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‘Not on the Exam’ with Iz Leitch, Student Services Assistant
If you’ve been to the Office of the Registrar and Student Services, chances are you’ve met Iz Leitch and Min Kang, the team behind the front desk. For this back-to-school edition of our regular “Not on the Exam” feature, we’re talking with Iz, whose official title is Student Services Assistant. How did you come to […]
What keeps us together
This September marks an important transition for the Faculty of Information. As work begins to revitalize the Bissell Building, our community will be spread across different spaces on the St. George campus. A change like this invariably brings disruption, but it also offers opportunities. With our physical home under construction, the connections that define our […]
Helping museums take the lead in repatriation
While most museum repatriations begin with an external request, a new international research project, led by Faculty of Information Professor Cara Krmpotich, will examine how museums can instead take the initiative in returning cultural belongings and ancestral remains. Krmpotich has received a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant to lead the three-year project with co-director Dr. John […]
MMSt students partner with Bata Shoe Museum to study visitor experience
A student team from the University of Toronto’s Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program is helping the Bata Shoe Museum better understand how visitors experience its flagship exhibition, All About Shoes: Footwear Through the Ages. For more than 30 years, the museum has explored the role of footwear in shaping cultures and societies. As curatorial approaches evolve and visitor expectations shift, the museum is taking […]
MMSt students partner with Native Canadian Centre to support Indigenous collections
In their capstone projects course, students in the Master of Museum Studies program are working with the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (NCCT) to support the care of Indigenous cultural materials, improve access to them, and deepen understanding of their significance. The NCCT stewards a diverse and growing collection of artworks, newspapers and audiovisual materials from across Turtle […]
Museum Studies in action: Capstone Projects 2025/2026
As the 2025/2026 Capstone Projects season concludes, students in the Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program are showcasing the results of year-long collaborations with cultural and heritage sector partners. Thirteen project teams worked collaborated with museums, archives, and related organizations cultural centres to develop and implement public-facing and behind-the-scenes initiatives projects responsive to institutional and […]
Student Mini-Exhibits from Curatorial Practice
Stop by the fifth floor of the Bissell Building to explore Master of Museum Studies student exhibits inspired by the theme of home.These works were curated as final assignments for Curatorial Practice course (MSL2000H) taught by Assistant Professor Maggie Hutcheson, and they offer a thoughtful look at how students interpret identity, belonging, and place. On […]
Re-writing Romanian History
Using Romanian museums as an example, Professor Irina D.Mihalache is exploring how museums cope with political pressure.
Museum Studies students take capstone work from classroom to the world
As the 2025 capstone season concludes, students in the Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program are showcasing the results of year-long collaborations with cultural and heritage sector partners. Ten project teams worked with museums, archives, and related organizations to develop and implement public-facing initiatives grounded in real-world needs. The students are mentored by Professors Irina […]
Decolonization in action: A Museum Studies example
Museum Studies lecturer Bruno R. Véras helped the Faculty of Information play a key role in a recent decision by Harvard University to repatriate two human skulls to Brazil, including one believed to belong to a Muslim rebel who took part in an important slave revolt in 1835. Véras, who is Brazilian himself, first became […]
MMSt students’ exhibit on sound in the movies launches at TIFF
For their capstone project, Museum Studies students Liz Sullivan, Lana Zagorac and Devin de Silva collaborated with TIFF’s Film Reference Library to explore how sound effects, music and even silence shape audiences’ experience and linger long after the credits roll. The resulting exhibition, From Silence to Sound: Tuning the Auditory Experience, features objects from the the library’s Christopher […]
Activating Indigenous photographic history at Deyohahá:ge:
As Indigenous histories have been systematically erased, many First Nations’ analog records remain uncatalogued and inaccessible. These physical artifacts, including important films and photographs, are particularly at-risk for degradation and loss. Given that archives hold the evidence of history and that the histories we know are the histories available to us, the Faculty of Information’s GLAM […]
MMSt alum Rhéanne Chartrand on her new role as the ROM’s Hatch Curator of Indigenous Art & Culture
When she graduated from the Master of Museum Studies program in 2011, Rhéanne Chartrand was thrilled to be one of the first in her class to land a job in her field. A few months later, however, the organization she was working for folded and she found herself unemployed. It was a “reality check” about […]
Jazz Journeys with Alan Stanbridge
For the vast majority of working jazz musicians, the metaphor of the journey has profoundly real implications. It is perhaps unsurprising then, writes Professor Alan Stanbridge in Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, that the theme of travelling has featured extensively in the history and discourses of jazz, in ways that often blur or conflate the real, the fictional and the metaphorical. These […]
See students’ Curatorial Practice mini-exhibits
Stop by the fifth floor of the Bissell Building to six “personal mini exhibits” put together by Master of Museum Studies students taking the Curatorial Practice course (MSL2000H) taught by Assistant Professor Maggie Hutcheson. The challenge of the personal mini exhibit is for students to communicate an aspect of their own history, identity, community or lived […]
MMST students, alumna contribute to Governor General’s Award-winning exhibit
Students from the Museum Studies capstone course (2022/23) played a key role in creating an exhibit that has just been named winner of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Community Programming. Grace Kovacs, Hanjia Li, Abera Rajendran and Marie Song helped put together “Standing in the Doorway: Lived Histories and Experiences of the Chinese Community”. The exhibit drew on new oral histories, loaned […]
Remembrance Day: Students explore an RCAF Sergeant’s daring escape from a WWII POW camp
Museum Studies students dig up rare ‘diary’ detailing daily life in German POW camps. It’s on display in a new exhibit at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton Vincent Mancini enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1940 at age 28, training as a navigator. Two years later, his aircraft […]
Congratulations to our newest grads!
The Faculty of Information celebrated its newest grads on October 30. A total of 105 Master of Information students received their degrees alongside one Master of Museum Studies student and five PhD students. Congratulations to all 112 of our Fall 2024 grads. Photos from the ceremony and reception are now available to browse and download.