Museum Musings Rethinking the Museum Discussion and Reception with Philip Spiess, George Washington University David Yager, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Thursday, June 15, 2006, 6 – 8 p.m. Koshland Science Museum 6th and E Sts NW $5 charge RSVP recommended; ksm@nas.edu or (202) 334-1201
Join the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs and the Koshland Science Museum for a discussion of the history and future of museums. Find out how cutting-edge technology, programming, and interdisciplinary study may change the way in which we conceptualize museums. The program will include a discussion, followed by a reception, with Philip Spiess of George Washington University and David Yager of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on the intersections and disjunctures between traditional concepts and the future of museums. Philip Spiess is a professor in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, where he has taught since 1984. He is a museum consultant and frequent guest lecturer in a number of museum studies programs worldwide. David Yager is distinguished professor and executive director of the Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Yager directs the University's Center for Convergent Design and is the founding director of the Imaging Research Center. The program will take place from 6-7 pm in the Koshland Science Museum, 6th and E Streets, NW, followed by a reception in the First Floor Gallery of the Keck Center of the National Academies at 500 Fifth Street, NW. Direct access will be available from the museum into the adjoining gallery. This event is held in conjunction with Museum Muses: Barton Lidicé Benes and Justine Cooper

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