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Thu, Oct 23, 2025 5:30pm–7:00pm

Museum Director Talk with Christina Olsen, “Flexing the Museum: The Global Museum in the 21st Century?”

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Thu, Oct 23, 2025
5:30pm–7:00pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium

Presented by the U-M Museum Studies Program, UMMA Director Christina Olsen wrestles with museums’ changing shapes and missions, ethics and publics in a wide-ranging conversation about why and how art museums matter in the world today. The discussion will explore museums across Argentina, the UK, Belgium and Portugal Olsen visited recently during a sabbatical.  Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Photo of Christina Olsen speaking at a microphone for event at UMMA.

More About Christina Olsen

Christina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums, and lectures and writes frequently on the future and changing role of art museums. She received her PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

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This program is organized by the U-M Museum Studies Program.