Lowell D Holmes Museum of Anthropology

06/19/2023

06/13/2023

Anthropology and Museum Studies Alum, Gracie Tolley gave a presentation of her MA research in accessibiliy in museums at the Association for Academic Museums and Galleries Conference at KU.

05/25/2023

Neff Hall on the Wichita State University Campus houses one of the best kept travel secrets in Kansas. The Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology is a fascinating, free museum which you will probably have entirely to yourself. The Holmes museum is a teaching museum operated by students enrolled in the Museum Studies Program and gives potential museum professionals hands on experience in museum administration, operations, and exhibition. The museum's collections include a wide range of cultural, archaeological, and biological objects, with the largest collections being Asmat and Native American.

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05/23/2023

Congratulations to Anthropology and Museum studies alum and former Holmes Museum GA and staff member, Gracie Tolley for her new job at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as the Collections Manager for archaeology and cultural anthropology. We are so proud of you!!!

05/23/2023

Some fun Pizza Hut memories left in the The Original Pizza Hut Museum

05/19/2023

We had visitors from New York today.

05/17/2023

The Highland Intermediate school from Pearl City Hawaii came into the museum today for a tour. They are here for the National Science Olympiad competition.

05/15/2023

A few items from the Pizza Hut Museum are on loan to the Smoky Hill Museum in Salina as part of a “decades” themed exhibit. If you have never been to the Smoky Hill Museum you should! It’s definitely worth the short drive to Salina! While you’re there you can also visit the Salina Art Center.

05/12/2023

Full time Curator position at TKAAM!

The Kansas African American Museum (TKAAM) seeks a dynamic, creative, and culturally engaged museum professional for the position of Curator.

To learn more about this opportunity visit tkaamuseum.org

05/11/2023

Changing out items in the Pizza Hut Museum.

05/11/2023

Summer hours change: From May 15-August 18 the museum will be open by appointment only. If you would like to visit or schedule a tour please email [email protected].

05/05/2023

Museum position in Manhattan

A new Collections Manager & Registrar job is available in Manhattan, Kansas. Check it out on AAM jobHQ.

05/03/2023

Congratulations to our Curator of Collections, Angie Guevara. She will be graduating this semester with her BA in Anthropology!

04/26/2023

Great exhibit opening today. Thank you to everyone that stopped by.

04/24/2023

Exhibit Opening tomorrow!!! The students are putting on the final touches to their exhibits today. Come see all their hard work tomorrow from 2-5!

04/06/2023

The museum students have been working hard on creating some incredible exhibits. Everyone is invited the the exhibits opening!

03/31/2023

Job opening for Museum Educator at the National Music Museum in Vermillion South Dakota.

DescriptionThe National Music Museum (NMM) within the University of South Dakota campus invites applications for the position of Curator of Education (Museum Educator). The NMM houses one of the world’s finest and largest collections of musical instruments and related archives and is in the final ...

03/27/2023

Empty cases + fresh paint + cool artifacts = New Exhibits!!! Come discover what stories these objects will tell at the Spring Student Exhibits Opening on Tuesday April 25th from 2-5.

03/24/2023

Here is the latest edition of the Holmes Happening Newsletter.

03/10/2023

The museum will be closed for Spring Break March 10th-17th. We will be open regular hours on March 20th.

03/08/2023

Asmat: People of the Trees, exhibit installation in the Looking Glass Gallery in the RSC today.

03/02/2023

Happy Women's History month!
Margaret Mead was a cultural anthropologist. She was best known for her studies of the peoples of Oceania, especially with regard to various aspects of psychology and culture—the cultural conditioning of sexual behavior, natural character, and culture change. This photo is Margaret in New Guinea.

02/22/2023

Students from Intensive English came to the museum for a tour today. Curator of Collections Angie Guevara (senior) is talking to the students about how we take care of objects.

02/16/2023

"We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology."

- Marshal Sahlins, American anthropologist

02/13/2023

Ceramic ! (Try saying that 10 times)⁠
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Fannie Nampeyo, Bowl, c. 1930. Polychrome ceramic. Gift of Clark Field, 1942.14.2199. © Fannie Nampeyo

02/08/2023

The museum exhibition class met with exhibit designers Chuck Regier and Nathan Bartel at the Kauffman Museum in North Newton today. One of the temporary exhibits is Reeds and Wool. It’s a beautiful collection of woven screens from the nomadic Kyrgyz people. Kauffman Museum

01/16/2023

The museum will be open for the semester on Tuesday, January 17th from 1:00-5:00. We are open Monday-Friday 1:00-5:00 or by appointment. Admission is free, donations accepted.

12/08/2022

Congratulations to graduate students Jordan Larzalere and Jacob Collins for successfully passing their MA defenses and both will be graduating this semester with an MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies Certificate!!

12/01/2022

The Museum Methods class had their last museum tour of the semester by touring a historic house museum, the Frank Lloyd Wright's Allen House. What a great tour. We learned a lot.

11/29/2022

The Museum Methods class installed a new exhibit in the library today entitled “The Cultures of Mexico: Past and Present”. This was the first exhibit that any of them have created.

11/11/2022

Thank you to Jami Frazier Tracy and Samantha Carter for giving the Museum Methods class a tour of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

11/08/2022

Museum Studies students at the Kansas Museums Association Conference.

10/25/2022

  Job Summary Under the direction of the Missouri Valley Special Collections manager, the Special Collections Librarian/Archivist organizes, describes, and preserves archival materials including historical documents, photographs, maps, and other records. Provides reference service to....

10/24/2022

Check out the latest edition of the Holmes Happenings Newsletter.

10/24/2022

Graduate assistant, Ria Morgan talks to Dr. Dozier’s Intro to Archaeology class about curation. Here she is explaining about accession numbers.