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Mind the Accessibility Gap
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Accessibility
When we talk about equity, diversity, and inclusion in museums, we have a usual list of groups we mention: Black and Indigenous people, other people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, unhoused …
Information for the Museum Field on the COVID-19/Coronavirus
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Health
With the growing spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) in the United States, museums must be well prepared for potential outbreaks as public spaces, employers for over 726,000 individuals, and …
Why We’re Staying Closed
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Many museums are struggling with when, and whether, to open, reclose, and reopen. These enormously difficult decisions may determine whether the organization survives the current crisis. …
Never Waste the Walls: What PK-12 Schools Can Learn from Museum Design
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Facilities
Generally speaking, children are much more enthusiastic about heading to a children’s museum than school, even though learning occurs in both places. Visit a children’s museum any day of …
Mutual Aid in a Time of Crisis
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The upheavals of 2020 are drawing more attention to a venerable form of community self-help: mutual aid societies. These self-organized support groups arose in the eighteenth century as a …
Introducing the Museum Distance Learning Repository
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Education & Interpretation
When our institutions shut their doors for the foreseeable future just over a month ago, museum educators did what they do best. That is to say, we pivoted. Across the continent—and around …
Will COVID-19 Change Museum Architecture?
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COVID-19
Here’s a happy thought: COVID-19 will—at some point—recede, and like pandemics of the past it will be history, another story to tell. But after the disease is gone, will any of the …
Outside > Inside: Outdoor Exhibitions in the Era of COVID and Black Lives Matter
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Technology
A doctor friend recently shared a social media post listing a five-point coronavirus plan: Masks Close bars Socially distance Test & isolate Outside > inside Like her, it was …
