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Berkeley faculty, staff and alumni — and participants from as far away as Alaska — collaborate on a four-day, first-of-its-kind Native American Museum Studies Institute designed to give Indians the tools to “tell their own stories, and to tell the stories from their perspective.”
Tag: Hearst Museum
Hearst Museum to close temporarily for transformation
June 30, 2012:
An extensive redesign of UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology means a temporary closure starting July 1; reopening is scheduled for 2014.
Anthropologist Burton Benedict dies at age 87
September 23, 2010:
Burton Benedict, a professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and former director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, died of heart failure on Sunday (Sept. 19) at his Berkeley home. He was 87.
