Research Groups: Institutes, Labs and Centers

GLAM Incubator

The GLAM Incubator is a research and support hub that connects galleries, libraries, archives, and museums with industry partners, researchers, and students to advance the development of seedling projects that benefit cultural institutions, industry, and the research and teaching goals of universities worldwide. The overarching goal of the Incubator is to provide support to experimental projects that benefit the GLAM industries and engage faculty and students. A collaboration between the Faculty of Information and the Knowledge Media Design Institute, the GLAM Incubator provides space, administrative assistance, research expertise, equipment, event facilitation, funding, and knowledge mobilization.

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Affiliated faculty members

Patrick Keilty

Associate Professor

Javed Mostafa portrait

Javed Mostafa

Professor

Matt Ratto

Professor

Recent News

Museum Studies students (from left: Liz Sullivan, Lana Zagorac and Devin de Silva) at the opening of their capstone project exhibition at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Museum Studies students take capstone work from classroom to exhibit hall

The Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program is delighted to show off Museum Studies Capstone Projects from 2025. In the full year Capstone Projects course, teams of MMSt students collaborate with partners from the cultural and heritage sectors on a variety of exciting and innovative projects. The partners propose the project idea and outcomes, and […]

Museum Studies students (from left: Liz Sullivan, Lana Zagorac and Devin de Silva) at the opening of their capstone project exhibition at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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 […]

Panelists, including Twyla Gibson and Seamus Ross, at the 2016 ALISE Conference

In Memoriam: Professor Twyla Gibson (1954 – 2024) 

Friends and Colleagues remember Twyla Gibson as an interdisciplinary scholar whose information interests ranged from Plato to Marshall McLuhan  While she came to academia later in life than usual, Twyla Gibson, left a big imprint, including at the Faculty of Information, where she held an assistant professor appointment from 2007 to 2011.   Gibson was […]