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A Conversation with Hallie Winter
Hallie Winter, curator at the Osage Nation Museum in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is the recipient of the 2018 Nancy Hanks Memorial Award for Professional Excellence, which honors a museum professional with less than 10 years’ experience in the … -
Appropriations Continues, Urge Senate to Support $2 Million Increase for IMLS
Appropriations Continues, Urge Senate to Support $2 Million Increase for IMLS Advocacy Alert – August 15, 2018 Urge Senators to Support $2 Million Increase for IMLS The United States Senate returns from its August recess today … -
The Ever Evolving American Identity: a New Mission at The Tenement Museum
What should a museum do when its subject matter becomes one of the most contested political issues of the day? This is the question I was quickly confronted with upon assuming leadership of the Tenement Museum in July 2017. With … -
Exploring a Fragmented Future
The second installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of 2040 is now up on the web for discussion and comment! Fragmentation is woven from some of the anxieties shared by museum people when I asked, “What are your fears about the future?” … -
Fragmentation: Underground activists fight for equity, privacy, and economic reform
Introduction to This Scenario “Fragmentation” weaves together some of the anxieties shared by museum people when we asked, “What are your fears about the future?” While we hope that these depressing themes don’t all play out at once, each … -
Tweeting about a Bright Future
Next week my colleagues and I at the Alliance will publish the second scenario in the set of future fictions that make up TrendsWatch 2018: The Planning Edition. This next installment, titled Fragmentation, explores a dystopian world … -
El museo, actor sociopolítico / The Museum as socio-political actor
Watch a video from the Reimagining the Museum conference held in Medellin, Colombia, November 1-3, 2017 with Marcelo Araujo, David Anderson, Robert Stein, and Améric… -
¿Qué es la valentía en las organizaciones? / Brave Organizations
Watch Andrés Roldán, Tony Butler, Martha Nubia Bello, Bonita Bennett, Kaywin Feldman speak about brave museums at the Reimagining the Museum conference held in Medellin, Colombia, November… -
El arte de ser relevantes / The Art of Relevance
Watch Nina Simon’s session at the Reimagining the Museum conference held in Medellin, Colombia, November 1-3, 2017 on the Art of… -
Ecologías Queer / Queer Ecology
Watch a session Queer Ecology led by Brigitte Baptiste from the Reimagining the Museum conference held in Medellin, Colombia, November…
Year: 2018
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