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Kelsey Museum Annual Report for 2019 The Kelsey Museum Contents of Archaeology Director’s Report . 1 Vision © 2020 by The University of Michigan. All rights reserved. The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology creates Museum Published 2020. Printed in the United States of America. knowledge, explores the past, and educates Exhibitions & Installations . 7 for the future. Public Programs . 9 The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor Comings & Goings . 11 Mission History of the Kelsey . 12 ISBN: 978-0-9906623-6-5 The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology advances Happenings: Spring Fling. 13 understanding and appreciation of the ancient Members . 14 Mediterranean world through our collections, Donors, Docents & Volunteers . 15 research, exhibitions, and fieldwork. Registry . 16 Edited by Leslie Schramer Conservation . 19 Values Education . 23 Cover design by Eric Campbell. STEWARDSHIP | preserving collections Exhibitions. 30 Newberry Hall under construction, ca. 1890 (Kelsey archival negative 4.3423); and information for future generations in Publications . 36 Color photo by Leslie Schramer, 2020. a sustainable way Bioarchaeology Lab . 39 RESEARCH | advancing knowledge through Administration . 43 Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are courtesy of Michigan Photography. scholarly inquiry and informed interpretation Facilities. 46 With special thanks to Randal Stegmeyer and Austin Thomason. EDUCATION | inspiring life-long learning Research through direct experience of the past Field Projects. 51 DISCOVERY | exploring new approaches Abydos Middle Cemetery Project, Egypt 52 to antiquity El-Kurru and Jebel Barkal, Sudan. 65 Gabii, Italy . 72 CREATIVITY | fostering innovative Notion, Turkey . 79 collaboration and presentation Olynthos, Greece . 90 RESPECT | finding strength in collaboration Individual Reports. 94 by valuing each other’s expertise and diverse perspectives Staff & Students . 105 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 434 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1390 734-764-9304 lsa.umich.edu/kelsey Director’s Report Terry G. Wilfong he Kelsey Museum of Archaeology supports hear praise long after it closed. (The exhibition Tteaching and research on ancient Mediterranean website is one of our most visited sections; see and Middle Eastern cultures through stewardship of “Website Statistics” on page 38). its rich collections, active exhibition, research and Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, publication programs, and sponsorship of ongoing Sudan (August 2019–March 2020), curated by Kelsey field research. Thousands of U-M undergraduates Museum Associate Research Scientist Geoff carry out museum-based assignments every year, and Emberling and Associate Curator of Conservation the Kelsey also houses the graduate Interdepartmental Suzanne Davis, focused on the devotional graffiti Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) found by the Kelsey’s expedition to Sudan. Using an and serves the needs of graduate students in a wide innovative display strategy involving photography, range of departments. In addition, the Kelsey reconstruction, and digital imaging, the exhibition Museum welcomed over 16,700 visitors in 2019, presented the graffiti in their context, while also including U-M students, faculty, and staff, Ann exploring wider issues raised by the graffiti and the Arbor community members, and the wider public. challenges posed by recording and conserving them. The curators’ innovative use of RTI imaging, in which the angle of light can be changed interactively, Exhibitions & Collections Research was demonstrated on touchscreens in the exhibition, In addition to its permanent display of approximately and remains available on the online version of the 1,500 objects, the Kelsey Museum mounts two special exhibiton, accessible through our website. The exhibitions annually, as well as smaller mini-exhibitions catalogue for the exhibition also marks a new and theme cases. These are teaching- and research- undertaking whereby all future books published by driven projects, undertaken by our permanent the Kelsey Museum will be made available as free faculty curators and occasional guest curators. downloads from the date of publication. (Most older This year, Kelsey staff worked with curators to Kelsey Museum publications are also available for prepare two exhibitions particularly tied to staff free download from the museum’s website.) and faculty research. During this period, we also prepared for Ancient Color (February–May 2019, extended upcoming exhibitions, including Randal Stegmeyer: to July 2019), curated by Kelsey Museum Director Exposing the Past (opening May 2020) and Discovery of Education Cathy Person and Conservator Carrie (opening February 2021). Roberts, explored the materials and technologies In addition to these full special exhibitions, we behind the colors used in the ancient Roman world, featured temporary single-case installations for two as well as the modern scientific approaches used to donor-funded programs. The Eleanor and Lawrence identify ancient pigments and dyes. This literally Jackier Prize program, now in its fifth year, recognizes color-full exhibition used a combination of colorful the work of undergraduate students on Kelsey artifacts, pigment, and material samples as well as Museum artifacts with a display of objects chosen high- and low-tech interactives and displays to by the prize-winning students. Our Kelsey in Focus immerse the visitor in a world of ancient color. program, entering its second year, was initiated to Ancient Color is clearly one of the most popular allow the Kelsey to display material from storage exhibitions we’ve ever done, and we continue to not ordinarily on view. In 2019 we featured two ii Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Director’s Report Kelsey Museum of Archaeology 2019 Annual Report 1 installations by Terry Wilfong: Coptic literary texts Field Research Dearborn campuses. Even more students from those graduate program, whose students work on Kelsey on ostraka (in honor of a University Library colloquium The Kelsey Museum was founded on an active campuses accessed the Kelsey collections via the Museum research projects, exhibitions, publications, on Coptic manuscripts) and Byzantine-period fans program of archaeological fieldwork and continues museum website. We have more or less reached and archaeological expeditions as part of their ongoing from the University of Michigan excavations at this major research program by supporting field physical capacity with these programs, given the professional development. Karanis (part of a larger research project) (see projects directed by Kelsey curators, research staffing level and physical limitations of our historic We also have an active K–12 program for local “Exhibitions & Installations” on page 8). The associates, and research scientists. The Kelsey building. We are currently exploring ways to expand students designed to engage young learners with final installment of the year was curated by Kelsey manages the grants and financial accounting for use of the collection for teaching beyond the the collections and make connections for lifelong Museum Curator Nicola Barham (with help from these projects and handles equipment purchases museum’s physical space. learning (and hopefully future U-M students). In Elaine Gazda) and features two Etruscan bronze and travel arrangements for both students and staff. Our new program to facilitate teaching with 2019, 1,759 K–12 students visited the Kelsey for tours figurines donated to the Kelsey by longtime We currently support five active field projects: artifacts beyond the museum, the Digital Study of and activities. supporter Ilene Forsyth. Nicola will take over Abydos in Egypt, directed by Janet Richards (Kelsey Kelsey Objects (DiSKO) program, has entered its curation of the Kelsey in Focus program in the Museum and Department of Middle East Studies); second year under the direction of Cathy Person coming year. El-Kurru and Jebel Barkal in Sudan, directed by Geoff (see “DiSKO” on page 18). This program to increase Job Searches In terms of facilitating research, the Kelsey Emberling (Kelsey Museum and Department of collections access for teaching will ultimately make Joint Position with Classical Studies: Museum had 15 individual researchers visit the Middle East Studies); Gabii near Rome, directed by it possible for students to examine, handle, and Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor museum to work on collections and archives Nicola Terrenato (Department of Classical Studies); manipulate high-quality 3D scans and printouts Our 2016/17 search for this position failed, so we in-house, while many more collections inquiries and Notion in Turkey, directed by Chris Ratté (Department of artifacts in ways that will greatly enhance their worked closely with the Department of Classical research needs were accommodated remotely by of Classical Studies); and Olynthos in Greece, understanding of how artifacts are made and used. Studies to broaden the job description to get a larger collections staff, curators, and the museum’s website. directed by Lisa Nevett (Department of Classical Given the great fragility of many of the Kelsey and more diverse applicant pool. Our efforts were One major accomplishment of 2019 was making the Studies). Kelsey field projects past and present will Museum artifacts, this program will allow students successful in that we received 64 applications, museum’s database fully available via our website be the focus of our upcoming exhibition Discovery, to actively use ancient tools and other objects of forming a strong
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