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Empathy Interventions: Mia Experiments with Cultivating Empathy in Museum Visitors

By Alice Anderson & Karleen Gardner
Can the visual arts foster empathy and understanding? From our experiences as art museum educators, we believe they can, but there is little empirical research to support this theory. So, …

Do-it-Yourself Exhibits: How the National Museum of Natural History Created a New Model for Reaching People in Their Communities

By Kerri Dean
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Re-Engaging the Past to Re-Envision the Future

By Redell R. Hearn

With Rapid Response Collecting, Who Are We Responding To?

By Carol Ghiorsi Hart
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Netflix and Brooklyn Museum launch virtual exhibit The Queen and The Crown

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Postcard Power! How Museums Can Support the Community through a Social Connecting Campaign

By Erica Harmon
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How the Cincinnati Museum Center Reinvented Itself after Racial Justice Protests in 2001

By John E. Fleming, Ph.D.
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Apsáalooke exhibition at Field Museum avoids stereotypes, shows ‘Native Americans are still here.’

By Jade Yan, Chicago Sun-Times

How to Use Storytelling to Build and Engage Audiences

By Josette Souza
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How Chinese Museums Closed and Reopened During COVID-19

By Yiru Zhang
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An Opportunity to Listen as Our “Unheard” Project Becomes a Museum Installation

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Is That Hung White?

By Joanne Jones-Rizzi and Stacey Mann
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Pivoting to Virtual Field Trips and Education Programs: Advice from The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

By Mary Pat Higgins
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Category: Education & Interpretation
At The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, our mission is to teach history in order to impact behaviors today. With students in particular, we want them to encounter the history of …

Tell Congress: Include Museums in the Infrastructure Bill

By American Alliance of Museums
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Category: Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – May 12, 2021 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Tell Congress: Include Museums in the Infrastructure Bill Stay Informed: Strong Support in the House of Representatives …

The Pandemic Has These Vt. Students Going to School in a Museum

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Category: COVID-19

Billings Farm & Museum has welcomed their school district's 6th grade classes into their museum to allow the return of in-person learning.

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