05/18/2026
May 18 is International Museum Day! This year’s theme is “Museums Uniting a Divided World”.
Museums are continuing to evolve, shifting from temples of treasures toward more community-centered spaces for dialogue, learning, and connection. Today we celebrate museums as places for sharing difficult knowledge, unlearning and relearning in respectful ways, and appreciating both the beauty of human creativity and the natural world around us.
Some of the faculty in the Museum Studies MA program contributed these vignettes about their favorite museums:
Museums are continuing to evolve, shifting from temples of treasures toward more community-centered spaces for dialogue, learning, and connection. Today we celebrate museums as places for sharing difficult knowledge, unlearning and relearning in respectful ways, and appreciating both the beauty of h...