopoli, Farrand Memorial Lecture: Object Lessons Continued: The Second (and Third) Century of University of Michigan Museums and Collections