Certificate in Museum Studies
(Autumn, UW Campus, Seattle)
Developed in partnership with the UW Museology Program and the UW Departments of Art History and History

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Ralph Bufano
President Emeritus of the Museum of Flight, former Director of the Experimental Aircraft Association Aviation Foundation in Oshkosh, WI and Ward Museum in Salisbury, MD, Museum Assessments Programs accreditation surveyor for the American Association of Museums and fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

Tim Detweiler
Executive Director of the James W. Washington, Jr. and Janie Rogella Washington Foundation, and formerly Project Manager at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington and at the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation in Delaware.

Lisa Hill-Festa
Curator of Collections/Collections Manager at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, and formerly part-time Director of Edmonds Historical Museum and a Museum Assessment Program peer reviewer for the American Association of Museums.

Rina Luzius
Assistant Collections Manager in Ethnology at the Burke Museum and part-time instructor in UW Museology Graduate Program.

Seth Margolis
Director of Education Program at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington and formerly with the education department of the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.

Patricia Watkinson
Former executive director of Pilchuck Glass School, Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, and at Washington State University as curator of Museum of Art and instructor of art history and gallery procedures.

Instructors are subject to change.