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It Is Time to Include AANHPIs In Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Efforts

By Edward Tepporn
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Over the past year, we have all witnessed the increasing acts of hate and violence against Asian Americans, particularly against women and the elderly. Some have tried to cast these …

In Baltimore, the Walters Art Museum confronts the Confederate history of its founders

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Museum specimens could help fight the next pandemic – why preserving collections is crucial to future scientific discoveries

By Jocelyn P. Colella, Bryan McLean, The Conversation

With Rapid Response Collecting, Who Are We Responding To?

By Carol Ghiorsi Hart
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Baltimore Museum to Sell 3 Blue-Chip Paintings to Advance Equity

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Building True, Lasting Collaborations with Source Communities

By Meredith Schweitzer
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Brooklyn Museum to Sell 12 Works as Pandemic Changes the Rules

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Open-Air Exhibit Features Hopeful Stories for Trying Times

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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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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
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Pivoting to Virtual Field Trips and Education Programs: Advice from The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

By Mary Pat Higgins
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Category: Education & Interpretation
At The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, our mission is to teach history in order to impact behaviors today. With students in particular, we want them to encounter the history of …

Tell Congress: Include Museums in the Infrastructure Bill

By American Alliance of Museums
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Category: Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – May 12, 2021 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Tell Congress: Include Museums in the Infrastructure Bill Stay Informed: Strong Support in the House of Representatives …

The Pandemic Has These Vt. Students Going to School in a Museum

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Category: COVID-19

Billings Farm & Museum has welcomed their school district's 6th grade classes into their museum to allow the return of in-person learning.

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