As I write this, winter quarter has just begun, marking my second quarter as an international student in the Museology program. The transition from semester to quarter was challenging, but the real hurdles were the language barrier and cultural differences. In the beginning, these challenges felt like an invisible weight pressing on me, present in every interaction and task. To calm myself, I would repeat this thought: “The program admitted me for a reason—they believe I can make it.” While…
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Internship Spotlight – Wilson Lam
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, we spoke with Wilson Lam (’25) about his internship experience at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Can you tell us a bit about your internship? This internship was with the Wing Luke Museum’s Exhibits department. This position was created primarily to support the design and mounting of the exhibition Lost & Found: Searching for Homeland, which explores the themes of homeland and…
Student-created online exhibit: Let’s Wrap This Up
This post is from second-year Museology student, Ginger McCormick. Ginger explains about the online exhibit she created for a class she took that focused on archaeological looting and loss. Let’s Wrap This Up: The World’s Fascination of Egypt & the effects it had on looting For Archaeology 512: Looting & Loss, I created this digital exhibit to dive into the messy and often uncomfortable realities of looting and how museums have been part of that story. This class gave me…
Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part III)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the third of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by second-year Museology student Marcela Velandia. Inspiration and passion have been a central part of my life since…
Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part II)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the second of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by Mirka Jablonski, M.Ed. Kim is Museology Guest Faculty and is also a partner at Upper Left Projects….
Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part I)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the first of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by Kim Aziz, M.Ed. Kim is Museology Guest Faculty and is also the co-founder of Upper Left Projects….
Internship spotlight – Yanyue Guan
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Yanyue Guan (’25) about her internship experience at the China Cultural Relics Information Consulting Center. What organization did you intern with and what you did in your internship? During the summer, I returned to China and interned at the China Cultural Relics Information Consulting Center (CCRICC). During my internship, I participated in a collaborative project between CCRICC and…
Internship spotlight – Ash Gingery
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Ash Gingery (’25) about their internship experience at the Museum of Pop Culture. What organization did you intern with and what you do in your internship? I was lucky to have the opportunity to intern in the collections department of the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). My project centered on a sub-collection of materials related to the history…
Internship spotlight – Emily Shields
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Museology Communications and Marketing Assistant Marcela Velandia (’25) spoke with Emily Shields (’25) about her internship experience at the National Nordic Museum. What organization did you intern with and what did you do in your internship? I interned with the National Nordic Museum (NNM) in their Collections department. My role was to assist with collection operations, primarily cataloging some accessions. This meant creating digital catalog records by numbering…
Internship Spotlight – Amanda Rodgers
This post is part of our Internship Spotlight series. For this installment, Amanda Rodgers (’25) writes about her internship experience at the Pacific Bonsai Museum. From January to June of 2024, I was a Community Engagement Intern for the Pacific Bonsai Museum (PBM) in Federal Way, Washington. I was drawn to this internship for two main reasons: first of all, I’m particularly interested in what it looks like to display cultural practices—such as the cultivation and care of bonsai…