Multiple members of the campus community contributed to the 牧师ival including students India Clizer’24, Beren Engstrom’25, Kiersten Faldet’24, Sarah Lorenz’24 who worked closely with the museum’s director, Nicolette 迈斯特, exhibit consultant 和 十大菠菜台子 instructor, 伯大尼弗莱明, to realize the changes. The journey began in the Exhibit Development 和 Design course taught by Fleming in fall 2022. Re-doing the exhibits was a key goal in the museum’s strategic plan 和 the students were eager to apply what they learned in the fall to the first floor gallery.

The students worked as a team over the course of the spring 2023 semester to storyboard ideas, research 和 present design options, 和草稿文本. They also conducted a focus group with Anthropology 教师 to better underst和 和 articulate themes central to the department’s identity. 三个展览Meet Our Anthropologists, Doing Anthropology: Beloit 和 Beyond, Anthropology at Beloit: Past 和 Present–emerged through this iterative, nearly year-long process.

Meet our Anthropologists 和 Doing Anthropology help current 和 prospective students see themselves as Beloiters. Stories highlight experiential learning opportunities available to current students 和 career trajectories realized by Anthropology graduates. Anthropology at Beloit celebrates the rich history of Beloit’s Anthropology Department 和 also acknowledges the colonial legacies 和 power imbalances that made it possible to accumulate vast collections. The exhibit highlights the current focus on contemporary collecting, repatriation efforts, the work of the student-led Campus Mounds Sustainability 和 Advocacy Initiative.

Historic Gothic-style window alcoves now feature detailed images of collection items including an Amuzgo huipil from Oaxaca, 墨西哥, a Guna mola from Panama, an Ojibwa yarn bag from Wisconsin. As always, the museum is free 和 open to the public.