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10 Career Tips From The First Woman To Lead The Smithsonian Air And Space Museum

By Joan Michelson, Forbes
Category: Career Management
Ellen Stofan made a deliberate decision to step back from her management career in aerospace to spend more time with her kids knowing she may have shut the door on those opportunities …

Museum Aims To Be A Model For Making Collections Available Via 3D Printing

By Ann Thompson, Wvxu
Category: Technology
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site in Indianapolis was one of the first museums to offer free 3D printing of its art collection, all in an effort to make it more accessible to the …

Returning looted artefacts will finally restore heritage to the brilliant cultures that made them

By Mark Horton, The Conversation
European museums are under mounting pressure to return the irreplaceable artefacts plundered during colonial times. As an archaeologist who works in Africa, this debate has a very real …

Rethinking the modern house museum

By Patrick Sisson, Curbed
Category: Financial Sustainability
A corkscrewing creation in the Arizona desert, the David and Gladys Wright House boasts an impressive pedigree. Built in 1952, this three-bedroom nautilus of a home, designed by …

Why Museums Should Be Proud Polling Sites

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Category: Community Engagement & Impact
By Charles A. Hyde, Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site smithsonian.com On a sweltering August morning in Washington, D.C., I found myself indoors at a conference of other heads of …

Montreal museum partners with doctors to ‘prescribe’ art

By BBC News, BBC News
Category: Health
Montreal physicians will soon have a new possible prescription for their patients: fine art. A doctors' organisation and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) are partnering to allow …

Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking.

By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
The word "museum" has become a bit like the word "art," used broadly to cover a range of institutions that may or may not be museums at all but aspire to the status of bein…

Where does police brutality fit in America’s first law enforcement museum?

By David Smith, The Guardian
Category: Community Engagement & Impact
The Washington institution is likely to spark debate over whether it gets the tone right in an era of police shootings and allegation…
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Education (EdCom)

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The American Alliance of Museums’ Education Professional Network (EdCom) advances the purpose of museums as places of lifelong learning, serves as an advocate for diverse audiences and educators, and promotes professional standards and …

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Leadership of this professional network

Sheri Levinsky-Raskin - Chair, EdCom
  • Assistant Vice President, Research & Evaluation
  • The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY
Tony Pennay - Immediate Past Chair, EdCom
  • Chief Learning Officer
  • Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Simi Valley, CA

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EdComversations 2.0
By Tony Pennay, Sheri Levinsky-Raskin, and Rebekah Harding
Category: Education & Interpretation
American Alliance of Museums Recognizes Excellence in Museum Educators and Programs
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Category: Press Release
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By Sage Morgan Hubbard
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Category: Education & Interpretation
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Spotlight: Three Must-Reads on Technology

Collection Data: Technology to Improve Access and Retention

By Anne M. Young

Artificial Intelligence The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Learning by Design: A New Era for Education at the Computer History Museum

By Lauren Silver