Education & Interpretation

Exploring a Fragmented Future

The second installment of TrendsWatch 2018’s scenarios of 2040 is now up on the web for discussion and comment! Fragmentation is woven from some of the anxieties shared by museum people …

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

Amber Geary

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

Meg Nicoll

Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

Sonnet Takahisa

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

Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

How a Wave of Honest History Museums Is Changing Black Tourism

Ashton Lattimore, Slate

Meeting Teachers Where They Are

Meg Davis

Grant Opportunity: Museums & Creative Aging

Elizabeth Merritt

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

Michelle Knovic Smith

National Study Highlights That Visits to Science Centers Can Best Predict Youth and Adult Interest in Science

Study: Visits to science centers spark interest in science

Experience AZ, AZ Big Media

The subtlety of shepherding an audience toward collection visitation.

Shelley Bernstein, Medium

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The Art of Recovery: How a Radical Public Art Experiment Is Reshaping Sicily 50 Years After a Devastating Earthquake

Patricia Zohn, artnet News

Facing Change

On a recent day this summer, I left the colorful, urban interventions and crowded revelries of Manifesta 12 in Palermo, Sicily, and descended into the rural, arid Belice Valley. I was …

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Curatorial Practice

Since the start of the new millennium, there has been an increase in cross-collecting (sometimes called 'cross-over buying'). This might seem like a recent phenomenon according to what we …

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Attending Museum Conferences

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Global Thinking

Two years ago, in 2016, I had the opportunity to attend the AAM Annual Meeting in Washington DC, thanks to the Getty Leadership and Career Management Program Fellowship. Little did I know …