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A Season of Kindness
Much like museums, my daughter’s school distributes a quarterly calendar at which I typically glance to note important dates like the ubiquitous school closings, PTA meetings, and volunteer opportunities. The new calendar, however, caught … -
Making it all about Them: the New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Apprenticeship Program
Each year AAM’s Education Committee (EdCom) Professional Network recognizes outstanding museum educators and supporters, programs and resources that exemplify excellence. The 2018 Award of Excellence in Programming was received by the New … -
Task Force Tackles Dearth of Resources for Transgender Museum Professionals
Co-chairs Anna Woten and Alison Kennedy discuss the Taskforce for Transgender Inclusion and developing resources for transitioning museum professionals, their coworkers, and allies. Anna Woten (Anna): Let’s introduce ourselves. Alison … -
Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration
Fourth and fifth graders at Silverton Elementary School reversed roles with teachers and set an example of how museums and schools can work together to broaden the telling of a community’s history. The students uncovered the forgotten … -
Unpacking Our Understanding of Immersion
When Rob Stein, AAM’s Executive Vice President & Chief Program Officer, first approached the AAM Media and Technology Professional Network with the announcement that AAM and the Knight Foundation were planning to hold a series of … -
What Mexican bugs have to do with Italian Paintings: How digital tools can be used to explore complex connections
How is a red bug from Mexico so deeply tied to the representation of papal power in the late-1400s? First some background. It all starts with small red bugs, called cochineal, that live on cacti. They were first discovered by the Aztec and … -
Simple Ways Museums Can Use Content Marketing to Engage Their Audiences (and Attract New Ones)
Most foodies are familiar with the concept of Michelin starred restaurants. If you’re not, The Michelin Guide is revered by food-centric travelers and ambitious chefs stake their entire careers on receiving one, two, or the most-coveted, … -
Small Museums Go Big
The November/December 2018 issue of Museum magazine focuses on small museums. We asked our Small Museum Administrators Committee to submit some examples of small museums doing innovative or interesting things with little resources. Below … -
Learning Cultural Competence
Read the stories of three institutions that grew their capacity for diversity and inclusion via the Cultural Competence Learning Institute: The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY; the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the Cincinnati Muse… -
A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh
With the arrival of a new director and CEO in 2016, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco expanded its largely encyclopedic approach to art history by introducing a curatorial department dedicated to collecting and presenting contemporary …
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