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Key Takeaways for Museum Education at #AAMvirtual

By Reema Ghazi, Reggie Lynch, Mickey Maley, Meriel Stokoe
The theme of the Virtual Annual Meeting—Radical Reimagining—was already poignant in the context of the field’s reckoning with the impacts of COVID-19, but became even more so in the midst …

The Phillips Collection’s Plan for Advancing Racial Equity

By Makeba Clay
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Museums in Service to Society: A Museum in Colombia Responds to the Needs of its Community During the Pandemic

By Isabel Dapena and Armando Perla

Going Off-Script: How can museums use their galleries to create more inclusive communities?

By Jason Porter, Theresa Sotto, and Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell 

Racism, Unrest, and the Role of the Museum Field

By American Alliance of Museums
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Social Distancing Doesn’t Need to Equal Social Isolation for Older Adults

By Shannon McDonough
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Now Is the Time to Rebuild a Better Museum Field

By Laura Lott

The Rubin Museum of Art’s #MuseumFromHome Strategy: A Meditative Offering

By Joseph O'Neill

Lessons Learned from SARS (and Strikes) at the Ontario Science Center

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Curatorial Dreaming in the Age of COVID-19

By Erica Lehrer and Shelley Ruth Butler

How the Anchorage Museum is Telling the Story of Climate Change

By Julie Decker
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Introducing the Museum Distance Learning Repository

By Sarah Jencks
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Staying in Touch: Addressing Concerns to Allow Tactile Exploration at Museums

By Cheryl Fogle-Hatch, Ann Cunningham, and Matt Gesualdi
Category: Accessibility
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating new norms that discourage touching all manner of objects to curtail the spread of the virus. However, when public spaces reopen, understandable concern …

How to Stay Informed While Staying Sane

By Elizabeth Merritt
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Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I sometimes joke that my animal avatar is a Whale Shark, because it’s my job to trawl the ocean of news every day, filtering masses of content in search of nutritious bits to share with the …

Congress to Consider Pandemic Relief Funding and FY 2021 Appropriations; Invite Congress to Visit Your Museum 2020

By American Alliance of Museums
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Category: Advocacy Alert
Support Field-Wide Advocacy for Museum Relief: The current crisis is taking a distressing financial toll on cultural organizations, and AAM is no different. In these challenging times, we …

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