Improving Museum-School Partnerships

Category: 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 …

Moving Primary Schools into the Museum

Category: 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 …

Trending Now: “Museum Schools”

Category: 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 …

My High School Is in a Museum

Category: 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 …

Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure

Category: Education & Interpretation
Blackbaud will host the annual TrendsWatch webinar, focusing this year on Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure. Tune in to hear about how museums have stepped up to fill in the gaps …

Museums & Schools Summit

How can museums and schools collaborate to create meaningful learning experiences, foster creativity, and engage students? Join us for the Museums and Schools Summit, a two-day virtual …

Trendswatch: Museum Schools as Community Infrastructure

Category: On-Demand Programs: Education and Interpretation
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 …

How will museums be embedded in the school day of the future?

Category: 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…During the Pandemic”

Category: 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, …

Trending Now: Museum Schools Part II

Category: Center for the Future of Museums Blog
This week we followed up with LaneyTillner to learn more about her work with the John Early Museum Magnet Middle Prep–a museum school where she volunteers as a consultant. Laney is a …

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