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

Mary Elizabeth Luka

Associate Professor

Javed Mostafa portrait

Javed Mostafa

Professor

Matt Ratto

Professor

Recent News

Museum Studies student's mini exhibit on display in Bissell Building

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 […]

The co-founders of Hypercare: Umar Azhar, Faculty of Information grad Albert Tai and Dr. Joseph Choi.

Alum Albert Tai’s entrepreneurial journey

Alumnus Albert Tai’s Hypercare startup was featured in the Globe and Mail this week as one of four U of T startups that are solving global challenges with innovative solutions. Tai, who graduated from the Faculty of Information in 2017, launched Hypercare that same year, together with Dr. Joseph Choi, an emergency physician and assistant […]

People at the Standing in the Doorway Exhibit. Image also features Chinese characters

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 […]