The University of Michigan Mummy at the Kelsey Museum of Archeology
Did you know the Kelsey Museum of Archeology is home to a mummy? Have you heard the tale of the mummy’s trip to University Hospital to receive a CAT scan? We’re unwrapping the story of the mummy with the Kelsey’s Director of Education, Cathy Person.
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Summer At The University of Michigan - Campus Museums
What wonders await you at the university’s many museums? UMMA, UMMNH, and Kelsey Museum of Archaeology all offer world-class experiences to engage with history, art, and science right here on campus—and the best part is that they're free and open to the public.
Check out their websites for hours of operation and more information:
umma.umich.edu
lsa.umich.edu/kelsey
lsa.umich.edu/ummnh
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Top Tourist Attractions in Ann Arbor - Travel Michigan
Top Tourist Attractions in Ann Arbor - Travel Michigan:
Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, University of Michigan, Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, Law Quadrangle, Main Street, Kerrytown, Michigan Theater, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, Hudson Mills Metropark, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, State Street
Intermuseum Conservation Association Installs Kelsey Museum Watercolors, Part 1 of 2
ICA staff complete the re-installation of watercolors belonging to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The panels depict the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii, Italy and were painted in the 1920s by artist Maria Barosso. Conservation of the panels was funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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Intermuseum Conservation Association Installs Kelsey Museum Watercolors, Part 2 of 2
ICA staff complete the re-installation of watercolors belonging to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The panels depict the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii, Italy and were painted in the 1920s by artist Maria Barosso. Conservation of the panels was funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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PaleoJoe in the Collections room at the University of Michigan
PaleoJoe studies the Arthrodire collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. The collections rooms at the U of M are quite large and have a wide variety of specimens for study.
32. The Power and Process of Creating Independence National Historical Park in Urban Philadelphia
Congress’s 1948 legislation for Independence National Historical Park (INHP) opened opportunities for a new kind of national park. The efforts of Philadelphians to establish and then be involved in the design of the federal park have been sustained through generations. The federal designation of approximately 50 acres in Philadelphia, with Independence Hall at the core, highlighted history and national landmarks, championed partnerships, and was planned also to revitalize private investment in neighboring historic properties and to establish connector green spaces between federal property and city property. Those were new ideas in 1948. Design opinions from local and federal experts were not always in sync but all agreed that the new park would be a major civic improvement. Architectural and landscape design have been conscientiously edited and selected in every phase of the park’s physical evolution from the 1950s to the current day and have been precedent setting in many ways. Interestingly, while the significance of events and historic buildings are the raison d’etre for the park, the green spaces have proven to be of vital importance. By most accounts the original goals for the park have been realized.
First, massive building demolition sparked some controversy that occasionally echoes today. Then, colonial revival design walls and gates, which are probably mistaken today as 18th century elements, were constructed to knit the city blocks into a subtly identifiable whole park and associated properties, like Christ Church cemetery and Washington Square. Advocates for formal axes (Edmund Bacon) won with the creation of open land to the north of Independence Hall, while advocates for use of historic street patterns and an urban sense of enclosure (Charles Peterson) could see their vision realized in the treatment of property east of Independence Hall, in ground level pavement, and in low brick wall outlines of missing buildings. Numerous historic structures were restored to their original appearance and some almost completely reconstructed. Venturi and Scott-Brown’s Franklin Court provided innovation in design rather than reconstruction of historic buildings, while using traditional materials. New gardens received special treatment from partners.
In 1997 there was both an opportunity to reexamine the mall design and an obligation to fix a location miscalculation of the park visitor center. Non-federal money enabled the mall to be redesigned in the late 1990s through the OLIN Partnership and other prominent architectural firms (Bohlin-Cywinski-Jackson, KMW, and Pei). This redesign was informed by a rigorous public engagement process for a master plan and adhered to the original vista concept. The new visitor center was built on the mall in 2001; in 2003 a building to house the Liberty Bell was constructed on the west side of the mall (and amended to interpret the Presidents’ House site); and the Independence Mall landscape was re-designed, and bookended in 2000 at the north end of the third block by the National Constitution Center/museum, that breaks from tradition in its form. Ideas new in 1948 have been sustained and are still proving their worth even if perspective on the novelty has changed.
Boegehold Memorial Service
May 21st, 2016
This is the Memorial service for Prof. Emeritus Alan Beogehold
Brown University
Graduate Research in the Third Century
This panel discussion at Rackham's 2018 Donor Appreciation Event included Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral fellows from a variety disciplines. Students presented their research and answered questions from the audience.
Graduate School Commencement Ceremony
Samuel Goudsmit | Wikipedia audio article
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Samuel Goudsmit
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Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (July 11, 1902 – December 4, 1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.