Dr. Waldroup's HON 3515 seminar: Museums and Heritage Studies traveled to Washington, DC over Spring Break to visit museums and meet with archivists, curators, and other museum professionals. Highlights included a visit to the National Library of Medicine and the Smithsonian storage facility — an Ikea-sized storage unit filled with museum artifacts — in Suitland, MD. Students (shown in photograph in front of the Washington Monument) not only visited exhibitions but learned about museum careers and gained an understanding of museum collection and management policie.
Story and photo by Heather Waldroup, Ph.D.
Dr. Waldroup's HON 3515 seminar: Museums and Heritage Studies traveled to Washington, DC over Spring Break to visit museums and meet with archivists, curators, and other museum professionals.
