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Drop-in Collection Tour—What Can Art Teach About Medical Practice?
Join museum educator Jen Thum of the Harvard Art Museums for an interactive gallery experience that explores the relationship between art and medicine. Participants will dig into themes of care, empathy, objectivity, and power and will learn how museums and medical programs partner on art-based programs to improve patient care.
Tours begin at the welcome desk in Sculpture Hall and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Corporate Partnership Program Members on a tour
About the facilitator
Jen Thum is associate director of academic and campus partnerships and a research curator at the Harvard Art Museums. In these roles, she oversees university-level interdisciplinary learning; directs a gallery-teaching training program for graduate students across Harvard; facilitates object-based learning workshops for faculty and students; teaches the museums’ medical humanities programs; and works on research, teaching, and curatorial projects related to her expertise in ancient Egyptian art. Thum holds a doctorate in archaeology and the ancient world from Brown University and an master of philosophy degree in Egyptology from the University of Oxford. She is the author/editor of multiple publications at the intersection of Egyptology and museum pedagogy, including Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice and the forthcoming Objects of Inquiry: A Field Guide to Interdisciplinary Learning in Art Museums. Thum also currently serves as the Archaeological Institute of America’s vice president for outreach and education.
