What Can Medical Students Learn from the Art History of Epidemics?
It is an unusual feeling as a medieval art specialist for my subject to suddenly feel globally significant. I suspect some of my colleagues in Renaissance art feel this as well. For those of us who have studied art created after the Black …
How Museums Can Generate Revenue Through Digital Content and Virtual Experiences
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic forced museums of all kinds to close their doors, many have responded by shifting their attention to engaging audiences through virtual and remote channels. Through social media initiatives, virtual tours, …
Digital Gold: Queering Flat Spaces
As museums address issues of access to collections, galleries, and education during COVID-19, many have chosen to shift to a digital space to connect with the public and continue their missions as community and cultural institutions. As a …
How to Use Storytelling to Build and Engage Audiences
As far as museums go, the National Geographic Museum is unlike any other. With access to over 130 years’ worth of photos, footage, data, and archival materials—plus a built-in audience already hooked on the National Geographic …
Key Takeaways for Museum Education at #AAMvirtual
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 of nationwide protests against police brutality and …
What Museum Education Students Learned at #AAMvirtual
With the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo transitioning to a virtual format this year, a new crop of colleagues was able to attend, participate, and share their reactions on social media. Among these were students in the Museum …
#AAMvirtual General Session: Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole and Anthony Salcito
This AAM Virtual Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo general session took place on May 18, 2020. Speakers: Laura Lott, President & CEO at American Alliance of Museums Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, President & National Chair of the National …
Curatorial Dreaming in the Age of COVID-19
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 COVID-19 pandemic. In this edition, professors and …
How the Anchorage Museum is Telling the Story of Climate Change
As the world faces the unprecedented in climate crisis and pandemics, museums are more important than ever for facilitating essential human connection and meaning-making. As a result of these crises, human lifeways and ecosystems will be …
Introducing the Museum Distance Learning Repository
When our institutions shut their doors for the foreseeable future just over a month ago, museum educators did what they do best. That is to say, we pivoted. Across the continent—and around the world—those of us who spend our days designing …
