Global Thinking

Reflections on the Museums Connect program and its impact in Ukraine

By Ksenya Kyrychenko

I’ve always felt that contemporary museums should help transform education, involve communities, and contribute to social inclusion, but wasn’t sure how this could be achieved in Ukraine. During the Museums Connect program, I met U.S. …
Girls Design the World

By Megan Lantz

How can teens play a role in solving some of the most urgent environmental issues of our time? That is one of the questions 42 girls from Minneapolis, Minnesota and Nairobi, Kenya considered through Girls Design the World, an international …
Heritage At Risk: Safeguarding Museums During Conflict

By Brian I. Daniels

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2016 issue of Museum magazine. Envisioning museums as part of an intellectual and professional community that crosses international borders. In recent years, the impact of outside …
Museum Studies As Soft Diplomacy: From Berkeley to Abu Dhabi

By Marjorie Schwarzer

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2011 edition of the Museum magazine. The night after my first day of teaching museum studies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I had a bizarre dream. The Emirati students with whom I had …
Where History Meets High Tech

By Amy Rogers Nazarov

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Introducing the latest MCCA grantees When representatives of two cultures are able to compare notes on their art, their histories, the struggles they …
“Connecting With The Story”: A conversation with author JULIA ALVAREZ

By Rina Rapuano

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Julia Alvarez may have only lived in the Dominican Republic from the age of 3 months through 10 years, but being born in the U.S. didn’t help when …