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Making History Accessible: Toolkit for Multisensory Interpretation
In 2019, the Intrepid Museum and New York University Ability Project brought together staff of historic sites, disability advocates, and experts in historic preservation and museum accessibility to address how to remove barriers to … -
Get it Together: A Regional Approach to Connect to Descendant Communities
Museums that care for Native American cultural objects or educate the public on Native American histories must work with descendant communities. Outreach from multiple institutions, however, can overburden these communities. In this panel, … -
Different Lenses for Addressing Our Planet Crisis
It will take more than the media and science-based institutions to educate the population about the climate crisis and how individuals can take personal or collective action. This session will bring together representatives of a university … -
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
Public engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to reduce carbon pollution. In this session, hear … -
Leaning into Value: Measuring and Monetizing Visitor Experiences
How do you demonstrate that your institution provides social value and community impact? This is a question that all museum boards, leadership, and staff contemplate, but supplying the data that policy makers expect can be challenging. … -
Access Journey: From One-Off Events to Creating a Culture of Accessibility
How do we ensure that our accessibility efforts are all-encompassing and more than a one-off event? Creating an institutionalized culture of accessibility might feel like an overwhelming task, but it is one that is necessary and rewarding … -
Every Museum is a Community Museum Defining and Prioritizing Communities
Before the field evaluates community impact, it must address an elephant in the room: the implicit (and sometimes explicit) binary between “visitors” and “community.” Is every visitor a member of a museum’s community? This panel will … -
B.U.I.L.D.-ing Empathy: A Framework for Reinvigorating Your Workplace
One of the throughlines of my career in social services has been witnessing the power of empathy. I first discovered this power as an undergraduate criminal justice major, when I completed a field placement at a local juvenile detention … -
Meeting an Educational Need at the William King Museum of Art
To reach rural schools, staff at the William King Museum of Art get in the Va… -
Point of View: Leading from the Front Lines
As museums focus on community engagement, museum educators are more important…
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