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Bridging Isolation: The Anchorage Museum’s Virtual Movement Workshops for Older Adults during COVID-19
On a Tuesday morning in July, older adults from across Southcentral Alaska danced to feel-good songs, including Bobby Darin’s “Splish Splash” and Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move,” from the comfort of their homes and … -
Mind the Accessibility Gap
When we talk about equity, diversity, and inclusion in museums, we have a usual list of groups we mention: Black and Indigenous people, other people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, unhoused people, socioeconomically disadvantaged people, and … -
Never Waste the Walls: What PK-12 Schools Can Learn from Museum Design
Generally speaking, children are much more enthusiastic about heading to a children’s museum than school, even though learning occurs in both places. Visit a children’s museum any day of the year and you can literally see their excitement … -
Will COVID-19 Change Museum Architecture?
Here’s a happy thought: COVID-19 will—at some point—recede, and like pandemics of the past it will be history, another story to tell. But after the disease is gone, will any of the effects linger, possibly even forever? People have … -
Essential Evaluators: The Silver Lining
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. This is a time of uncertain and unknown expectations … -
Pandemic-Friendly Ideas for Welcoming Immigrants and Refugees to Your Community
Welcoming Week is an annual event from Welcoming America that seeks to unite recent immigrants and refugees with longer residents in communities. Along with other organizations of all stripes, museums have been involved for years, hosting … -
Outside > Inside: Outdoor Exhibitions in the Era of COVID and Black Lives Matter
A doctor friend recently shared a social media post listing a five-point coronavirus plan: Masks Close bars Socially distance Test & isolate Outside > inside Like her, it was matter-of-fact, succinct, and assured. But the “Outside … -
Postcard Power! How Museums Can Support the Community through a Social Connecting Campaign
Earlier this year, as quarantine fell upon the US, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite contemporary art space the Momentary—both located in Bentonville, Arkansas—wanted to determine how best to help our region’s … -
How the Cincinnati Museum Center Reinvented Itself after Racial Justice Protests in 2001
Watching people of all ages, races, religions, and nationalities stand up for equality in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, my thoughts have drifted back to my time at the Cincinnati Museum Center. In 2001, just after I joined the CMC as … -
Essential Evaluators: In the Fog of War
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. This is a time of uncertain and unknown expectations …
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