“Material Migrations,” like many of the practicum courses offered in the Program in Museums and Society, gave students the chance to engage directly with objects, conduct research in and around those materials and, most distinctively, develop a final project to be shared with a general audience. M&S practicum projects take the form of exhibitions both actual and virtual, interpretative materials (such as audio tours, gallery guides, and websites), and program development. I like to think of them as works of “public humanities”—ways of sharing the research we do in the university with a larger audience.