Student Exhibits
Since 2003, Banting House has partnered with Western University’s Masters in Public History Program at Western University, providing these students with an opportunity to incorporate their in-school learnings in a professional museum setting. Serving as a ‘teaching museum’ Banting House has provided opportunities for the students to gain additional experience for their future careers as public historians and in return, Banting House has benefited from exhibit, program, and research support.
FACES OF DIABETES
In 2004, under the direction of Professor Alan MacEachern, students collaborated with Banting House to create Faces of Diabetes an exhibition spotlighting well known Canadians and Americans living with type 1 diabetes. Securing image rights and conducting oral history interviews, the students produced a series of exhibit panels for display.
SOCIAL MEDIA TAKEOVER
In 2025, as part of the Banting House November is Diabetes Awareness Month program, students from Professor Michelle Hamilton’s HIS 9807 course staged a social media ‘takeover’. Over the course of four weeks, the students reviewed the museum’s social media and brand policies, and produced series of posts, one theme per week. Bringing Frederick Banting to the present, the students focused on Banting’s views on supporting research in Canada, his impact on medicine and research using examples from our Dear Dr. Banting collection, and profiling Diabetes Canada funded researchers to commemorate Diabetes Canada’s 50th anniversary of funding research in Canada.
In 2023 Banting House partnered with the Huron University College class Making History Matter to the Public. Under the direction of Professor Erin Isaac, these fourth-year students examined the methods and modes of Active History being employed by scholars and public historians in North America. The students then took those learnings and, in collaboration with our curatorial staff, produced a series of short documentaries using the museum and its collection as a backdrop.