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Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
The Power of Global Partnerships: The Value of Dialogue and Understanding Different Cultures
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2017 issue of Museum magazine. It is difficult to imagine two partner museums with more different historical and cultural milieus …
Access For All: How three museums pushed the boundaries of accessibility to connect with wider audiences.
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2017 issue of Museum magazine. For more than 25 years, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a watershed piece of civil rights …
The Question of Gender: The “Unseen” Problem in Museum Workplaces
Joan Baldwin is Curator of Special Collections at The Hotchkiss School. Why is it important? Because for too long women–and more recently those openly identifying as women–have experienced …
Tools and Resources in the Wake of Charlottesville
First, let me state how proud I am to work in a field where museums and other institutions (AAM included) publicly denounce hatred and bigotry. Simply knowing there are places that offer …
Where Do Generation X Museum Professionals Fit In?
I distinctly remember being at a museum conference about 10 years ago, when I was a department manager but not yet at the senior level, and scanning the program to figure out where I fit …
Generational Inclusion: Shattering Stereotypes and Challenging Assumptions
This article originally appeared in Informal Learning Review (ILR) No. 144, May/June 2017. A copyrighted publication of Informal Learning Experiences, Inc. Reprinted with permission. My …
Watch Featured Speaker Haben Girma from the 2017 Annual Meeting
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Museopunks Episode 21: The “Outsiders” Edition
Since the 1960s, artists have been critically examining the practices of museums, at times critiquing the idea of what a museum is and how it presents its stories. One of the most …
The Portal: A Real-Time Conversation with People Forced to Flee Violence
In TrendsWatch 2017 I highlight Shared Studio’s Portals in the chapter on Empathy. These bi-directional video walls host virtual “face-to-face” conversations between people around the …
Think of a Time When You Didn’t Feel Welcome
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2017 issue of Museum magazine. There is not a museum, zoo, aquarium, historic site, or other cultural institution that does not have …
Excellence and Equity at 25: Then, Now, Next
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2017 issue of Museum magazine. The lasting legacy—and future implications— of AAM’s landmark 1992 publication. Diversity. Equity. …
Converting Family into Fans: How the Contemporary Jewish Museum expanded its reach to a new audience.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Since its founding in 1984, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) had been in a 2,500-square-foot space in …