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American Alliance of Museums Empanels Education Task Force

By Joseph Klem
The Alliance has empaneled a task force to examine whether educational philosophies should be articulated as one of the  core documents that museums maintain to ensure professional …

The Citizenship Project

Samantha Rijkers, Citizenship Project Manager, New-York Historical Society
By Samantha Rijkers

‘Art Rx’: museum tours linked to easing chronic pain

By Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper

Exploring a Fragmented Future

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By Elizabeth Merritt

What makes K-12 public school educators choose to use a museum as part of their curriculum?

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By Amber Geary

Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

By Meg Nicoll

Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

By Sonnet Takahisa

50 years later, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch emerges with a new name and a skeptical view of western expansion

By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism

By Ashton Lattimore, Slate

Meeting Teachers Where They Are

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By Meg Davis

Grant Opportunity: Museums & Creative Aging

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By Elizabeth Merritt

What It Takes to Engage Teachers with Digital Museum Resources: Five Lessons Learned

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By Michelle Knovic Smith
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The Joker in the Museum Planning Pack

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By Elizabeth Merritt
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
The fourth and final installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of the future is now up on the web. Wild Times explores what might happen if fate deals our field an unexpected card: the …

Wild Times: In which social service nonprofits save the day.

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By Elizabeth Merritt
Category: Future Forecasting
Introduction to This Scenario A wild card scenario explores the kind of low-probability, high-impact event that can disrupt the best-laid plans. Though you shouldn’t obsess about these …

A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh

By Linda Butler and Jennifer Sonderby
Category: Mission & Institutional Planning
With the arrival of a new director and CEO in 2016, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco expanded its largely encyclopedic approach to art history by introducing a curatorial department …