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“My Primary School is at the Museum…During the Pandemic”

By Elizabeth Merritt

One challenge facing communities around the globe is providing safe spaces where children can continue their education as normally as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK, Labour party leader Keir Starmer recently called for …
Chris Newell: First Wabanaki Leader of the Abbe Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

Ian Elsner describes Museum Archipelago (@museum_go on Twitter) as “a tiny podcast guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums.” As a devoted follower of the podcast, I was delighted when Ian recently interviewed Chris Newell, the …
“Pay As You Stay” – an alternative pricing model for museums?

By Elizabeth Merritt

This year’s TrendsWatch cites buy-ahead pricing as one tool for enhancing revenue and managing attendance. In today’s guest post, Managing Director Tom Schoessler tells us how the Weserburg Museum tried flipping that model, charging …
How Museums Can Help Increase Voter Registration

By Caitlin Donnelly

Every election year, millions of Americans find themselves unable to vote because they miss a registration deadline, do not update their registration, or are unsure how to register. Our democracy suffers because of this, when participation …
Creating Vibrant Programs for Older Adults

By Delano Wood

It is a particular pleasure to hear from kindred spirits in creative aging who have been keeping up with our Ad Summa blogs. One such person is the indefatigable Delano Wood from DOROT in New York City. When he contacted me about his …
From a Teacher: How to make your museum field trips ones to remember for students and staff

By Claudia Bartow

“That was an awesome field trip!” “That place was so much fun.” These are the statements you want to hear from students after a field trip. As an eighteen-year veteran teacher who has escorted young people on dozens of field trips, I can …
Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists

By Michael Berlucchi

As I noted in TrendsWatch 2017, museums’ communities are being buffeted by the economic, cultural, and political fallout from current inequities in the justice system. Increasingly, museums are being called on to play a role in addressing …
Designing an AI Voice for the Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is the second of two posts exploring IRIS+, an AI chatbot at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In part one, Daniel Morena, founder and creative technologist at of 32Bits, described the program, how it operates, and how …
So, What Do You Do? Meet some museum professionals with 21st-century jobs.

By Gail Ravnitzky Silberglied

This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Museum magazine. Who could have foreseen—just two decades ago—that museums would one day employ game designers, digitization specialists, or social media managers? New …
Cafeteria Connections: Some food for thought and thought for food

By Jessica B. Harris

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2015 edition of the Museum magazine. We have become a nation of food-obsessed individuals. A glance at television’s offerings reveals that we revel in watching food competitions where …