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Is Instagram culture a positive influence for museums?

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Category: Marketing & Public Relations
I would expect many of us who work in the industry remember the first time we visited a museum we have since grown to love, the first time we saw an exhibition that would change our …

Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In

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Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it. There's a quote that takes …

Women are increasingly getting the top museum jobs. Will more of them finally get equal pay?

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Category: Career Management
July 2 It began with a flurry of landmark appointments. Last year, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum welcomed Ellen Stofan as its first female director, and then Anthea Hartig …

Crab Cakes, Waffles, Art: Baltimore Museum of Art Opens Branch at Storied Local Market

By Andrew Russeth, ARTnews
Category: Community Engagement & Impact
For more than two centuries, Lexington Market has been one of Baltimore's great meeting places, a jam-packed base of operations for hundreds of vendors, from butchers to produce specialists …

The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day

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Category: Influence of Museums
The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: "What would the Met's walls look like if there were no refugees?" Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and …

To Boost Audience Engagement, the Delaware Museum of Art Tries Something Radically Simple: Post-Its

By Sarah Cascone, artnet News
Category: Community Engagement & Impact
Big changes are coming to the galleries of the Delaware Art Museum, and visitors are already getting a sneak peek at what's in store. As the museum plans for an upcoming reinstallation of …

A Tibetan Collection Fights a Battle That Small Museums Often Face

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Category: Small Museums
Limited staff, tight budgets and age have taken a toll on Staten Island's Jacques Marchais Museum, but a major renovation is now being planned. Jacques Marchais, an art dealer and …

The Cleveland Museum Studied How to Best Engage Visitors in the Age of Netflix. Here’s What They Found

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Category: Technology
In the ongoing quest to stay relevant in a world dominated by digital natives, just about every major museum has rolled out some form of interactive technology within its program. We've …
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