Areas of Expertise

New, but proven

IU holds some 50 collections, comprising between them approximately 30 million objects. These collections—and the institutions that house them, including among others the IU Eskenazi Art Museum, the IU Libraries, the IU Paleontology Collection, the Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection, and the Kinsey Institute—provide essential learning and practice sites for you and your curatorship career. In addition to the strengths represented by the collections themselves, the Curatorship Program benefits from the scholarly potential represented among its faculty in a range of fields—among them Art History, Art and Design, Anthropology, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Biology, History, History and Philosophy of Science, Informatics, English, and Cultural Policy—who have used, or continue to use, collections as either the basis for, or the subject of, their original research and creative activity.

Curatorship's colleagues

As a Curatorship Program student, you will have the opportunity to engage with IU collections and top faculty found in all our partner schools. You will work with these faculty and your peers to bring together, for the first time, the full range of scholarship offered by IU’s collections in the pursuit of understanding humanity’s past, present, and future through material culture.  Click on the links below to sample just a few of IU Curatorship’s many participating collections.