What makes K-12 public school educators choose to use a museum as part of their curriculum?
In 2013, I became the Museum Educator for the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, a 200-year-old Liberal Arts college nestled in the foothills of Central New York. I was excited to welcome the throngs of eager K–12 school groups to …
Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
This is the third in a series of posts publicizing Aroha Philanthropy’s call for proposals for Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums, funding the development and implementation of high quality, intensive arts learning opportunities for active …
Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum
The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. Today’s guest post is by Sonnet Takahisa, …
Meeting Teachers Where They Are
As an elementary school teacher in New York City, I LOVED field trips. In my final year of teaching, I was lucky enough to find a school that not only encouraged them but purposely made “experiential learning” part of the curriculum. My …
Grant Opportunity: Museums & Creative Aging
Aroha Philanthropies has just released a call for proposals to museums interested in participating in its new Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums initiative. The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha and Lifetime Arts to usher a museum cohort …
What It Takes to Engage Teachers with Digital Museum Resources: Five Lessons Learned
Wherever you are on the journey to digitize museum collections, there are questions to address regarding who will use these millions of digital assets, and how. Teachers and their students seem to be obvious audiences, but what does it …
Museums are More than a Year-End Field Trip
Prepared Remarks of Laura L. Lott President & CEO of the American Alliance of Museums Opening General Session of the 2018 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo May 7, 2018 Good morning AAMers! A few weeks ago, I took my now 5-year-old …
EdComversations 2.0
“Who dares to teach, must never cease to learn.”–John Cotton Dana In March, the EdCom Professional Network is launching a new format for our EdComversations. If you haven’t joined us for one in the past, the idea is pretty simple. Get a …
Who Will Tell My Story?
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Museum magazine. Educate, Engage, Elevate! Museums on the Rise—that’s the theme of the 2018 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo, May 6–9 in Phoenix, Arizona. And the …
Cultivating Lifelong Appreciation
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Museum magazine. A look at teen programs that are preparing the next generation of museum visitors, staff, and supporters Here’s a sight every museum professional has …
