A few notes on... keeping notes.

Prior to the University's current Museum Studies graduate minor, a museology program was offered through the Department of Art History. The program, as well as a discussion of the field of museum work, is described in a July 3, 1975 article in the MN Daily titled, "Art interns: learning in a crowded field" (pg. 9).

From a folder of records documenting a course in museology at the University Art Museum in Spring 1985, a chart detailing The Planning, Designing, Construction, and Installation of Exhibitions:

Seventy-seven years ago, on April 5, 1934, the experiment in fine arts, the "Little Gallery" opened at the University of Minnesota in a few rooms on the top floor of Northrop Auditorium. The front page of the MN Daily for April 5th announces the opening convocation that was held to commemorate the opening, and advertises that Mr. Russell A. Plimpton, of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, would be giving a speech titled, "Who Started Museums Anyhow?," to include a slide presentation of, in Plimpton's regard, "some of the most interesting museums in the world."

As I reached to pull the folder titled, "Victorian Questionnaire" out of the box and opened the front flap to transfer the contents, to my surprise, there were no loosely assembled papers or correspo

An Italian artist named Luciano Lattanzi had an exhibition titled "Semantic Paintings and Drawings" at the University Gallery in 1960. While logging his file, I found a mysterious stack of pen drawings, rendered in a spiderweb-like scrawl. These turned out to be made by the artist himself — you can see his signature at the bottom of the images. I realized these were templates for a promotional poster for the show. The file contained a reproduction of the following drawing, so I assume they chose this for the poster: