Trending Now: “Museum Schools”
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
If you attended the CFM session on the future of education at the annual meeting in Atlanta last year, you may remember the lines that stretched up the aisle as folks waited to talk to …
Moving Primary Schools into the Museum
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
The museum school movement in the US is gaining steam, and now our colleagues in the UK are jumping on the bandwagon. The “My Primary School is at the Museum” Project, conceived …
Improving Museum-School Partnerships
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Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. It is the start of another school year, and museums are partnering with …
My High School Is in a Museum
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Followers of this blog will know I am a huge fan of museum schools. TrendsWatch: Museums as Community Infrastructure, the most recent CFM report, devotes one chapter to exploring how …
Trendswatch: Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure
Blackbaud hosted the annual TrendsWatch webinar, this year focusing on Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure. Hear about how museums have stepped up to fill in the gaps for PreK-12 …
Trending Now: Museum Schools Part II
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week we followed up with Laney Tillner to learn more about her work with the John Early Museum Magnet Middle Prep–a museum school where she volunteers as a consultant. Laney …
How will museums be embedded in the school day of the future?
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Famous futurist quote: “The future is already here, it is just not equally distributed.” (William Gibson) In other words, hints of any plausible future already exist somewhere in the world …
My Primary School is at the Museum – Squaring the Circle
Greetings! This is Sage and I am excited to announce that we are reposting this great article because I am about to fly to Manchester, England to attend the Museum Association’s …
My Primary School is at the Museum – Squaring the Circle
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Alliance Blog
Just one year ago I felt I was still dreaming about the idea of running a proof of concept project to examine whether or not it could be a good idea to co-locate primary schools, or even …
“My Primary School is at the Museum…During the Pandemic”
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
One challenge facing communities around the globe is providing safe spaces where children can continue their education as normally as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, …
In the Pandemic a New Museum Charter School is Born
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
Over the past two years, the pandemic has prompted museums to experiment with new products and services to meet the needs of their communities. Some of these experiments have turned out to …
For Your Radar: The National Association of Museum Schools
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Center for the Future of Museums Blog
When invited to make a statement I’d like to be true in the future, I often offer a vision of America in which “any child can choose to go to school in a museum.” Today’s guest post by …