Museum Experience
Founder and Content Creator of web-based project museums.love. Development and production of video, audio, text, and photographic content about cultural heritage. Social media management and visitor analysis. Administration of Wordpress website including visitor analysis. 2020-present
“Unsicherheit und Debatte in Museumstexten: Wissen gemeinsam bauen” = "Uncertainty and Debate in Museum Texts: Creating Knowledge Together." Keynote talk and workshop with college students in Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama as part of Tischgespräch. Interdisziplinäre Diskussionsreihe für Studierende, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 8 June 2019
Workshops in Art History and Museum Studies, New York University Berlin
Co-Organizer (with Annette Loeseke):
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung (Pergamon Museum, Altes Museum, Neues Museum)
Author:
New York University Global Faculty Symposium “The Material Archive”
Guest scholar in Florence symposium on collecting, archiving, and displaying objects, 2015
Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice
Fellow in New York program addressing practical and strategic issues in curatorial work, 2014
History of Art Visual Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Restored, scanned, and cataloged Neuerburg image archive of Pompeian architecture, 2005
Restoration/Conservation of Plaster Casts of Greek Sculpture, UC Berkeley
Restored antique plaster casts in Classic Department collection; published related catalog entries, 2005
“Unsicherheit und Debatte in Museumstexten: Wissen gemeinsam bauen” = "Uncertainty and Debate in Museum Texts: Creating Knowledge Together." Keynote talk and workshop with college students in Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama as part of Tischgespräch. Interdisziplinäre Diskussionsreihe für Studierende, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 8 June 2019
Workshops in Art History and Museum Studies, New York University Berlin
Co-Organizer (with Annette Loeseke):
- “Augmenting the Pergamon: Interactive Media Arts and the Museum.” Digital technologies and bias in museum displays and narratives about contested cultural heritage. Guest: Pierre Depaz. 8 November, 2019
- "Whose Culture? Whose Heritage?" Global cultural heritage on Berlin’s Museum Island. Guest: Arjun Appadurai. 12 October, 2018
- “Difficult Heritage. Displaying the Disputes and Conflict Zones behind Museum Objects.” Communicating provenance in the Neues Museum. Guest: Christian Greco. 16 March, 2018
- “Egyptianizing: Exhibition Strategies in Berlin’s Egyptian Museum from the 19th to 21st Centuries.” Display concepts in the Neues Museum. Guests: Olivia Zorn, Mirjam Shatanawi. 29 April, 2016
- “Where is the Pergamon Altar?” Visitor orientation in the Pergamon Museum. Guests: Katharina Lorenz, Sharon Macdonald, Jane Masseglia, Andreas Scholl. 18–20 November, 2015
- “Decolonize Mitte! The Humboldt Forum, Museum Island, and Schloss.” Inaugural event of the series “Berlin Community Talks @NYU.” 19 November, 2018
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung (Pergamon Museum, Altes Museum, Neues Museum)
Author:
- Researched and composed object texts and bibliographies for traveling exhibition prepared by the Antikensammlung, Les maîtres de l’Olympe: Trésors des collections gréco-romaines de Berlin (Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec City), 2014
- Catalog of permanent collection, Die Antikensammlung: Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Pergamonmuseum, ed. Martin Maischberger, Agnes Schwarzmaier, Andreas Scholl, 2016
- Select texts for international exhibition Dangerous Perfection (Altes Museum, Berlin, 2016)
- All texts for international exhibition Jäger und Gejagte. Die exotische Tierwelt des römischen Mosaiks aus Lod, Israel (Altes Museum, Berlin), 2013
- Overview texts for comprehensive online database Das Berliner Skulpturennetzwerk, 2013
- Select object labels in permanent collection of Altes Museum, 2013
- Developed and led tours in English and French, focusing on the Greek, Roman, and Ancient Near Eastern collections of the Pergamon Museum; the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman collections of the Altes Museum; and the architectural history of Museum Island; 2012-ongoing
- Developed and led tours for New York University Berlin: “Death and the Divine in Antiquity,” “The Good Life (and Death) in Ancient Italy,” “Museum Island,” and “Palaces and Plaster Casts: Prussian Copies of Ancient Art” (Berliner Gipsformerei and Abgußsammlung)
- Developed and led workshop in Altes Museum for students of Q-Kolleg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and University of Nottingham), "Methods of Studying Images in Classical Archaeology"
New York University Global Faculty Symposium “The Material Archive”
Guest scholar in Florence symposium on collecting, archiving, and displaying objects, 2015
Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice
Fellow in New York program addressing practical and strategic issues in curatorial work, 2014
History of Art Visual Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Restored, scanned, and cataloged Neuerburg image archive of Pompeian architecture, 2005
Restoration/Conservation of Plaster Casts of Greek Sculpture, UC Berkeley
Restored antique plaster casts in Classic Department collection; published related catalog entries, 2005
Please also see the page of Stephanie's Exhibition Reviews, where two articles are currently available in their entirety.