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What Are You Going to Build?: Creating a ‘Brighter World’ through International Exchange

By Alexandra Roe

We stood near the back of a crowded art room surrounded by mismatched couches and stools where students fresh out of class and/or work for the day were seated: one rummaging through her backpack, a few typing away on their smartphones, …
The power of applied data for museums

By Andrew Simnick

Dr. Andrew Simnick is Senior Vice President for Finance, Strategy, and Operations at The Art Institute of Chicago. Matthew W. Norris is Executive Director of Analytics at The Art Institute of Chicago.Since 2014, Andrew and Matthew have …
We Want You!: The Targeted Recruitment of Youth

By By Multiple Authors

The world is rapidly growing, becoming more interconnected and increasingly diverse. Diversity means many things, from gender equality, to racial and socioeconomic equity. Many cultural institutions have out-of-school-time classes, …
We must decolonize our museums!

By Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko

“Museums can be very painful sites for Native peoples, as they are intimately tied to the colonization process,” writes Ho-Chunk scholar Amy Lonetree. Reading this passage for the first time in 2012 stopped me in my tracks and forced me …
10 Easy Ways Museums Can Be More LGBTQ-friendly

By Katie Slivovsky

Have you ever been bothered by something, found co-workers who were bothered by the same thing, put your heads together, and made change happen? That’s pretty much how in 2010 we got Chicago Children’s Museum’s LGBTQ Inclusion initiative …
My Primary School is at the Museum – Squaring the Circle

By Wendy James

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 nurseries, with neighborhood museums. Collections …
Election 2016: What it means for museums

By Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied

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Building Cultural Empathy

By Dr. Jay Xu

Dr. Jay Xu is Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. As a passionate champion of Asian art and culture, Dr. Xu is committed to sharing his extensive knowledge of Asian art …
Transcripts and Captions for Digital Video

By jmorin

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Transcripts and Captions for Digital Video

By jmorin

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