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Curatorial Dreaming in the Age of COVID-19

By Erica Lehrer and Shelley Ruth Butler
The Museums and Equity in Times of Crisis series explores how museums can center diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the decisions and plans they make for weathering the …

How the Anchorage Museum is Telling the Story of Climate Change

By Julie Decker
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What Can Data Teach Us About Museum Collections?

By Diana Greenwald
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A Small Museum’s Rapid Response Collecting Project for COVID-19

By Anne Raymond

Quantifying a Commitment to Representation

By Matthew McLendon
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Why We’re Covering the Opioid Crisis at the Indiana State Museum

By Cathy Ferree
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Silent No More: The new Lucy Burns Museum speaks to the centennial of suffrage

By Karin McKie
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Kayne Davis, 13, helps curate Mia photography show

By Zac Farber, Southwest Journal

Making Space for Community Partners

By Ravon Ruffin
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Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty.

By Arlene Hirst, Nytimes

Forging Deeper Connections

By Redmond J. Barnett, Elisa Phelps, Jennifer Schantz, and Pam Schwartz

Curators Take Flight: Four curators cast a wide eye on the shifting landscape for curatorial practice

By American Alliance of Museums
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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 …

Key Takeaways for Museum Education at #AAMvirtual

By Reema Ghazi, Reggie Lynch, Mickey Maley, Meriel Stokoe
Category: Education & Interpretation
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 …

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 …

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